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The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent have revealed that Daniel Day-Lewis was once in line to play Nicolas Cage in the new film.The movie sees Cage play a fictionalised version of himself alongside the likes of Pedro Pascal and Tiffany Haddish, who portray different characters to their actual selves.Writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten have opened up about early struggles getting the film made, with Cage initially hesitant to take on the role of playing himself.“We were told that Nick has done these projects before and he’s not wild about Nick as Nick,” Etten recalled to The Hollywood Reporter. “And we weren’t two guys who had a huge body of work that you could point to and be like, ‘No, trust us.’“We knew that we needed to have a real offer to go along with the script.

Christmas Day 2025 is bulking up in regards to product. In the wake of Lionsgate dating the Paul Feig directed Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried thriller, The Housemaid and A24 with their Timothee Chalamet ping-pong champ movie Marty Supreme, Sony is darting their reimagined comedy Anaconda starring Paul Rudd and Jack Black.

EXCLUSIVE: After landing Paul Rudd and Jack Black to star, the new Anaconda pic at Sony Pictures is building on its ensemble as Road House star Daniela Melchior is set to join the cast on the new take of the 90s cult classic. The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten penned the script, with Gormican planning to direct. Brad Fuller and Andrew Form are producing through Fully Formed banner.

Jack Black and Paul Rudd are reportedly in talks to star in a new “reimagining” of the 1990s cult creature feature Anaconda.The original Anaconda (1997) was savaged by critics and picked up a number of Golden Raspberry Awards. Despite that, it went on to become a cult classic and made enough money (gross $136.8 million worldwide) to establish a franchise, with Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004), Anaconda 3: Offspring (2008), Anacondas: Trail of Blood (2009) and Lake Placid v. Anaconda (2015) all following.Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Jon Voight, Erik Stoltz, Danny Trejo and Owen Wilson all starred in the original film, which followed a documentary film crew in the Amazon that comes across an obsessed hunter looking to find a legendary anaconda.Now, as per The Hollywood Reporter, a new version of the film is set to go into production, with Tom Gormican (The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent) set to direct, as well as to write the screenplay alongside Kevin Etten.The story of the new film is said to revolve around a group of mid-life crisis-stricken friends who decide to remake one of their favourite movies and head into the rainforest, where Mother Nature has other plans for them.It was reported back in 2020 that Anaconda might be getting the reboot treatment, with Evan Daugherty, writer of Tomb Raider and Snow White and the Huntsman, being attached as a writer at the time.Black recently starred in Borderlands, a film that tanked at the box office and with critics, and is now headed to home streaming just three weeks after its theatrical release.Rudd, meanwhile, was one of the stars of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, which NME awarded four stars, and said it “ultimately succeeds because it’s so much fun to

Angelique Jackson Jack Black and Paul Rudd are in early talks to star in Columbia Pictures’ re-imagining of “Anaconda” from writer-director Tom Gormican. Gormican, who helmed the Nicolas Cage-starring meta movie “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” and penned “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” co-wrote and will direct the new “Anaconda” movie, which is said to put a more comedic spin on the serpentine story. Kevin Etten is the co-writer.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor SPOILER WARNING: This story mentions major spoilers for “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” now streaming on Netflix. Axel Foley is back in Beverly Hills, and so is Eddie Murphy. “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F” director Mark Molloy set out to make a film with the same feeling and tone as the 1984 classic “Beverly Hills Cop” and its 1987 sequel, “Beverly Hills Cop 2.” He calls the latest film in the franchise, “My love letter to the first two films.” Molloy recruited Jahmin Assa, the film’s production designer, to pay tribute to those earlier chapters in numerous ways.

It is hard to believe it has been 40 years since Eddie Murphy first exploded onto the screen as one of his signature characters, Axel Foley, in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop. But even if that 22 year old is now 63, he is still on the beat and doesn’t miss a beat all these years later in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, almost seeming to have stopped time with this character who is just as funny, sharp and entertaining as ever.

EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute has named the participants and projects selected for the 2023 edition of its Episodic Lab, taking place at the Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah from November 3–7. The list includes Daniela Bailes (The Letters), Elaine Hsieh Chou (Get Home Safe),Marissa Díaz (Cochinas), Sam Dunnewold (Guts), Laurie Hartung (Rabbit Hole), Farah Merani (The Painted Muse), Sylvia-Anne Parker (Blackbirds), and Hernando Cortes Watson (Horsepower).

Daniel Day-Lewis has made a rare public appearance this week at the premiere of his wife’s new film.The actor, who retired after his last film, Phantom Thread, was in attendance at the premiere with his wife Rebecca Miller, for the unveiling of her new film, She Came To Me. The couple were also joined by their son, Ronan.The new film is a romantic comedy and stars Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage, and Marisa Tomei.It’s been four years since Day-Lewis has made a formal public appearance.Reflecting on his decision to retire in 2017, Day-Lewis said: “All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting…it was something I had to do.”Day-Lewis is the only actor to have won three Oscars for acting, taking home awards for My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln.In other Day-Lewis news, the filmmakers behind The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent have revealed that the actor was once in line to play Nicolas Cage in the film.The movie sees Cage play a fictionalised version of himself alongside the likes of Pedro Pascal and Tiffany Haddish, who portray different characters to their actual selves.Writers Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten have opened up about early struggles getting the film made, with Cage initially hesitant to take on the role of playing himself.“There were times when I think I, more than Tom, was trying to talk myself into other ideas,” Etten said.

Nicolas Cage was revealed to have almost not played himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent during an interview with the feature's writers that was published by The Hollywood Reporter on Friday.Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten, who co-wrote the project's screenplay, discussed several aspects of the film's production process during their sit-down with the media outlet.The filmmakers made a point of expressing that they initially expected that the movie's 58-year-old star would be apprehensive about the project as a whole. High stakes: Nicolas Cage was revealed to have almost not played himself in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent during an interview with the feature's writer that was published by The Hollywood Reporter on FridayEtten recalled that 'we were told that Nick has done these projects before and he's not wild about Nick as Nick.

Nicolas Cage almost didn’t play Nicolas Cage in his new movie, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Superstar actor Nicholas Cage is back on the big screen with new meta-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. And this time the cultural phenomenon is starring in the role he was born to play - himself.

Watching the new action comedy  The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent in which Nicolas Cage plays a fictionalized version of , well, Nicolas Cage, I kept thinking that if  director Tom Gormican didn’t get him to agree to do this film which depends on audience recognition of a genuine action star, he could have easily gone to Mel Gibson or Bruce Willis. They would have been fine fulfilling the amusing premise, but Cage, as he usually does, goes all out, even over the top at times, and gives this the kind of sharp edge only he can. It also helps, since this is basically a comedy, that Cage’s manic timing (as in Honeymoon In Vegas for one) really works in making the best lines in Gormican and co-writer Kevin Etten’s script work, especially the inside industry jokes peppered throughout.