That Wild-Sounding Nicolas Cage Movie Gets A New Release Date

The upcoming Nicolas Cage movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, which stars Cage as himself in what sounds like a totally over-the-top story, has a new release date.

It'll be released on April 22, 2022, it's been announced (via Collider). The film was previously expected to be released in March 2021, but that time has come and gone.

Cage plays himself and gets mixed up with a drug kingpin and later becomes an informant for the CIA. In the movie, Cage is suffering through debt and a strained relationship with his daughter. He's also trying to get a role in a new Quentin Tarantino movie. To make some cash, Cage takes money from a Mexican billionaire, played by Pedro Pascal, for an appearance at his birthday party.

Cage becomes friends with the billionaire, but then a CIA operative played by Tiffany Haddish tells him that he's actually a drug cartel kingpin. Not only that, but this man kidnapped the daughter of a Mexican presidential nominee. The CIA then recruits Cage to become an informant.

Cage is getting paid big money for this new movie, as a report said he is expected to earn a payday in the range of what he was making for the National Treasure series and Con Air.

In addition to The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Cage is set to appear in the movie Pig, which sees the actor playing a truffle hunter with a massive beard.