We might ALL regret Nic Cage not doing emo Superman with Tim Burton.
“What am I going to do, put Marvel movies down?
Stan Lee is my surrealistic father.
Nicolas Cage as Ghost Rider.everett
He named me.”
Cage was, infamously, in an early iteration of Marvel’s big screen hero attempts with 2007’sGhost Rider.
While Cage may be good on Marvel movies, his kryptonite is the unmade Tim Burton-directedSuperman Lives.
Cage said Warner Bros. originally wantedDie Hard 2director Renny Harlin but Cage insisted on Burton.
“I said, this has to be Tim Burton.
I called Tim and said, ‘Would you do this?’
Tim didn’t cast me, I cast Tim, and Tim said yes,” Cage said.
“I lovedwhat he did with Michael [Keaton] andBatman, and I was a big fan.”
“They’d spent a lot of money already building the sets and the costume and what have you.
But you never know,” Cage said.
“I don’t mean to be cryptic Cage, but you never know!”
Which isn’t really a problem, Burton added, but the studio’s micromanaging was.
“We were looking at the suit and the studio and the producer were afraid of the red underwear.
So maybe that was the nail in theSuperman Livescoffin.
Better cold feet than a corduroy cape.
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