The unbearable weight of appearing in everybody’s sleeping fantasies serves as the driving force of Nicolas Cage’s newest movie, Dream Scenario. What seems like a fun viral moment appears to go sideways in the first trailer for the flick, from Everything Everywhere All At Once studio A24.
The teaser shows Cage portraying a professor named Paul Matthews who suddenly starts showing up in everyone’s dreams, including his students and strangers. But his five minutes of fame goes from good to bad when these fantasies turn into nightmares.
Dream Scenario comes from writer and director Kristoffer Borgli and producer Ari Aster (the filmmaker behind Hereditary and Midsommar). Along with Cage, the comedy stars Julianne Nicholson (Weird: The Al Yankovic Story), Michael Cera (Barbie), and Tim Meadows (Mean Girls).