Even by Nicolas Cage's standards, Dream Scenario is a strange movie — but mostly in that there is nothing at all unusual about the character he plays. A mediocre biologist whose research is routinely stolen by other scientists, Paul Matthews becomes famous overnight when he starts appearing in other…
Deadline's Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year's most talked-about scripts continues with Dream Scenario, A24's surreal dark comedy from Norwegian filmmaker Kristoffer Borgli that plays off Nicolas Cage's decades-long permeation of the imagination.
In the buzzy Toronto Film Festival…
DREAM SCENARIOSection: Platform
Director-screenwriter: Kristoffer Borgli
Logline: Nicolas Cage plays Paul Matthews, an inconspicuous academic who is thrust into the limelight after he starts inexplicably appearing in people’s dreams in this satirical swipe at celebrity and groupthink from…