Check Out Nicolas Cage's Costume Test For Tim Burton's Scrapped SUPERMAN LIVES

Check Out Nicolas Cage's Costume Test For Tim Burton's Scrapped SUPERMAN LIVES

Ever wanted to see Nicolas Cage in skin tight blue spandex? Here's your chance! We've seen a lot of leaked photos and concept art for Tim Burton's scrapped 1990s Superman Lives movie, but now the first test footage has surfaced thanks to an upcoming documentary. Check it out!

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By JoshWilding - Jul 03, 2015 03:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Superman
Source: Los Angeles Times
Upcoming documentary The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? will see director Jon Schnepp examine why exactly Tim Burton's planned movie starring the Man of Steel never happened. In the clip below, there are interviews with many of those who were involved with Superman Lives, as well as some new concept art and the first footage of Nicolas Cage in costume as Superman. It's for a costume test and sees Burton and Cage discussing the pros and cons of the suit. Would the movie have worked in the '90s? It looks pretty hideous now, that's for sure! 

To watch the video, simply click on the image below. 

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GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 7/3/2015, 4:02 PM
HE LOOKS LIKE A TOY.
mistral1
mistral1 - 7/3/2015, 4:04 PM
Cage would have been a horrible Superman, thank God this never saw the light.
zephyrrr
zephyrrr - 7/3/2015, 4:07 PM
We should be grateful that this movie never got made. It was on track to be a disaster, but now some adoring fanboys are retrofitting it to have supposedly been the greatest thing never made.

I mean...look at the people involved:
- Nic Cage is a joke
- Burton hasn't made a good film in 20 years
- The producers were a joke, look at Kevin Smith's talk about how Jon Peters didn't understand Superman at all (on YouTube)

Trash film.
Vaughan007
Vaughan007 - 7/3/2015, 4:10 PM
Bullet Dodged! Although, I am looking forward to watching the documentary.
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 7/3/2015, 4:21 PM
As someone who's read the script....

It would have been better than Man of Steel and Superman Returns. I liked the script.
TheEpicJuicebox
TheEpicJuicebox - 7/3/2015, 4:23 PM
i want there to be a kickstarter to get this film back into production
NeoBaggins
NeoBaggins - 7/3/2015, 4:31 PM
No matter how curious I am about how it would have been. It would have changed the time line. There's no telling how its success or failure would have affected the genre as we know it today.
Himura
Himura - 7/3/2015, 4:32 PM
Part of me wants to see it. Call me crazy but a tiny piece of me believes this couldve been a pretty good movie.
String
String - 7/3/2015, 4:37 PM
Nicolas Cage was notorious for being hellbent on playing a superhero back in the '90's & early 2000's. He did go after Iron Man back in 1997 when the movie rights belonged to New Line Cinema. He pushed Johnny Depp out of the way in order to score Ghost Rider in 2001. No surprise, Cage went after playing Superman. Especially, if Tim Burton was directing the movie. Nicolas Cage would be exactly the type of actor Burton would had gone for.

Seriously, if anyone groans about this direction for Superman -remember, Burton started the successful Batman franchise with Michael Keaton.. Cage may seem an odd choice to play Superman but who knows if it would had worked back in the day. I think the main issue here is the amount of freedom the WB gave to Burton in making Superman his own vision. People always criticize Marvel for keeping to their vision -but Superman Lives is a perfect example of what other studios risk when they give too much freedom to one director.
MrShow
MrShow - 7/3/2015, 5:32 PM
It's not that simple. I clicked it, then it wanted me to install Flash... nope.
CombatWombat
CombatWombat - 7/3/2015, 5:35 PM
Hey ... I would have liked to see this too.
CombatWombat
CombatWombat - 7/3/2015, 5:36 PM
Sure it might have been shit, but I'd still at least liked to have seen it.
Bodwulf
Bodwulf - 7/3/2015, 6:25 PM
Would have loved to see Burton's idea of Superman on the screen.
AlternateNo4
AlternateNo4 - 7/3/2015, 6:51 PM
Everything about this looks pretty cool EXCEPT for cage. I can't stand him in anything. I survived Drive Angry by fantasizing about Amber Heard, but other than that I avoid him like dirty needles.
tswwrestling
tswwrestling - 7/3/2015, 6:57 PM
What da hell did I just see? I know I cant unsee it >:(
darkraven
darkraven - 7/3/2015, 7:16 PM
I always felt that this movie was one of those crazy films that walked a tightrope on being good or absolutely stupid and I don't know whether that uneasiness was based on the production stuff that has filtered down over the years or that fact that Jon Peters was running the show. Either way I would have loved to have seen the finished product. I guess it will always be a great unknown. I will say this, the muscle on the suit looks all suite and not Cage.
marvelstudios
marvelstudios - 7/3/2015, 8:41 PM
What the hell is this?!
tvor03
tvor03 - 7/3/2015, 8:54 PM
Nicolas Cage may be a joke now, but in 1998 he was THE man! The Rock, Con Air, and Face/Off were all kick ass movies and this was slated to be made right after them.
Foolsgoldfinger
Foolsgoldfinger - 7/3/2015, 9:32 PM
Burton had as much passion for this as he had with Batman. Cage was (and is ) one of the biggest Superman fans around. If the movie got made, It could have been good...it could have been bad, but I'll bet either way it would have become a huge cult movie. I for one wish it had gotten made. Have some imagination. Even if it bombed (like many other CBMs have)it wouldn't have slowed down the business. Looking forward to the docu.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 7/3/2015, 10:24 PM
Glad we got to see it in motion, because that still image that circulates around is sort of incomprehensible to me. It's like someone transplanted Nick Cage's head onto an action figure.
LoudLon
LoudLon - 7/3/2015, 11:11 PM
@zephyrrr -- To be fair, this was twenty years ago. And twenty years ago...

1. Nic Cage wasn't a joke at the time. He'd just won an Oscar for Best Actor in Leaving Las Vegas, and it was the early stages of his mainstream action movie career.

2. Tim Burton was still at the height of his game, coming off the critical success of Ed Wood.

The Jon Peters thing is true, though. Most CBM fans will recognize him as one of the producers of Tim Burton's Batman, but he's also one of the two producers involved with some huge back-door Hollywood scams back in the late 80s/early 90s. The guy got lucky with a few of his projects but for the most part, he was little more than a con man. Check out a book called Hit and Run: How Jon Peters and Peter Gruber Took Sony For a Ride in Hollywood, from '96. How those guys got into the business and the shit they got away with is crazy.
TheSoulEater
TheSoulEater - 7/4/2015, 4:41 AM
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