Nicolas Cage, balding and sporting wool sweaters, is a meek husband, father and tutorial who immediately turns into a viral sensation when he seeps into the goals of random strangers within the new trailer for Kristoffer Borgli’s A24 satirical comedy Dream Scenario.
The pic, which bowed on the Toronto Movie Competition forward of a Thanksgiving launch, sees Cage play Paul Matthews, whose newfound stardom turns into a nightmare when his nighttime appearances complicate the lives of these round him.
“I’m not really doing something to them,” Matthews pleads at one level within the trailer because the comedy takes a darkish flip when the function he performs in folks’s goals undermines his celeb standing. Dream Situation additionally stars Julianne Nicholson, Michael Cera, Tim Meadows, Dylan Gelula and Dylan Baker.
Norwegian filmmaker Borgli wrote and directed his English-language movie debut after the breakout success of the black comedy Sick of Myself, whereas Ari Aster (Beau Is Afraid, Midsommar) produces.
Throughout Toronto, The Hollywood Reporter reviewer Michael Rechtshaffen said of Dream Scenario: “Nicolas Cage has by no means been as flat-out hilarious as he’s in Kristoffer Borgli’s gleefully darkish, savagely sharp satire… The star takes a whiny sufferer function and turns it right into a grasp class in reactive comedian appearing.”
Cage’s efficiency in Dream Situation out of Toronto has already prompted chatter that he might be in competition for awards for his function within the surrealist comedy that serves as a satire of as we speak’s social media tradition and its influence on folks’s day-to-day interactions.
Dream Situation will present up in theaters beginning on Nov. 10, earlier than going vast on Nov. 22.