'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' has moderately the breathtaking backdrop, and viewers can't help however marvel where the flick was filmed.
Following his "mutual departure" from Hollywood, Nicolas Cage is formally again in the spotlight.
His latest venture, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, features the Oscar winner portraying a fictionalized version of himself. After suffering financially, his character "Nick Cage" officially quits performing and begrudgingly accepts a $1 million offer to attend billionaire superfan Javi's (Pedro Pascal) party.
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Along the way in which, a CIA operative (Tiffany Haddish) informs Nick that Javi is a notorious hands broker. Now, Nick will have to embark on an odd challenge where he is "forced to live up to his own legend, channeling his most iconic and beloved on-screen characters in order to save himself and his loved ones," the official synopsis reads.
Most of the story unfolds in front of a panoramic backdrop, and we will't lend a hand however marvel: Where was The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent filmed? Let's find out!
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Where was 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' filmed?
With such an eccentric narrative, we expected The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent to head giant or go home when it got here to filming. Luckily, production went big and filmed primarily in Croatia.
According to Croatia Week, the action-comedy filmed for 15 days in October 2020. The outlet noted several scenes had been shot in and round "Dubrovnik at Villa Sheherezade, as well as in Konavle, Cavtat, Popovica, Trsteno, and Čilipi Airport."
At the time, Massive Talent was the 9th film to apply to the Filming in Croatia incentives program. For the ones unaware, the incentive offers a 25 percent money rebate on qualifying expenses for eligible projects. All function film productions will have to spend a minimum of $325,000 to receive the fee.
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Additionally, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC) reported that the movie "was shot in Croatia with the help of the service production company Ambasada Studio, as part of the program to encourage investment in the production of audiovisual works," which they're "implementing in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Media."
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Tom Gormican stated it was difficult to ship props to Croatia all through height COVID.
During the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, director Tom Gormican spoke with Daily Dead concerning the mission, revealing challenges he and others encountered in looking to ship the essential props and collectibles to Croatia for the "Nick Cage Museum."
"Just being able to license all of that stuff was really difficult. All the movie clips, memorabilia, all that stuff. We sourced it from wherever we could find any of it. We had the wax sculpture built, of course," Tom said.
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He added that it was especially difficult trying to obtain the relics and that sending them over to Croatia all through the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic was an absolute nightmare of a undertaking.
"But, just trying to get all of those different props during peak COVID, where you couldn't ship anything anywhere, it was just unbelievably hard to source a lot of that stuff. But we ended up getting it somehow," Tom concluded.
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent hits theaters on April 22, 2022.
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