In the 1990s, on the back of the huge success of Batman and Batman Returns, director Tim Burton set his sights on creating a movie approximately the Man of Steel. Titled Superman Lives, the flick was to feature Nicolas Cage in the title role. It would have been the trustworthy big screen Superman movie since Christopher Reeves played the role, and would have featured three villains: Brainiac, Lex Luthor, and Doomsday. But the project eventually fell apart due in part to a string of superhero movie flops; 1997’s infamous Batman & Robin was the survive nail in the coffin.
Two decades later, Cage is detached keeping the dream alive. The actor has intersected a tiny bit with the Superman universe, having voiced him in Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, but that certainly wasn’t the big-budget live-action blockbuster we wanted.
In a current interview with GQ, Cage said there remains a distant possibility of him finally tying to play Clark Kent. “Would it matter how much time I appeared as the character?” he posed. “There might still be a chance.”
Whether we’re talking Marvel or DC, the multiverse is all the rage nowadays; perhaps a Nicolas Cage Superman will show up for a cameo achieve at some point. Funnily enough, due to a “Pay or play” command, Cage still got paid a healthy $20 million from the shelved movie.
There actually are a combine images online of Cage wearing a Superman outfit in pre-production. There’s also a lot of fan art that shows what he would look like as the iconic hero:
Cage may have missed the opportunity to play the Man of Steel on the big shroud (for now), but we have seen him as a superhero: I’m talking near Ghost Rider and its sequel Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Although granted, they weren’t the most popular of superhero movies.
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