<p>Celebrities continued sharing touching tributes to Elvis Presley&#8217;s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, in the wake of her death after she went into cardiac arrest Thursday. She was 54.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lisa-marie-presley-daughter-of-elvis-presley-dead-at-54?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=conservnewsd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Presley&#8217;s</a> mother, Priscilla, shared the devastating news in a Thursday statement. &#8220;My beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us. She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment,&#8221; she said in a statement.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lisa-marie-presley-daughter-of-elvis-on-life-support-in-critical-condition-after-cardiac-arrest-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Presley&#8217;s</a> ex-husband, actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nicolas-cage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicolas Cage</a>, joined stars like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kid-rock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kid Rock</a>, John Travolta, and many others to remember the musician after learning about the death of the star. Presley&#8217;s daughter will be buried next to her late son, Benjamin, at Graceland, a rep for the late star&#8217;s daughter, actor Riley Keough, shared with the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/at-elvis-graceland-fans-visit-to-mourn-lisa-marie-presley/2023/01/13/00fb4b64-9363-11ed-90f8-53661ac5d9b9_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Associated Press</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Lisa [Marie Presley] had the greatest laugh of anyone I ever met,&#8221; Cage told The <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/lisa-marie-presley-dead-hollywood-tributes-1235298556/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Reporter</a>. &#8220;She lit up every room.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I find some solace believing she is reunited with her son, Benjamin,&#8221; he added, referencing the late-singer&#8217;s son who died by suicide in 2020, <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/01/13/nicolas-cage-reacts-to-ex-wife-lisa-marie-presleys-death/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Page Six</a> noted.</p>
<p>Kid Rock shared a message on his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnXLw9IukkM/?igshid=ZmMyNmFmZTc%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">social media</a> that read, &#8220;There is not enough love to share for Lisa Marie. Please pray for her, her children, and family. Only god knows why. Bobby &#8211; Kid Rock.&#8221;</p>
<p>Travolta posted a throwback photo of her on his <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnVsLbLrpqM/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=43747981-14c9-4a81-87d3-12078fea8af8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a> and wrote simply, &#8220;Lisa baby girl, I&#8217;m so sorry. I&#8217;ll miss you but I know I&#8217;ll see you again. My love and heart goes out to Riley, Priscilla, Harper and Finley.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tom-hanks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tom Hanks</a> and his wife actress Rita Wilson called the news of her passing heartbreaking.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are heartbroken over the loss of Lisa Marie Presley,&#8221; Hanks captioned his post on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnWD5veLUo_/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>. &#8220;Absolutely broken … Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson.&#8221;</p>
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<p>&#8220;Our hearts are broken with the sudden and shocking passing of Lisa Marie Presley tonight,&#8221; Wilson captioned her post on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnVtipKL-cz/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=58a36087-1c28-4a19-a023-409671b62449" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Instagram</a>. &#8220;Tom and I had spent some time with the family during the Elvis movie promotional tour. Lisa Marie was so honest and direct, vulnerable, in a state of anticipation about the movie.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;She spoke so eloquently about her father, what the movie meant to her, that it was a celebration of her dad,&#8221; she added. &#8220;She had her gorgeous daughters Finley and Harper with her who made us all laugh. She privately showed us her home, Graceland, and she made it feel like home to us &#8230; A mother should never have to lose a child. Lisa Marie lost her precious son Benjamin, Priscilla loses her only daughter. It’s too much. Sending love to the family, prayers for peace and strength. Love, Rita and Tom.&#8221;</p>
<p>And they weren&#8217;t the only ones offering tributes, others included country singer LeAnn Rimes, pop singer Pink, and more.</p>
<p>&#8220;Lisa marie presley … how heartbreaking,&#8221; Rimes tweeted. &#8220;I hope she is at peace in her dad&#8217;s arms. My heart goes out to her family. Too much grief in just a couple of years. #riplisamarie #LisaMariePresley.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">lisa marie presley… how heartbreaking. i hope she is at peace in her dad’s arms. my heart goes out to her family. too much grief in just a couple of years. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/riplisamarie?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#riplisamarie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LisaMariePresley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LisaMariePresley</a></p>
<p>&mdash; leann rimes cibrian (@leannrimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/leannrimes/status/1613718776771661824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>&#8220;Oh, this one hurts my heart,&#8221; Pink captioned her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CnVsq6Arbwy/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;ig_rid=cc4f7448-9bd7-49a0-9657-53ea14425ad1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>. &#8220;Lisa Marie, you were one of a kind. Funny as s***, smart as a whip, sensitive, talented, witty, mean, loving, generous, judgmental but always right, loyal, and you adored your children. My heart breaks for you and your beautiful family and your children. The world lost a rare gem today. May your soul rest in peace, friend.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">So sad that we’ve lost another bright star in Lisa Marie Presley.  My condolences to her loved ones and multitude of fans.</p>
<p>&mdash; octavia spencer (@octaviaspencer) <a href="https://twitter.com/octaviaspencer/status/1613724060739080194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">ANOTHER PERSON I SHARED DEEP EMOTION WITH HAS PASSED AWAY! THIS IS SO SAD &amp; SHOCKING! LISA &amp; I SPENT HRS ON THE PHONE AS SHE WAS DIVORCING MJ, HER SON BEN WAS LIKE A LITTLE BROTHER 2 ME, SO MUCH LOSS, SO MUCH TRAGEDY N THEIR FAMILY, MY ❤️IS W THE PRESLEYS! <a href="https://t.co/bWsiJ33lGX">https://t.co/bWsiJ33lGX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) <a href="https://twitter.com/Corey_Feldman/status/1613724125276651521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Superstar Nicolas Cage shot down the idea that fans will ever see him in a &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; project and explained that he&#8217;s a &#8220;trekkie&#8221; and his place is on the deck of the Star Trek Enterprise.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nicolas-cage">59-year-old</a> actor responded to the idea — which was floated by his former costar Pedro Pascal — after the Disney+ &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; star said he wanted to bring Cage into the famed &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; universe, <a href="https://variety.com/2023/film/news/nicolas-cage-rejects-star-wars-for-star-trek-1235482216/">Variety</a> reported.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not really down,&#8221; Cage <a href="https://twitter.com/djkevlar/status/1611515865165619201?s=20&amp;t=9ippK7HnQZzwlZmbQbhFbA">explained</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Trekkie, man. I&#8217;m on the Star Trek Enterprise. That&#8217;s where I roll.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not in the &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; family,&#8221; the superstar actor added. &#8220;I&#8217;m in the &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; family.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nicolas Cage in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/StarWars?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#StarWars</a>? Not going to happen: “I’m not really down. I’m a Trekkie, man. I’m on the Star Trek Enterprise. That’s where I roll&#8230;I’m not in the ‘Star Wars’ family. I’m in the ‘Star Trek’ family.” <a href="https://t.co/XAb8A7Utnr">https://t.co/XAb8A7Utnr</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href="https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1612493527342096384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>The &#8220;Ghost Rider&#8221; star explained how he &#8220;grew up watching [William] Shatner&#8221; and thought the new generation of actors in the &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; franchise like Chris Pine were &#8220;terrific in the movies.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the movies are outstanding,&#8221; Cage shared. &#8220;I like the political and the sociological [messages]. To me, what science fiction is really all about and why it&#8217;s such an important genre is that really you can say whatever you want, however you feel.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You put it on a different planet, you put it in a different time or in the future, and without people just jumping on you, you can really express your thoughts like Orwell or whomever in the science-fiction format,&#8221; the actor added. &#8220;And Star Trek really embraced that. I thought they got into some serious stuff.&#8221;</p>
<p>In September at the Disney&#8217;s D23 expo, Pascal shared that he had already pitched the idea of having Cage joining him on the hit Disney series following their 2022 buddy film &#8220;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,&#8221; the <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/nicolas-cage-is-no-star-wars-fan-im-a-trekkie/">New York Post</a> noted.</p>
<p>&#8220;I already suggested [it],&#8221; Pascal shared at the time. &#8220;I already said he would make a great Mandalorian.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll wear a helmet,&#8221; he added.  &#8220;Absolutely … Or he could be one of the helmet-less.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Shatner-lead late 60s &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; TV series branched off into a hugely successful franchise, leading to 13 films to date, not to mention all the hit TV series that stem from the &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; world, since the original aired in 1966, the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nicholas-cage-not-joining-star-wars-star-trek-1235293231/">Hollywood Reporter</a> noted.</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-actor-reveals-he-believed-he-was-an-alien-as-a-child">Hollywood Actor Reveals He Believed He Was An Alien As A Child</a></strong></p>


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<p>Hollywood legend <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nicolas-cage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nicolas Cage</a> revealed in a recent interview that, as a child, he had truly believed that he was from another planet.</p>
<p>Cage explained to <a href="https://ramp.space/en/issue/by-the-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rampstyle</a> magazine that his younger self was so entirely convinced that he was an alien that a simple trip to the doctor&#8217;s office — and a view inside his own body — had once delivered a massive paradigm shift.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was shocked the day I went to the doctor’s office as a child and I found out that I had normal organs and a normal skeleton because I was certain I was from another planet,&#8221; Cage said, going on to add that one of the main reasons he had <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/13/nicolas-cage-thought-he-was-an-alien-as-a-child/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believed that</a> was because he had always found relating to other people to be painfully difficult.</p>
<p>&#8220;My father told me he felt like he had to introduce himself to me because I was such an alien,&#8221; Cage said of his father, the late author and film executive August Coppola.</p>
<p>Cage then explained that the feeling of being alien — along with a little inspiration from late artist David Bowie — led him toward acting.</p>
<p>&#8220;I had difficulties connecting with other people. When I saw David Bowie in ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth,’ I realized I needed to do something, so I became an actor,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Cage is no stranger to finding himself in the middle of, well, <em>strange</em> stories — it was revealed in a New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/nicolas-cages-wild-menagerie-included-a-two-headed-snake/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> published earlier this year that the Oscar-winning actor had once owned a two-headed snake and enjoyed the fact that his pet crow insulted him when he left the room.</p>
<p>The &#8220;National Treasure&#8221; actor explained he had bought the two-headed reptile for $80,000 after dreaming about an eagle with two heads — but because the two heads fought over food, he eventually donated it to the Audubon Zoo.</p>
<p>&#8220;Both heads were fully functional and capable of swallowing. We had to take turns feeding each head and place a rubber spatula between the heads to prevent one head from fighting over the other head’s food,&#8221; Robert Mendyk, curator of herpetology at the zoo, explained to the Post.</p>
<p>As for the crow, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-01-26/nicolas-cage-on-pig-elvis-dracula-and-his-career" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cage says</a> Hoogan talks — and he&#8217;s not very complimentary: &#8220;When I leave the room, he’ll go &#8216;bye&#8217; and then go, &#8216;A**.’”</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Earlier this year, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bruce-willis-reveals-diagnosis-that-is-taking-him-out-of-the-hollywood-game" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bruce Willis retired from acting</a> after revealing his battle with aphasia, a medical condition that impacts a person’s speech patterns.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The announcement didn’t stop the flow of Willis projects in the pipeline, though.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Wire Room” hit theaters in September and “Paradise City,” which teams him with screen legend John Travolta, is set for a November release.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We’re still waiting on three “Detective Knight” films with Willis playing the title character and a thriller dubbed “Die Like Lovers,” all completed before his announcement.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s on top of Willis’ 2022 release list, which includes “Wrong Place,” “White Elephant,” “Vendetta,” “Corrective Measures,” “A Day to Die,” “Gasoline Alley,” and “Fortress: Sniper’s Eye.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They all have plenty in common: They’re action-packed, low-budget vehicles that draw little love from critics and let Willis shoot his scenes quickly and go. And each benefits from Willis’ star presence and fan base, commercially speaking.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And none will have a fraction of the cache he earned from “Die Hard,” “Pulp Fiction,” or “The Sixth Sense.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now, there’s another Hollywood icon who may be ready to take his place.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mel Gibson’s A-list status collapsed in 2006 when video emerged of him shouting anti-Semitic slurs at police officers following a drunken driving arrest. More ugly headlines followed, including audio of the “Braveheart” star admitting to hitting his then-girlfriend.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Gibson stepped away from the spotlight, returning years later in a series of indie films that let him slowly build back his industry goodwill.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">It worked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He eventually snagged a prominent directorial project, 2016’s “Hacksaw Ridge,” a critical and commercial success which earned him an Oscar nomination. He didn’t win, but enough of the industry forgave him for his ugly past.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He’s currently directing and starring in the fifth film in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise and may helm the sequel to his box office sensation “The Passion of the Christ.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet he’s suddenly one of Hollywood’s busiest stars in the Willis mold. He’s cranking out action films with smaller budgets that typically go straight to VOD (Video on Demand).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This year alone Gibson has eight feature films to his credit. Most traditional movie stars may have two or three films per year, at best. Stars like Denzel Washington work at a more leisurely pace, taking care to pick the best projects for their skill set.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not Gibson. And only one has big studio packaging – “Father Stu” featuring Mark Wahlberg.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Most of the Gibson projects feel like films Willis might have considered had he kept on working. They’re genre films, brimming with action, intrigue and mayhem, and Gibson now often plays supporting players despite his Hollywood pedigree.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take “Hot Seat,” the story of a talented hacker (“Entourage” alum Kevin Dillon) trapped to an explosives-laden chair. Gibson co-stars as a bomb squad cop trying to save the hacker.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Or “Bandit,” which follows a smooth criminal (Josh Duhamel) forced to collaborate with a gangster (Gibson) to support his new love (Elisha Cuthbert).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Why would iconic stars like Willis and Gibson wallow in the B-movie muck in the first place? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Well, it’s a gig, for starters. These projects often pay well considering the tiny work load in question.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And, given Hollywood’s youth obsession, steady work into one’s 60s and beyond isn’t insignificant. Willis is 67, while Gibson turns 67 in January 2023.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Other established talent, like 58-year-old Nicolas Cage, similarly grab B-movie projects to keep busy and fatten their wallets. Cage famously did so, in part, after getting </span><a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/nicolas-cage-defends-vod-films-debt-1235211377/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">collared by the IRS</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“When I was doing four movies a year, back to back to back, I still had to find something in them to be able to give it my all … They didn’t work, all of them. Some of them were terrific, like ‘Mandy,’ but some of them didn’t work. But I never phoned it in. So if there was a misconception, it was that. That I was just doing it and not caring. I was caring.”</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Willis, his busy pace may have been to secure money for his family knowing his medical condition would soon prevent him from working.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Movie stars no longer sell tickets as they once did, witness star-laded bombs like the recent “Amsterdam.” Their names still matter on the international market, where many of these B-movies blossom, financially speaking.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">They also help elevate lesser-known titles with names like “Bandit” and “Wire Room.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There’s another difference between Willis’ late-career choices and the path Gibson may be following. Critics routinely noticed Willis phoning in his performances, citing the lack of enthusiasm he brought to these minor roles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His health deterioration may be to blame here but given his past work it proved impossible not to compare and contrast.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">That’s not the case with Gibson. </span><a href="https://filmthreat.com/reviews/hot-seat/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Here’s FilmThreat’s take on “Hot Seat”</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and what the “Max Max” star brings to the indie thriller.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;But really, acting-wise, it is Gibson who enlivens the proceedings. His constant viewing of everything as a chess game feels natural to the character, and the actor is clearly having fun with the fast-talking, smartest guy in the room part. Gibson is as charming as ever and proves what made him a superstar.&#8221;</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Variety called the actor’s “Panama” &#8211; </span><a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/panama-review-mel-gibson-1235206203/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Mel Gibson Movie of the Month Club</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> – but couldn’t deny the star’s screen presence against a younger colleague, “Yellowstone’s” Cole Hauser.</span></p>
<blockquote><p><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Trouble is, Hauser can barely hold up his share of the bargain whenever he’s on screen opposite Gibson, even when the latter tones down, slightly, his propensity for wild-eyed, crazy-vibes scenery-chewing.&#8221;</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Show business isn’t just a catch phrase. The term reveals the unglamorous side of Hollywood, and the cold realities even the best stars often face. The screen legacies of Willis, Gibson and Cage are just more proof of that truth.</span></p>
<p><em>Christian Toto is an award-winning journalist, movie critic and editor of <a href="http://www.hollywoodintoto.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HollywoodInToto.com</a>. He previously served as associate editor with Breitbart News&#8217; Big Hollywood. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/HollywoodInToto?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@HollywoodInToto</a>. </em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire. </em></p>


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Readers Pass

<p>The Washington Post resorted to using a Disney movie as a reference in an article explaining the significance of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) with regard to the recent <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/doj-says-fbi-seized-possible-attorney-client-privileged-information-in-trump-raid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FBI raid</a> of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago home.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/08/27/trump-archives-records-war/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a>, titled &#8220;Inside Trump&#8217;s War on the National Archives,&#8221; dug into some of the threats and hate that have reportedly been directed toward NARA in the three weeks since FBI agents raiding Mar-a-Lago and removed a number of boxes of documents that had been stored there.</p>
<p>But while attempting to explain the back-and-forth between the NARA and Trump — who is certainly not the first former president to find himself at odds with the administration over ownership of records — the authors of the article included a reference to Disney&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-shows-up-for-training-camp-dressed-as-nic-cage-from-con-air/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Treasure</a>&#8221; in an effort to paint a clearer picture of the Archives.</p>
<p>The Post shared a portion of an internal email from acting archivist Debra Steidel Wall to NARA staffers, which read in part, &#8220;NARA has received messages from the public accusing us of corruption and conspiring against the former President, or congratulating NARA for &#8216;bringing him down.&#8217; Neither is accurate or welcome.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The email capped a year-long saga that has embroiled the Archives — widely known for being featured in the 2004 Nicolas Cage movie, &#8216;National Treasure&#8217; — in a protracted fight with Trump over classified documents and other records that were taken when he left office,&#8221; the Post added in the following paragraph.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is the funniest possible bit of context to include when explaining what the national archives actually is,&#8221; Texas Monthly Senior Editor Dan Solomon said of the reference.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the funniest possible bit of context to include when explaining what the national archives actually is <a href="https://t.co/Yd9hpqGeDI">pic.twitter.com/Yd9hpqGeDI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; dan solomon (@dansolomon) <a href="https://twitter.com/dansolomon/status/1564036884548009986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;The Archives — widely known for being featured in the 2004 Nicolas Cage movie, &#8216;National Treasure&#8221; is one of the weirder asides I&#8217;ve seen in WaPo. Maybe say it&#8217;s best known as the home of the Declaration and Constitution. But Nic Cage?&#8221; Michael Jacobs added.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">&quot;The Archives — widely known for being featured in the 2004 Nicolas Cage movie, &#39;National Treasure&#39;” is one of the weirder asides I&#39;ve seen in WaPo. Maybe say it&#39;s best known as the home of the Declaration and Constitution. But Nic Cage?<a href="https://t.co/jsVvYHqonV">https://t.co/jsVvYHqonV</a> <a href="https://t.co/EyERODJPia">pic.twitter.com/EyERODJPia</a></p>
<p>&mdash; (((Michael Jacobs))) (@ChipJake) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChipJake/status/1563918537021857793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 28, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>NARA has previously contested the <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/why-presidential-papers-don-t-belong-to-presidents-/6694170.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">possession of records</a> removed from the White House, arguing that presidential records belong to the United States government.</p>
<p>&#8220;Presidential records are the property of the United States government and are administered by the National Archives,&#8221; Meghan Ryan Guthorn, acting deputy chief operating officer of the agency explained. &#8220;So, all presidential papers, materials and records in the custody of the National Archives, whether donated, seized or governed by the Presidential Records Act, are owned by the federal government.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/videos/introducing-dw-kids">kids entertainment content</a>.)</em></p>


“National Treasure” World Premiere – Red Carpet

WaPo References Disney Flick To Explain What The National Archives Are To Readers

WaPo References Disney's 'National Treasure' To Explain What The National Archives Are To Readers

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Washington Post

<p>Reigning league MVP <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/aaron-rodgers-signs-massive-new-contract-with-green-bay-packers-report/">Aaron Rodgers</a> showed up to training camp on Tuesday, and his look prompted a number of fans — and even ESPN — to compare him to actor <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/nicolas-cage-did-a-reddit-ama-here-are-the-weirdest-questions-and-answers/">Nicolas Cage</a> in the late-nineties action move &#8220;Con-Air.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Green Bay Packers quarterback, who spent part of the off-season cementing a contract extension — which included a guaranteed $101.5 million — arrived unshaven with his hair down to his shoulders. He wore a white tank top, jeans, and work boots.</p>
<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s do this,&#8221; the Green Bay Packers captioned a video of Rodgers&#8217; arrival.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Let&#39;s do this. <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronRodgers12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AaronRodgers12</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PackersCamp?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PackersCamp</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GoPackGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GoPackGo</a> <a href="https://t.co/gEgqBhyzJP">pic.twitter.com/gEgqBhyzJP</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Green Bay Packers (@packers) <a href="https://twitter.com/packers/status/1551941252672888832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>&#8220;The reigning MVP showed up as Nick Cage in Con Air,&#8221; @ESPNNFL tweeted in response, sharing a photo of Rodgers alongside Cage as Cameron Poe, his character in the film.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The reigning MVP showed up as Nick Cage in Con Air 😭 <a href="https://twitter.com/AaronRodgers12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AaronRodgers12</a> </p>
<p>(📸 <a href="https://twitter.com/packers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@packers</a>) <a href="https://t.co/dpL709lgXp">pic.twitter.com/dpL709lgXp</a></p>
<p>&mdash; NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNNFL/status/1551949220441210880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>&#8220;Put … the bunny … back … in the box&#8230;,&#8221; Hal Sparks <a href="https://twitter.com/HalSparks/status/1551978967938191360">tweeted</a>, quoting one of the movie&#8217;s most famous lines.</p>
<p>&#8220;In which Aaron Rodgers morphs into the real-life version of Cameron Poe &#8230;,&#8221; Fox News contributor Joe Concha <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1551970521474015233">added</a>.</p>
<p>NBA reporter Chris Fedor asked, &#8220;Was he going for the Cameron Poe look? Because if so, he NAILED it.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Was he going for the Cameron Poe look? Because if so, he NAILED it. <a href="https://t.co/n7TfhmClPY">https://t.co/n7TfhmClPY</a> <a href="https://t.co/ThcPyKYR3H">pic.twitter.com/ThcPyKYR3H</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Chris Fedor (@ChrisFedor) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisFedor/status/1551960401230942208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>&#8220;The Con Air reboot looks terrible,&#8221; @theclem report <a href="https://twitter.com/TheClemReport/status/1551945795779403778">complained</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;You have to respect the dedication,&#8221; Trey Wingo <a href="https://twitter.com/wingoz/status/1552016987727044620">commented</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Halloween came early at Packers camp when the GB QB arrived as Cameron Poe in &#8216;Con Air&#8217; — undershirt, jeans, beard, hair longer than ever. Don&#8217;t think Aaron Rodgers wasn&#8217;t going exactly for that Nic Cage look. After all, he&#8217;s the greatest regular-season QB ever. (Playoffs: 11-10),&#8221; Skip Bayless was certain that the resemblance was entirely intentional.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Halloween came early at Packers camp when the GB QB arrived as Cameron Poe in &quot;Con Air&quot; &#8211; undershirt, jeans, beard, hair longer than ever. Don&#39;t think Aaron Rodgers wasn&#39;t going exactly for that Nic Cage look. After all, he&#39;s the greatest regular-season QB ever. (Playoffs: 11-10)</p>
<p>&mdash; Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSkipBayless/status/1552053820594696192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>The Ringer&#8217;s NFL editor Lindsay Jones added, &#8220;It&#8217;s not even noon here and we&#8217;ve already gotten Aaron Rodgers going full Nic Cage, Tom Brady hawking shake-and-dry swim suits and Joe Burrow losing his appendix. Pretty fun day for my first Ringer NFL Show. Let&#8217;s get weird.&#8221;</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">It&#39;s not even noon here and we&#39;ve already gotten Aaron Rodgers going full Nic Cage, Tom Brady hawking shake-and-dry swim suits and Joe Burrow losing his appendix. </p>
<p>Pretty fun day to record my first Ringer NFL Show. Let&#39;s get weird.</p>
<p>&mdash; Lindsay Jones (@bylindsayhjones) <a href="https://twitter.com/bylindsayhjones/status/1551975520371216384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m usually not a fan of these dorky camp arrival videos, but man! Aaron Rodgers pulled off the perfect Cameron Poe! Just nailed it&#8230;.. Makes me wonder if Nic Cage could&#8217;ve been a multiple time NFL MVP,&#8221; Hans Olsen <a href="https://twitter.com/975Hans/status/1551962068818898944">quipped</a>.</p>
<p>Barstool Sports went a different direction with the video, <a href="https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1551948995035123713">adding</a>, &#8220;Aaron Rodgers looks ready to enter his Brett Favre Wrangler era.&#8221;</p>


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Aaron Rodgers' Training Camp Look Prompts Comparisons To Nicolas Cage In 'Con-Air'

Aaron Rodgers

<p>Actor Nicolas Cage participated in a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) forum, and he really did take questions about everything — from his least favorite movie quote to have shouted at him by fans to his favorite pasta shape.</p>
<p>Cage <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/tzxev3/hello_im_nicolas_cage_and_welcome_to_ask_me/">did the AMA</a> to promote his new film &#8220;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&#8221; — in which the Oscar-winning actor plays himself — which is scheduled to premiere in theaters on April 22.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">NOW is the time to ask Nick your burning questions. Head to r/movies on <a href="https://twitter.com/Reddit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Reddit</a> for his AMA happening now! 👉 <a href="https://t.co/GVOhsNEDNm">https://t.co/GVOhsNEDNm</a> <a href="https://t.co/wdgW9SMCOz">pic.twitter.com/wdgW9SMCOz</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Massive Talent (@NickCageMovie) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickCageMovie/status/1512838278545874946?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>Empire Magazine editor Nick de Semlyen quickly highlighted the question he thought was best — the one that revealed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nicolas-cage">Cage&#8217;s</a> favorite pasta shape, which he apparently discovered alongside fellow actor Charlie Sheen.</p>
<p>&#8220;I once went to an Italian restaurant in San Francisco about 25 years ago with Charlie Sheen,&#8221; Cage replied, noting that they had gone to that restaurant specifically to try pasta that came in the shape of a &#8220;square tube.&#8221; &#8220;We loved it so much we went back the next day to try it again.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The best part of today’s Nicolas Cage AMA. <a href="https://t.co/hc6J1JphPX">pic.twitter.com/hc6J1JphPX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Nick de Semlyen (@NickdeSemlyen) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickdeSemlyen/status/1512901330528083973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 9, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>&#8220;What is your dream role that you have yet to complete?&#8221; another user asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;I would like to play Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo because of the character’s love of the ocean I share that with him,&#8221; Cage replied.</p>
<p>Another asked him about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-plot-for-nicholas-cages-next-movie-is-just-crazy">movies he loved</a> — specifically the ones he could watch &#8220;over and over&#8221; without ever getting tired of them. Cage gave two responses to that question: &#8220;Apocalypse Now,&#8221; and &#8220;Spirited Away.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;One of your most fascinating performances to me was as Big Daddy in &#8216;Kick-Ass,'&#8221; another posted. &#8220;When you were crafting that performance, was Adam West the biggest inspiration for your superhero persona, or were there other sources you felt you drew more heavily from?&#8221;</p>
<p>Cage confirmed that he had, in fact, been inspired by the legendary &#8220;Batman&#8221; actor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/icon-adam-west-dead-88-frank-camp">Adam West</a>. &#8220;I would give it all to Adam West. I grew up watching him on the 60s Batman show and he is where it begins and where it ends as Big Daddy. I met Adam West once and I said, &#8216;Did you see I was channeling you?&#8217; and he said, &#8216;I saw you TRY to channel me!'&#8221;</p>
<p>One jokingly addressed Cage as fellow actor John Travolta, playing on the fact that the two had switched identities in the movie &#8220;Face/Off.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Dear Mr. Travolta, How has life changed for you since changing faces with Nicholas Cage? Do you regret the decision or would you do it again?&#8221; the poster asked, prompting Cage to respond simply, &#8220;Hahahaha.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another asked whether he found himself annoyed by fans who yelled lines from his movies at him in public: &#8220;What&#8217;s the movie quote you hate most when strangers holler it at you in public?&#8221;</p>
<p>Cage said he wasn&#8217;t terribly bothered by fans doing that — and that to him it was just a sign that they enjoyed and remembered his work.</p>
<p>&#8220;I don’t have a problem with any of the quotes, I’m glad they remember the movie,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Cage also said that if only three of his films could be preserved for the sake of posterity, the ones he would choose would be &#8220;Pig,&#8221; &#8220;Bringing Out The Dead,&#8221; and &#8220;Leaving Las Vegas.&#8221;</p>


2022 SXSW Conference And Festival – Day 2

Nicolas Cage Did A Reddit AMA: Here Are The Weirdest Questions (And Answers)

Reddit

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A fellow Hollywood actor is weighing in on the Alec Baldwin gun safety debacle. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A-lister Nicolas Cage has participated in plenty of movies over the course of his decades-long career and has learned how to safely handle props. While he didn’t fully blame Baldwin for the tragedy on the set of the movie “Rust,” the “Face/Off” alum did mention that it was imperative for actors to be trained in the handling of weapons.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cage made the remarks during a roundtable </span><a href="https://youtu.be/tPXHSuJWOqk"><span style="font-weight: 400;">discussion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with actors Peter Dinklage, Andrew Garfield, Jonathan Majors, and Simon Rex for The Hollywood Reporter this week. The group moderator brought up the “Rust” incident, which left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and director Joel Souza injured. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to cast blame anywhere, but I do think, and I&#8217;m not talking about anybody, but people don&#8217;t like the word movie star. We want to be humble actors,” Cage said in response to the prompt.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“But a movie star is a bit of a different kind of presentation because you need to know how to ride a horse,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You need to know how to fight. You&#8217;re going to do fight scenes. You need to know how to ride a motorcycle. You need to know how to use a stick shift and drive sports cars, and you do need to know how to use a gun. You do. You need to take the time to know what the procedure is. Those are part of the job profiles.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Lord of War” star went on to stress the importance of stunt people for the most dangerous activities during filming.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Now, the stuntman and the movie star are two jobs that co-exist, they co-exist,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Every stuntman needs to be a movie star and every movie star needs to be a stuntman. That&#8217;s just part of the profile&#8230; And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about it.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Game of Thrones” star Peter Dinklage added his thoughts as well, explaining how he believed movies shouldn’t have as many guns in them, period. He also described himself as “anti-gun.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It can be avoided because look at what you can do with movies,&#8221; the actor said. &#8220;You know that also calls into question, are there too many guns in movies?”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He continued, “We&#8217;ve all held guns in movies, probably, and I always think about that being anti-gun myself, but the character isn&#8217;t. That&#8217;s a very complicated thing. But that made it very clear that there has to be change, like, now. One hundred percent.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baldwin has expressed his sympathy for the fatal incident but maintains that he was not ultimately at fault for the death of Hutchins.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When asked, “Do you feel guilt?” by ABC News host George Stephanopoulos during an exclusive interview, </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/baldwin-on-if-he-feels-guilt-for-killing-halyna-hutchins-no-someone-is-responsible-its-not-me"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Baldwin insisted</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> it was someone else to blame. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“No. No,” Baldwin replied. “I feel that there is, I feel that someone is responsible for what happened and I can’t say who that is, but I know it’s not me.”</span></p>


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<p>After weeks of debate and speculation over who will play Joe Exotic – the infamous anti-hero in Netflix&#8217;s wildly popular docuseries &#8220;Tiger King&#8221; – Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage has been tapped to play the coveted role.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/joe-exotic-nicolas-cage-series-tiger-king-1234574979/">Variety</a>, Imagine Television and CBS Television Studios will be producing the series, which will be based on the Texas Monthly article, “Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild,” by Leif Reigstad.</p>
<p>&#8220;CBS TV Studios optioned the article in June of 2019. Dan Lagana will serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer under his overall deal at CBS TV Studios with Paul Young executive producing via Make Good Content,&#8221; reported Variety. &#8220;Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Samie Kim Falvey will executive produce for Imagine. Cage will executive produce via Saturn Films. Scott Brown and Megan Creydt will executive produce for Texas Monthly. Imagine’s James Seidman and Natalie Berkus are overseeing the project for the company.&#8221;</p>
<p>This marks the second scripted series about Joe Exotic to be greenlighted. The first will star actress Kate McKinnon as animal rights activist Carole Baskin.</p>
<p>Netflix released &#8220;Tiger King&#8221; on March 20, with the docuseries instantly becoming an international sensation. As the Netflix show chronicles in detail, Joe Exotic, real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage, was sentenced to 22 years in jail after an Oklahoma jury convicted him in 2019 of animal cruelty and contracting a hitman to kill his chief rival, animal rights activist Carole Baskin of Big Cat Rescue (the hitman did not go through with the act). Though not conclusively proving it one way or the other, the documentary postulated Exotic may have been set up by his business partner, Jeff Lowe.</p>
<p>The documentary&#8217;s open-ended treatment of Exotic&#8217;s crime has led to speculation that he could be viable for a presidential pardon. In a recent Facebook post, Exotic publicly asked Trump to grant him a presidential pardon, arguing that key witnesses lied under oath and that prosecutors simply wanted to get a win with no regard for the truth.</p>
<p>“I am being sent to Prison because a seasoned con man wanted my zoo so bad for free that he set me up in a plan he devised to look like I participated in his murder for hire scheme to get me out of his way to take over,” Exotic<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/netflix-tiger-king-joe-exotic-president-trump"> said in the Facebook post</a>.</p>
<p>“Mr. President, I am pleading with you to please have this looked into,” he concluded. “I am currently incarcerated at the Grady County Jail in Oklahoma and facing 20 – 50 years in prison for doing the same thing every zoo and sanctuary owner has had to do at one time or another.”</p>
<p>During a recent White House press conference, a reporter even went as far to ask President Trump if he would grant Joe Exotic a presidential pardon. &#8220;I&#8217;ll take a look,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-asked-about-possible-pardon-for-joe-exotic-from-netflix-show-tiger-king-ill-take-a-look">president replied</a>.</p>
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Joe Exotic

Tiger King

<p>In what can only be described as a Hail Mary comeback move after over a decade of flops and straight-to-video B-movies, actor Nicholas Cage&#8217;s next project is just absolutely bonkers.</p>
<p>According to <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/nicolas-cage-star-as-nicolas-cage-unbearable-weight-massive-talent-1254626">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, the Oscar-winning actor&#8217;s next movie, titled &#8220;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,&#8221; will be a story so meta that not even Deadpool could dream it up. Beating out HBO Max and Paramount, Lionsgate has entered into final negotiations to acquire the film, which will involve Cage playing himself as he gets embroiled in all sorts of crazy antics that includes getting a role in the next Quentin Tarantino movie, talking to past versions of himself, and fighting Mexican drug cartels after being recruited by the CIA. Here&#8217;s how THR describes it:</p>
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<blockquote><p>If the deals close, Cage would star as actor Nicolas Cage. The character is desperate to get a role in a new Quentin Tarantino movie while also dealing with a strained relationship with his teenage daughter. He also occasionally talks to an egotistical 1990s version of himself who rides him for making too many crappy movies and for not being a star anymore.</p>
<p>The Cage character is also under a mountain of debt and finds himself forced to make an appearance at the birthday party of a Mexican billionaire who happens to be a fan of the actor&#8217;s work and secretly hopes to show him a script on which he&#8217;s been working.</p>
<p>While he bonds with the man, Cage is informed by the CIA that the billionaire is actually a drug cartel kingpin who has kidnapped the daughter of a Mexican presidential nominee and Cage is subsequently recruited by the U.S. government to get intelligence. The situation spirals even more dramatically when the billionaire brings over Cage&#8217;s daughter and his ex-wife for a reconciliation, and when their lives are on the line, Cage takes on the role of a lifetime.</p></blockquote>
<p>Screenwriters Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten said they intended the film as a love letter to Nicholas Cage&#8217;s work and will reference several of his hit films, including &#8220;Leaving Las Vegas,&#8221; &#8220;Face/Off,&#8221; and &#8220;Gone in 60 Seconds.&#8221;</p>
<p>Though undeniably crazy in its description, the &#8220;The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent&#8221; is hardly the first film to employ meta on such a high-profile talent– a trend that arguably began with Billy Wilder&#8217;s &#8220;Sunset Boulevard.&#8221; In 1993, Arnold Schwarzenegger went a similar route with &#8220;Last Action Hero,&#8221; which was followed by &#8220;Being John Malkovich&#8221; in 1999 and 2002&#8217;s &#8220;Adaptation,&#8221; which, ironically, also starred Nicholas Cage. Actor Jean-Claude Van Damme got in on the trend as well with 2008&#8217;s &#8220;JCVD.&#8221;</p>
<p>Cage’s career as a bankable A-list star took a nose-dive a little over a decade ago when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20091104010931/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20316292,00.html">said the actor failed</a> to pay $6.2 million in federal income tax in 2007 as well as another $350,000 in unpaid taxes between 2002 and 2004. In response, Cage filed a $20 million lawsuit against his business manager, Samuel J. Levin, for failing to “pay taxes when they were due” and for placing him in “speculative and risky real estate investments resulting in (the actor) suffering catastrophic losses.”</p>
<p>Filing a counter-suit, <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/11/17/pf/Nicolas_Cage_lawsuit_manager.cnnw/index.htm">Samuel Levin said</a> that Cage overspent money beyond his means and against advice.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;Instead of listening to Levin, cross-defendant [Cage] spent most of his free time shopping for high ticket purchases, and wound up with 15 personal residences,&#8217; Levin’s complaint said. &#8216;Likewise, Levin advised [Cage] against buying a Gulfstream jet, against buying and owning a flotilla of yachts, against buying and owning a squadron of Rolls Royces, against buying millions of dollars in jewelry and art.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>As a result of his crippling debt, Cage was forced to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/10/craziest-things-nicholas-cage-bought-with-150-million.html?__source=Facebook">accept movie roles</a> “left and right” to pay it off, which is why the actor’s name appeared in titles like, “Left Behind,” “Vengeance: A Love Story,” and “Pay the Ghost.”</p>
<p>Despite the slump, the Academy Award winner has still managed to scoop up a few good ones, such as his roles in “Kick-Ass” and “Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse.” At one point, he was <a href="https://bgr.com/2016/12/29/nicolas-cage-ronald-reagan-movie/">even slated to play Ronald Reagan</a> in the Reagan biopic before the role eventually went to actor Dennis Quaid.</p>
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