Surprisingly, Nicolas Cage and Sofia Coppola found themselves working on films in Toronto at the same time.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight published on Friday, the Oscar-winning actor revealed that his filmmaker cousin Coppola was filming Priscilla, which is currently in theaters, while he was working on the comedy Dream Scenario, directed by Kristoffer Borgli and set to open nationwide on November 22.
“I think it’s lovely. I think it’s wonderful. She’s so gifted, so talented.” According to Cage, Coppola is poised to direct the Priscilla Presley biopic, which will feature Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi.
However, Cage and Coppola were not the only members of the family who had prior obligations and were working on their own projects at the time. The Renfield actor made a point of telling Coppola how incredible it was that her father, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, was also filming Megalopolis at the same time as her uncle.
“It was interesting because we were both in Toronto at the same time filming and she was filming her picture and I was filming mine, and I did text her and said, ‘You know, it’s kind of incredible that your dad is over there making a movie in Atlanta at the same time you’re making a movie and I’m making a movie in Toronto. This is great. This has got to be good luck for all of us,’” This is fantastic.
In Cage’s film Dream Scenario, a misfortune family guy has a total life transformation when random people begin to see him in their dreams. Things alter when those fantasies turn into nightmares.