This story contains spoilers about Warner Bros. and the DC movie The Flash.

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… the unbearable weight of the incredibly talented Nicolas Cage. The Oscar-winning Leaving Las Vegas star has a cameo appearance in Warner Bros. and DC Studios’ The Flash, which stars actor Ezra Miller as the titular Scarlet Speedster in another full cameo superhero movie.

In an interview with Esquire Middle East, The Flash director Andy Muschietti detailed how worlds will collide next in the June 16 episode, and how he got the Face to Face and Con Air star to join the DC Extended Universe as the Man of Steel. This comes after Cage was slated to play Superman 25 years ago in Tim Burton’s ill-fated Superman Lives, a film that was never made and was made into a 2015 documentary.

“Nick was just amazing. Although this role was episodic, he went headlong into it, ”said wow wow. “I dreamed of working with him all my life. I hope to be able to work with him again soon.”

The IT and Mama maker also noted that Cage is a “big Superman fan”, calling the actor a “comic book fanatic”.

Indeed, Cage, whose real name is Nicholas Coppola as he is the nephew of director Francis Ford Coppola, came up with my stage name after superhuman Marvel hero Luke Cage and even named his son Kal-El, a reference to Superman’s Kryptonian nickname. The 59-year-old also previously owned a nearly intact copy of Action Comics No. 1, a 1938 comic in which Superman first appeared but was stolen from his house in 2000. 20 cents at auction in 2011 for a then-record $2.1 million.)

Cage also voiced the Last Son of Krypton in 2018’s Teen Titans GO! To the movies,” and in March distanced himself from DC rival Marvel, saying Diversity: “I don’t need to be in the MCU, I’m Nic Cage.”

He’s set to play Superman alongside Barry Allen, who destroyed Miller’s timeline, and veteran actor Michael Keaton. Keaton, who actively featured in the trailer for The Flash, will reprise his role as 1989 Batman in the new film, and Ben Affleck will also return as the Caped Crusader. Sasha Calle plays another Kryptonian, Supergirl.

“Worlds collide in The Flash as Barry uses his superpowers to travel back in time to change the events of the past,” reads the official synopsis for Warner Bros. and DC. But when his attempt to save his family inadvertently ages the future, Barry finds himself trapped in a reality where General Zod (Michael Shannon) has returned threatening annihilation and there are no superheroes to turn to. That is, unless Barry can convince a very different Batman to come out of retirement and save an imprisoned Kryptonian… though not the one he’s looking for.”

Cage’s introduction comes as new DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran storyboard their next Superman themed marquee, Superman: Legacy, as they build (and revisit) the last decade’s DCEU canon.