Jack Black and Nicolas Cage Almost Starred in the Weirdest Musical of All Time

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• 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.