Crazy Actors Christian Bale And Nicholas Cage To Play Crazy Inventors Nikola Tesla And Thomas Edison
Yup. Rumor is Christian Bale and Nic Cage are going to be in a movie together. One about the feud between Tesla and Edison no less. Oh, and Cage will be playing Edison. Bring it on.
The movie will reportedly be called Tesla, Ruler of the World, and will revolve around a modern-day technological crisis that somehow ties back to Tesla’s life. Hopefully the modern-day stuff is just a brief framing device, because this movie needs to devote as much of its running time to Bale and Cage shouting at each other as possible.
I do feel sorry for whoever has to direct this thing. Between Nic Cage insisting every one of the hundreds of wigs, fake beards and merkins he’ll wear in the movie be blessed by a team of alchemists and shamans and Bale beating all the cameramen to death, each scene will take a minimum of a week to film.
Oh, also, Christian Bale looks so much like Tesla it’s kind of scary…
Freaky.
via The Film Stage
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Sure, Bale looks like Tesla now becaue he’s been method acting for 40 years to prepare for the part. Cage could be method acting too, maybe. Are the parts of Rasputin or Dahmer up for grabs?
This movie just shot up to my “To Watch” within the first paragraph of reading it.
Oh. My. God.
Fingers crossed for a making-of documentary.
All of the likes!
Hate to rain on everyone’s parade but this surfaced yesterday:
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With no Christian Bale as Tesla that leaves open the possibility for David Bowie to reclaim the Tesla mantle again.
I hold out hope. Also, if Bale pulls out, obviously Nicholas Cage would just play both parts.
Now you’re talking! He could play Tesla who stole Edison’s face, and in return Edison stole Tesla’s patents!
Team Tesla
I’m in. Alternating Current FTW!
All those years of sitting in his backyard talking to his T-Rex skull and electrocuting elephants is finally paying off for Nick Cage
Cage: I’m not just’coiled like a spring. MY COIL’S ELECTRIC.
Firtst part whispered. SECOND PART SCREAMED.
The references to The Prestige and Face Off are two of the many reasons I love reading Uproxx threads.
Guys, in the picture above the only similarity between Tesla and Bale is the camera position really….
Hey Nikola Tesla Film Crew.. you guys should go all the way and break new ground. Ask Bale and the producers to donate a generous % of box office to support/fund some modern day free energy inventors as part of a new paradigm of spiritual philanthropy! Science Needs Art! I will gladly help you with this if you can wake up to what is REALLY possible and the True Spirit of Tesla. Let me know… Peace.
This… This must be a joke… I can’t believe this is happening. Dear. Heaven. Above. This is amazing. *passes out from the awesomeness*
If you’re interested in Tesla, money is being raised on kickstarter to fund a documentary about him. Only 5 days left and they’re 20K short (they already have 15k). Donate and spread the word if you’d like to help make this happen. [www.kickstarter.com]
Tesla was not crazy.Tesla is greatest genius who was born.Today’s cutting-edge weapons that America is developing , based on Nikola Tesla.