Miley Cyrus tried to remake Nicolas Cage's thriller “Mandy ”as a musical: 'I wanted to play Nicolas Cage'

Cyrus also named one of her dogs after the 2018 thriller starring Cage, and is now working with the film's director on her "hypnotizing and glamorous" new album.

Miley Cyrus nearly added another capital-M moniker to her growing list of career identities, as the Hannah Montana icon has revealed she once considered remaking the 2018 Nicolas Cage thriller Mandy into a movie musical — starring herself in the lead role.

The pop superstar and actress said in a recent interview that the trippy Panos Cosmatos-directed film — about a lumberjack (Cage) stalking a group of mysterious people who killed his girlfriend (Andrea Riseborough) — is one of her favorite movies of all time, and that she even named one of her dogs after the title character.

Beyond a personal connection to the project, she also said she wanted to harness its impact on her in a professional capacity by remaking the movie as a musical.

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“I wanted to play Nicolas Cage,” she told Harper's Bazaar. “I love that it’s a romance revenge story. Romance and revenge — those are some of the greatest tragedies. I forever and always will be interested in those.”

Cyrus added that she reached out to Cosmatos, though the remake never materialized. However, the pair ended up working together on Cyrus' upcoming new album.

“It was inspired by Pink Floyd’s The Wall,” Cyrus said, later calling the album a concept piece that has a “hypnotizing and glamorous" spirit that will "medicate somewhat of a sick culture" through the music.

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“My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamorous and filled with pop culture," she said, while Cosmatos told the publication that, “[The album is] more experimental than anything she’s ever done, but in a pop way that I love."

Cyrus, 31, recently mounted one of the most successful periods of her music career with the release of her 2023 album Endless Summer Vacation, which spawned the No. 1 smash "Flowers" and courted the performer her first ever victories at the Grammys.