Neil Patrick Harris Joins ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive

Neil Patrick Harris is ready to affix Nicolas Cage in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” at Lionsgate.

Harris will play Cage’s expertise agent within the upcoming action-comedy. Additional forged members embody Pedro Pascal, which TheWrap first reported, Tiffany Haddish and Sharon Horgan.

“The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent” stars Cage as a fictionalized model of himself. Creatively unfulfilled and dealing with monetary smash, he accepts a $1 million provide to attend the party of a brilliant fan (Pascal). When issues take a wildly harmful flip, Cage is pressured to dwell as much as his personal legend, channeling his most iconic on-screen characters as a way to save himself and his family members. With a profession constructed for this very second, the Academy Award-winning actor should tackle the function of a lifetime: himself.

The movie is at the moment in manufacturing and being directed by Tom Gormican from a screenplay by Gormican and Kevin Etten. Kevin Turen, Kristin Burr and Mike Nilon are producing. The venture is overseen at Lionsgate by James Myers and Brady Fujikawa. Lionsgate’s Robert Melnik negotiated the deal on behalf of the studio.

Neil Patrick Harris will subsequent be seen within the fourth untitled “Matrix” movie reverse Keanu Reeves, in addition to the restricted collection “It’s a Sin” for Channel four and HBO Max. The five-time Emmy winner most not too long ago starred as Count Olaf in Netflix’s “A Series of Unfortunate Events.”

Harris is repped by CAA, Untitled Entertainment and The Lede Company.