Superman Lives, the feature film directed by Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage, will never see the light of day, but the Volte-Face actor returned to this eccentric and notorious project.
Between two independent and offbeat films like Mandy, Willy’s Wonderland or the next Renfield, Nicolas Cage, looking in the rearview mirror to talk about an abandoned project. The famous Superman lives.
An Emo Superman Samurai Sauce starring Nicolas Cage
While Tim Burton has lost his luster and madness in recent years, it was all there when he agreed to direct Superman lives. A film that could have been the complete opposite of the films of Christopher Reeve or Henry Cavill (much later). A feature film with a kind of samurai/emo with long black hair.
And it’s that rather eccentric point of view combined with the commercial flop of Mars Attacks, which motivated Warner Bros. to shut everything down after the company injected more than $10 million. Nicolas Cage had also made his equipment, as the documentary revealed The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?.
Warner Bros. lost a lot of money on this film (Mars Attacks). These works are so bizarre, ahead of their time, and so challenging that they annoy a lot of people. I think it turned them off. However, they had already spent a lot of money making the costumes and building the sets. you never know I don’t want to play my cryptic cage, but it’s true. We cannot predict what will happen. Anyway, I loved this character. We created a Superman straight out of the 1980s, kind of like a samurai with long black hair. He would have been very different from the others, sort of an emo superman, but we couldn’t go all the way.
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The flying man returns… but without Henry Cavill
During his intervention at a ceremony organized by Variety, Nicolas Cage also states that it was he who approached Tim Burton for the film Superman Lives.
They wanted Renny Harlin (the director of 58 minutes to liveEditor’s note) to make this film, explains Cage. I ended up with Renny. I was preparing another film, he came to my trailer and we talked about all this. I liked it… But I felt that he wasn’t going to stick with this film. I said Tim Burton should direct. I called him to ask him if he would like to do it. Tim didn’t choose me, I cast him! And he said yes. I loved what he did with Michael (ketone) At Batman. I was a fan of her work. I like it very much too Mars Attacks, I always thought this film was fantastic. It’s a precursor! But exactly Mars Attacks startled the studio.
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Result of the races, no Nicolas Cage getting stuck and we also lose Henry Cavill in the role of the flying man. The future Superman Legacy film will be without him and his replacement has not been announced.
