“What’s happening to me?” : Nicolas Cage memes boosted his new movie with a crazy pitch

Following the premiere of Dicks: The Musical , another A24 production debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday: Christopher Borgle’s dream script, a horror comedy, ode and self-satire from Oscar winner Nicolas Cage. .

As Deadline reports, at the premiere of the film – which was followed by a standing ovation – Nicolas Cage He spoke on stage and revealed A dream scenario was one of the few projects in his career that he knew he had to do after reading his script for “The Perfect Page” – the other films being Arizona Rising, Kiss the Vampire and Leaving Las Vegas.

The film tells the story of Paul Matthews, an extraordinary professor who begins to appear in other people’s dreams, both sexually and violently. Matthews then became something of a social media sensation — and that was something Nicolas Cage He could identify perfectly, as he explained.

“Well, in the name of Thespis, it wasn’t gambling at all, please! I felt like I had experience with it. What happened to me… I was the first actor to wake up one morning after someone posted a montage of me breaking down and raging, from various movies. I think the title was ‘Nicolas Cage Loses His Fear’. And then, overnight, it went viral all over the world, and I was looking at it and thinking, what’s happening to me?“

The actor added that the video “continued to grow exponentially” and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

“I sat there and it became memes, with photoshop and t-shirts, and I thought, “I have to put this somewhere.” Then I read the dream script and thought, “Yeah, now I can turn this into gold!”“

The film also stars Michael Cera and Julianne Nicholson.

Dream Scenario opens in theaters in the US on November 10. The film does not yet have a release date in France.

Watch Dream Scenario’s standing ovation at the Toronto International Film Festival.