Page SixPage Six3h
BillboardBillboard3h
DeadlineDeadline3h
CinemaBlendCinemaBlend3h
VultureVulture3h
MovieWebMovieWeb3h
MovieWebMovieWeb3h
SlashFilmSlashFilm3h
The WrapThe Wrap3h
DeciderDecider3h
The WrapThe Wrap3h
Hollywood ReporterHollywood Reporter3h
VarietyVariety3h
ComingSoon.netComingSoon.net3h
Page SixPage Six4h
MovieWebMovieWeb4h
IndiewireIndiewire4h
MovieWebMovieWeb4h
MovieWebMovieWeb4h
DeciderDecider4h
ComicBook.comComicBook.com4h
The RingerThe Ringer5h
The WrapThe Wrap5h
DeadlineDeadline5h
VultureVulture5h
MovieWebMovieWeb5h
CinemaBlendCinemaBlend5h
CinemaBlendCinemaBlend5h
VarietyVariety5h
ComicBook.comComicBook.com
Jack Black and Nicolas Cage Almost Starred in the Weirdest Musical of All Time
ComicBook.comStory by Lisa Laman
scrn logline
Legendary screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's audacious musical project, featuring Jack Black and Nicolas Cage, never made it to the big screen despite its star-studded cast and bold vision.
beat sheet
- Kaufman's proposed project, 'Frank or Francis,' was set to be a scathing showbiz satire, with Cage playing a typecast actor and Black as an internet-dwelling movie blogger in a contentious relationship with a filmmaker.
- The film's ambitious concept, including an animatronic head designed to generate new movie ideas for studios, eerily presaged the rise of AI-driven creativity in Hollywood, making it a prescient, if unrealized, vision of the industry's future.
call sheet
Charlie Kaufman, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Steve Carell, Kevin Kline, Broadway, Hollywood, Frank or Francis
Jack Black and Nicolas Cage Almost Starred in the Weirdest Musical of All Time
ComicBook.comStory by Lisa Laman
scrn logline
Legendary screenwriter Charlie Kaufman's audacious musical project, featuring Jack Black and Nicolas Cage, never made it to the big screen despite its star-studded cast and bold vision.
beat sheet
- Kaufman's proposed project, 'Frank or Francis,' was set to be a scathing showbiz satire, with Cage playing a typecast actor and Black as an internet-dwelling movie blogger in a contentious relationship with a filmmaker.
- The film's ambitious concept, including an animatronic head designed to generate new movie ideas for studios, eerily presaged the rise of AI-driven creativity in Hollywood, making it a prescient, if unrealized, vision of the industry's future.
call sheet
Charlie Kaufman, Jack Black, Nicolas Cage, Steve Carell, Kevin Kline, Broadway, Hollywood, Frank or Francis