Nicolas Cage is ready to star in a musical

Nicolas Cage has done a lot over the course of his career. He’s broken into Alcatraz, swapped faces with John Travolta, stolen the Declaration of Independence, and even played himself, but there’s one thing Nicolas Cage still wants to tackle — a musical.

While speaking with Empire for the Greatest Actors issue, Nicolas Cage opened up about the genre he’d like to take a shot at. “I haven’t done a musical yet,” Cage said. “I’d like to try that. I’m not much of a singer. I did sing okay in Wild At Heart, I thought, but I’ve since blown my voice out singing ‘Purple Rain’ incorrectly in karaoke bars.” The actor already has a musical role in mind, saying that he thinks he’d make “a good Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar.“

Nicolas Cage may still have musicals on his acting bucket list, but he recently checked one genre off the list by starring in his first Western. Butcher’s Way debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and found Cage playing a buffalo hunter who embarks on a harrowing journey risking life and sanity with a young Harvard dropout seeking his destiny out West. He’s got another Western on his slate with The Old Way, which finds Cage playing a former gunslinger who is forced back into action when a gang of outlaws murders his wife in cold blood. He unearths his sidearm and saddles up with an unlikely partner: his twelve-year-old daughter. The film will be released on January 6, 2023.

Perhaps Nicolas Cage’s most anticipated movie is Renfield, a horror comedy in which he plays Count Dracula. The film is based on an original story by Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead) and focuses on Renfield (Nicholas Hoult), who has grown sick and tired of centuries spent as Dracula’s lackey. He finds a new lease on life and maybe even redemption when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy (Awkwafina). Chris McKay directed the movie based on a screenplay by Ryan Ridley. The film recently received an R-rating for “bloody violence, some gore, language throughout, and some drug use.” Renfield will hit theaters on April 14, 2023.

Which musical would be a good fit for Nicolas Cage?