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Nicolas Cage Talks SUPERMAN LIVES; Thinks It Would Have Been "Really Special"

In an interview with MTV, the Ghost Rider actor recalls the work he and director Tim Burton did on the now defunct but still widely discussed Superman Lives. Click on to find out what he had to say about it..

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By Mark "RorMachine" Cassidy - 3/19/2013


Fans remain fascinated with and very curious about the now infamous Superman movie that might have been from Tim Burton, starring Nicolas Cage as the Man Of Steel himself. We've seen various pieces of concept art and know a little about the script from Kevin Smith, but we have yet to hear Cage weigh in on Superman Lives. Now while chatting to MTV the actor does just that. "The fact that Tim and I were pretty far down the road designing ["Superman Lives"], and I know that with Tim and where I was going to go, we would have done something really special," says Cage. "At least it's out there in the ether that that could have happened, but we don't have to make the movie. It's still interesting to people." Thanks to a very successful Kickstarter campaign to to fund a documentary called The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?, we will most likely get to find out quite a bit more about what went wrong on the production. Either way, whether her got to play Superman or not, Cage remains a huge fan of the character. "I do think that I had the win-win situation, because that character is such a bullseye that you have to hit. He's one of the most precious icons of our country."







Source: MTV Splashpage
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jerryblake - 3/19/2013, 9:36 AM
I wonder more what would happen if Batman and Robin didn't bomb, and Warner Brothers give a green light to Schumacher to go with Batman 5 with Nic Cage as Crane/Scarecrow.

Would Clooney be back for second time too ?


dancingmonkey08 - 3/19/2013, 9:48 AM
Im sorry if Im being negative but WHO CARES?!]

If theres one thing that annoys me about this site is news articles about failed movies from years ago. Stop filling up the pages of this site with news about movies that didnt even happen. Concentrate on the upcoming movies that is happening. Who gives a [frick] what Nicholas Cage thinks about a movie that never happened! Sorry, just my personal opinion
SpideyQuad - 3/19/2013, 9:48 AM
Yes! Just think about the potential that giant spider could I have! Superman in a bold contemporary costume of black and silver! Imagine the excitement as the taxicab races through the city delivering the man of steel just in the nic of time. Picture the drama as Superman stops in mid-fight to push his bangs out of his eyes.

Yes it would have been very "special"
TheRightTouch - 3/19/2013, 10:05 AM
@jerryblake It probably would have been some other random actor that doesn't fit the role. I'm not sure who, but I'll just say, it's someone who Michael Bay would pick out.
shiverman20 - 3/19/2013, 10:08 AM
We all know what kind of 'special' this film would have been
Nomis - 3/19/2013, 10:10 AM
^ Yeah,...the Short bus kind of special.
TheDude - 3/19/2013, 10:11 AM
Special? Yeah, special Ed!
Ha sorry, had to say it.
toyman81 - 3/19/2013, 10:11 AM
make this for webseries. it might be interesting.
TheDude - 3/19/2013, 10:12 AM
Damn Internet lag!
SpectacularJoShFest - 3/19/2013, 10:12 AM
Special as in...retarded? Yeah, it would have been "special" Mr Cage.
M3T4LL0 - 3/19/2013, 10:13 AM
@ shiverman20

IS this the kind of special you're referring to?
xXkryptoniteXx - 3/19/2013, 10:15 AM
We all dodge a bullet on that one but regardless, superman is in a better position with all the right people evolve with man of steel.
superbigguy32 - 3/19/2013, 10:15 AM
They should turn this into a DC animated movie (i.e. Superman/Batman Apocalypse). Get Burton to direct, and use Cage's voice for Superman.
jerryblake - 3/19/2013, 10:17 AM
@superMANofsteel

gotta think who was hot back in that days ...
If they would go for unknown it would be Farrel.
If someone famous then ... David Duchovny
(he was second choice after Clooney )
darkknightmare2012 - 3/19/2013, 10:18 AM
i dont know why but i love hearing about this movie .. dont get me wrong im glad it didnt happen .. but still i fidn it very intersesting .. to be honest i did not like any of the scripts .. where it was kevin smiths or jj abrams .. but singer should of did better then what he did .. the suit they used for returns was just awful .. maybe they were planning on a better suit for the next movie ..
GenerationX - 3/19/2013, 10:19 AM
Yeah I gotta say this is a pretty pointless article....focus on the here and now and what is coming, not the what coukd have beens and never has beens and never will bes
beane2099 - 3/19/2013, 10:21 AM
Supermna 4 was pretty bad (yet I loved it as a kid) but I actually think this would have been worse. All the "special" jokes have been made by previous posters.
FalafelVsShawarma - 3/19/2013, 10:22 AM
well,i really want to see Superman in black/silver suit...
SpectacularJoShFest - 3/19/2013, 10:22 AM
Okay...first off,this is not a pointless article, maybe what Cage said is pointless,but that doesn't make this article not worthy...besides,you're the one clicking and commenting on pointless articles.
sephiroth211 - 3/19/2013, 10:25 AM


Special hehe.
SpideyQuad - 3/19/2013, 10:27 AM
Yeah… It was kind of pointless, but it is always fun to make fun of Nic
valeriesghost - 3/19/2013, 10:29 AM
GenerationX, just don't click on the article. Problem solved. I'm interested in this movie, along with a lot of others, making this article relevant.
Bread - 3/19/2013, 10:32 AM
@JerryBlake I thought Steve buscemi was gonna play scarecrow?
TheRightTouch - 3/19/2013, 10:33 AM
@jerryblake yea, I guess Schumacher and Bay aren't so different...
Goran - 3/19/2013, 10:36 AM
Yeah of course.... "special" in a very bad way...
jerryblake - 3/19/2013, 10:36 AM
Cage stated this on MTV

"I was in my camper. He said he was going to do another installment of 'Batman' and that he'd like me to play to Scarecrow, which would have been a lot of fun. I must admit, especially with Joel, because he and I share a similar sense of humor," Cage said, but the discussion never went further than that. "It was literally an hour lunch, and that's as far as it went."

If Buscemi was the choice, he was probably second
jerryblake - 3/19/2013, 10:39 AM
@superMANofsteel

if you haven't red it check this out. It's Batman Michael Bay style

http://my.spill.com/profiles/blog/show?id=947994%3ABlogPost%3A355506
fettastic - 3/19/2013, 10:49 AM
That kickstarter got the whole bankroll in like 4 days or something. People really want this! I'm personally psyched. I hope they get lots of interview footage from Cage and Burton so others aren't speaking for them.
fettastic - 3/19/2013, 10:50 AM
If I wasn't such a broke bastard I would have happily dropped a grand into it myself.
GenerationX - 3/19/2013, 10:51 AM
Valeriesghost, what movie? Did they suddenly decide to cancel Man of Steel and film this instead? If not then this is not a movie bit a pipe dream of Nic Cage's. This is NOT a movie
blkyank - 3/19/2013, 10:57 AM
This article is important because the events in it altered the course of CBM history and had effects the continued to be felt by WB/DC comics on film for years.I heard that the death of Superman would have been worked into the film and Michael Keaton as Batman would have had a cameo in the film.

It was only the fact that Batman and Robin bombed that caused WB(which was dominating CBM's) to step back from CBM's like a Batman 5 (Which I heard the studio was also looking at Howard Stern as Scarecrow) and Superman Lives to make room for Marvel films to get the genre back on track.

Everything we are talking about today from,Marvel Studios,
DC Entertainment,Fox,Sony was effected by that change of course.
I think that is important.
hope420 - 3/19/2013, 11:02 AM
Lets whine and talk about things that didn't happen. Come on Nick that movie was a bad idea since day one. I honestly can't see anything special coming out of that movie.
jerryblake - 3/19/2013, 11:05 AM
@Gusto ...

I gotta gift for you. Find out you made a music video.
Found it. Now I'm gonna share it. The world have the right to know.

CaptainProg - 3/19/2013, 11:08 AM
Oh no here comes the Nick Cage photo bomb!!!!!!!!
darkknightmare2012 - 3/19/2013, 11:10 AM
like i said in another post i think cage would of made a great nic fury if marvel didnt roll with sammy jackson.
Nemeres - 3/19/2013, 11:13 AM
@dancingmonkey08

I have a better question: who cares about you not caring? Did anyone force you to click on this? Didn't think so. Many of us love to find out more about failed projects, many times they're more interesting than movies that were actually made.

Don't listen to these clowns, Nic! I still love you.
sephiroth211 - 3/19/2013, 11:20 AM
Did someone call for a CAGE BOMB!!!!!
jlabatman0511 - 3/19/2013, 11:30 AM
Sephiroth thought he was special too:
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caveman - 3/19/2013, 11:31 AM
@jerryblake Thaat's too good
sephiroth211 - 3/19/2013, 11:33 AM
@jerryblake: I can't stop my body from moving!
sephiroth211 - 3/19/2013, 11:37 AM
@jla: Thought? I know i'm special!!
jerryblake - 3/19/2013, 11:45 AM
ahhh gusto ...

The good old days ... memories are coming back at full force :)
IM53 - 3/19/2013, 11:52 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNej0Nonlw0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
jlabatman0511 - 3/19/2013, 11:56 AM
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Zuriel - 3/19/2013, 11:56 AM
I want to know more about the Catwoman movie that Burton wanted to make. If WB had let him do that film, he would have done a third Batman. Then once he did Superman we could have had a shared DC universe in film before Marvel. Does anyone know how to travel to alternate universes? Or maybe create a device that lets you get movies from alternate universes on your Netflix?
IM53 - 3/19/2013, 11:56 AM
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emeraldtaurus - 3/19/2013, 12:03 PM
special is right , like someone that goes to a special school, that kind of special!
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