Begging your pardon if that headline gave you a momentary heart attack...
No, the Tim Burton-directed, Nicolas Cage-starring Superman movie is not going to be made. But if the price is right, a comprehensive movie about it is.
We've all seen leaked images over the years, from the one above to pictures of a rainbow-electric costume test and capeless action figure designs. Jon Schnepp, director of many an episode of Metalocalypse and The Venture Brothers, has collected them obsessively, and wants to make a documentary that gathers it all in one place.
Though I suspect that Superman Lives would have made Batman and Robin look like Batman Begins, like Schnapp I do find myself wishing the film had been made. The memes alone would have crushed condescending Willy Wonka right in his Oompa-Loompas. And I've read two wildly different drafts of the script - one by Gregory Poirer, which featured Parasite and Silver Banshee for no particular reason save one deus ex machina when, if I recall correctly, Parasite tries to drain Superman's energy and ends up sucking the Kryptonite poisoning out of him instead; and Kevin Smith's, which really isn't as good as you may have expected, though the mandated "gay robot sidekick" named L-Ron would surely have given Scientology fits.
The greatest thing about Schnapp's proposed movie is that if he gets above and beyond what he's asking for on Kickstarter, he plans to shoot actual scenes from Superman Lives in a faux-Tim Burton style, mostly using animation. I'm not sure if that's considered okay under fair use laws, but I want to see it happen.
Here's his pitch:
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if i had a spare 10 grand i know what i would be spending it on..........i wonder how much it would take to get Nic Cage to done the costume for the Documentary and maybe to make an appearance at comic-con
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I would watch the fuck out that wreck on a documentary. In fact, there should be a musical...
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"and Kevin Smith's, which really isn't as good as you may have expected"
Yeah I never expected anything from Kevin Smith to be good.
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I would rather see a Kickstarter for the making an action figure of Nic Cage Superman..........
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Dude, the complete interview with Kevin Smith about the movie would take a single DVD. Of course I want it!
@LYT @AFMG here is the story from kevin smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk&feature=youtube_gdata_player save your money for something else. Also, anybody else having issues with viewing the site/commenting via mobile?
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Gawd, yes. Would LOVE to see this. We've all got our nerd holy grails, and this is definitely one of mine (along with actual footage - with sound - of Eric Stoltz in BTTF)
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Thoughts:
- I'd love for this movie to exist, yet I know that what they would have given us would have probably pissed me off.
- It would have been interesting to see Nicolas Cage kill a comic book character before Ghost Rider.
- I want to see this documentary.
- Some of the script seems good enough that I would like Hollywood to try again, especially with the Braniac as villain and Spacecraft.
- I'd like to start a kickstarter to talk to Sandra Bullock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZWobW6rGE#t=44s
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Every time I see that picture of Nic Cage in the Superman suit, all I think is that he looks like a bad early 1980s hair metal singer.
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That's not a picture of Nic Cage in a Superman suit. It's a picture of a Superman action figure with Nic Cage's head photoshopped onto it. In fact, the costume you see there isn't even the one they were using for Superman Lives... The real costume was more like light-up plastic wrap.
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@skrag2112 The movie should just be 90 minutes of that photo with a looping soundtrack from Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek.
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given how long this almost thing of true insanity has been talked about and become a geek legend. i for one hope the thing gets made mostly to hear in tim burtons own words what he and warners were thinking coming up with that suit. not to mention nick cages opinion once and for all about that thing and how he felt when he learned he was not going to be super man in the end. i hope this thing happens just for all the stories the ones involved could tell.
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Even better/worse/both: Considering the original costume design for the film, the time it was/would have been made, & the sheer insanity surrounding everything in the script including apparent power changes, we could see an animated Nic Cage-like Superman fighting giant spiders, surrounded by rainbows, all while looking like...This. *evil laugh*
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L-Ron was actually introduced back in the 1980's during the era when Justice League was funny. I remember liking those comics quite a bit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-Ron
You're right, though, that Smith's script wasn't very good.
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@geekzapoppin I am not a huge smith fan but the script that was going to be filmed was not the script that Smith had originally done. Peters not being a comic fan kept asking smith to change it.
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Come on guys I know there is a part deep down inside most of you that, today, if given the chance would totally want to see this happen just because of the colossal shitsplosion that would ensue. If I were a rich man I would be calling Nick up right now and tell him to dust off that costume I am sure that he kept.
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That actually sounds ridiculously fascinating. Unfortunately, I am poor. But best of luck to him!
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@rabidronnie agreed, best of luck from those of us poor in finance but rich in nerdiness
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@Gallen_Dugall Also, I see you got the Gallifreyan generator to work. What does your avatar say?
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@rabidronnie @Gallen_Dugall It redundantly says Gallen_Dugall - apparently Gallifreyans do have underscores
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@Gallen_Dugall @rabidronnie Blessed are the poor in finance who are rich in nerdiness, for theirs shall be the boundless freebie treasures of the internet.
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@Someguy @rabidronnie @Gallen_Dugall Yessssss. I shall hoard the points diligently.
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@rabidronnie have u ever watched Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters & Marvels? It is ridculousy fascinating.
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@10glfan59 I have not! Is it on an online streaming format of some sort? I have access to all the main ones (Netflix, Amazon Prime, hulu (but not hulu plus because it's a ripoff)), so I might check it out at some point if it is.
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@rabidronnie @10glfan59 I really do not know I bought the Rami Spiderman collectors edition back in the day and it come with it.
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I made eye contact!!! Am I going to die now? http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5yav1Ybhq1qcqaz5.gif
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@Canadian.Scott @10glfan59 well here it goes I 10glfan59 being of broken mind and out of shape body do here by bequeath my gif collection to canaian scott.
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@10glfan59 Oh 10glfan59 you were doing so well. Trudging along slow and steady. Then Canadian.Scott just popped out of nowhere.
http://img0.joyreactor.com/pics/post/gif-bus-car-flood-551010.gif
That sounds like something I'd like to see. I remember when that story caused a farkalanche over at the old Agony Booth forums.
Hey Luke, a suggestion: Bring back the daily lists that get posted at 8am weekdays. Nothing starts the morning off better than reading Judge Parker and the Topless Robot daily list.
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@doctor_mindbender I would and I do when one is ready by then. But there isn't always one on deck.
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@doctor_mindbender To his credit, he is doing better by making us east coasters happy by posting at 9am (6am pacific). Better then his first week when we had to wait until noon.
