shaz619
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The one Nic Cage performance that I would have loved to see that we sadly missed out on, was him as Superman in the cancelled Superman Lives. The film was supposed to come out in 1997 and be directed by Tim Burton, working off a script by Kevin Smith and starring Nic Cage as the Man of Steel. Cage is a massive comic book and Superman fan. He literally changed his name from Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage after the comic book character Luke Cage, so people would take him at face value rather than for him being the nephew of the greatest American directors that ever lived. He also owns Superman #1 and named his son Kal-El, which tells what a big fan he is.
So I am certain that movie would have been amazing. The story would have included Brainiac and Doomsday, two of the best Superman villains after Luthor. But studio interference ruined it and ultimately they closed the film down.
Am not a huge fan of Supes but am certain Cage would have been tremendous in the role, what did you think of his cameo in The Flash! his childhood self must have been so chuffed with that aha
Burton and Cage would have created magic