New Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent Trailer Emphasizes A New Nicolas Cage Bromance

Lionsgate Films has released a new trailer for The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent. The film is due in theaters on April 22.

In what promises to be a peak Nicolas Cage movie, Cage plays a heightened version of himself as Nick Cage--a respected though washed-up and debt-saddled actor who gets mixed up with a drug kingpin and later becomes an informant for the CIA. Unlike previous trailers, this new trailer emphasizes the burgeoning, legitimate bromance between Cage and the drug kingpin, who is played by Pedro Pascal. Their meeting winds up coming at particular low personal points for each, which are quickly turned around by their mutual respect and fast friendship. The CIA, which is already monitoring the kingpin, witnesses Cage getting closer to him, and tasks the actor with the ultimate acting challenge--maintain the friendship, steal evidence, and then kill his new best friend.

Cage said in an interview last summer that he "will never see this movie" because it was made "for the audience… it's too much for me to go to the premiere and sit there with everybody. Psychologically, that's too bizarre and whacked out for me."

The actor was recently cast as Dracula in the upcoming monster movie Renfield, alongside Nicolas Hoult as the titular henchman and Awkwafina. Cage also previously played a literary critic who believed he was a vampire in the 1989 horror-comedy Vampire's Kiss.

Cage is continuing to build momentum off the strongest reviews and buzz for many years, following his role in this year's acclaimed drama Pig. At age 58, the actor said in an interview this September that he will never retire.

In an interview earlier this year, Cage discussed how he lives with a disrespectful pet crow named Hoogan.