Nic Cage as Superman: REVEALED!!!

[Earth 2 Chris]

It seems legit. If so, thank Rao this never got made!!!

Superman Homepage - News (http://www.supermanhomepage.com/news.php)

Chris

[ScottA]

OUCH!!

[palitoy]

My eyes!

[Riffster]

thank god that never got made

[kingdom warrior]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a giant bowl of Turd that would have been!!!!

[jds1911a1]

It fits based on the info from the hist channel special included in the movie tin set but the pic looks more like an artist rendition (somethin about the hirline/wig on nick is off with the angle of his face to me) but who knows after all he is a hairpiece guy like willis to fit the role in the film but I can't see a wig that bad for a costume promo shot if the time was taken to make the costume

regardless Timm Burton's work was too creepy for superman.

what this franchise needs is someone who is a longtime superman comic fan like Raimi was for spiderman to get it on track (since Singer showed someone who is only a fan of the Donner/salkind films can't). No idea who that might be though

[Earth 2 Chris]

The Superman Homepage is reputable, and my thinking is, if someone had photoshopped Cages head onto a body they would have lost the necklace he has on. Superman did have long hair at the time, and this was around the time Cage sported it for Con Air.

It could still be a fake, but it fits the shiny, rubbery description I've heard mentioned before.

Chris

[The Toyroom]

Bleech!! :yuk:

[samurainoir]

what this franchise needs is someone who is a longtime superman comic fan like Raimi was for spiderman to get it on track (since Singer showed someone who is only a fan of the Donner/salkind films can't). No idea who that might be though

JMS is a huge Superman fan. He's been itching to write the Big Blue at DC and
supposedly has one of the biggest Superman memorabilia collections.

Not saying he's got enough experience as a director (outside of his Babylon 5 eps), but given his newfound OSCAR Cred, I say give him a shot at screenplay and a producer credit.

[samurainoir]

You Decide!

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.cinematical.com/media/2009/09/nick-cage-superman092109.jpg

http://fakehustle.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/black-superman.jpg

[toys2cool]

lol! that would've been hilarious :smiley1:

[jds1911a1]

The Superman Homepage is reputable, and my thinking is, if someone had photoshopped Cages head onto a body they would have lost the necklace he has on. Superman did have long hair at the time, and this was around the time Cage sported it for Con Air.

It could still be a fake, but it fits the shiny, rubbery description I've heard mentioned before.

Chris

that is why I say artist rendition (ie done by Burtons prod staff) not photoshop which any kid can do now it's hard to tell the colot quality of the shot has an unreal palor to it and cage's eyes seem dead

but based on the sketch shown in the tv special this is what a full suit would have looked like heavily influenced by the black suit supermullet of the 90's comics

[jds1911a1]

JMS is a huge Superman fan. He's been itching to write the Big Blue at DC and
supposedly has one of the biggest Superman memorabilia collections.

Not saying he's got enough experience as a director (outside of his Babylon 5 eps), but given his newfound OSCAR Cred, I say give him a shot at screenplay and a producer credit.

ok I'm stupid (not a babylon 5 fan) who is JMS?

[samurainoir]

that is why I say artist rendition (ie done by Burtons prod staff) not photoshop which any kid can do now it's hard to tell the colot quality of the shot has an unreal palor to it and cage's eyes seem dead

but based on the sketch shown in the tv special this is what a full suit would have looked like heavily influenced by the black suit supermullet of the 90's comics

Keep in mind that they also do costume tests with the actors for production purposes that the general public never sees, generally with polaroids in the old days pre-digital and consumer grade video cameras during the eighties and nineties. Since it's not a final product and just tests, they do them quick and dirty, minus proper lighting or full hair and makeup.

In fact, if it was during Con Air as someone suggests, it could be just the costumers coming onto the set of Con Air, doing a quick fitting so that the producers and Burton can look at the polaroid and get a sense of how it would look on Cage in a very general sense and determine what they thought was working (or in this case, not working).

[samurainoir]

ok I'm stupid (not a babylon 5 fan) who is JMS?

Sorry, I was taking the typing shortcut that I believe was introduced by J. Michael Straczynski himself back when he was still posting on Usenet Bulletin Boards at the dawn of text based internet fandom where he regularly interacted with B5 fans online.

Straczynski is best known as the writer/creator/producer of Babylon 5 and writer/producer on many other genre and non genre shows like Real Ghostbusters, Masters of the Universe, The New Twilight Zone, Captain Power, Murder She Wrote, Jeremiah and I believe Walker Texas Ranger.

A few years ago he started writing comics with some initial acclaim, being one of the first of this new trend of TV/Movie Writers to jump over to comics along with Kevin Smith. I thought his Midnight Nation with Gary Frank was excellent.

He wrote an extended run of Amazing Spider-man with mixed reactions from fans and a few controversies, including Aunt May discovering he's Spiderman, Gwen Stacy having Norman Osborne's Goblin Babies, and his final story was One More Day, that dissolved the Spider-Marriage. He chalks a lot of this up to editorial intervention and many of the crossovers that he had to take part in. It was Joe Q who mandated One More Day, and JMS did it as a favor with regrets (having at one point requesting to take his name off of it before it went to print).

Given how enjoyable his recent run on Thor was, with his stipulation that he get to write it apart from the regular Marvel U crossover events, I think he's a writer who works best when he's left alone and outside the confines of continuity.

He's recently jumped ship to DC where he has been given the Archie characters and Brave and Bold.

He's also reinvented himself as a writer with his recent screenplay for the Oscar nominated film Changeling directed by Cling Eastwood.

[jds1911a1]

I loved capt power never got the toys but still have vhs of the show

[jessica]

Eeew!!

[Earth 2 Chris]

The rumor I've often heard said Warners execs were unsure about Cage and wanted to see him in the suit. Supposedly this photo killed the entire project. If this is legit, you can certainly see why.

Chris

[samurainoir]

I loved capt power never got the toys but still have vhs of the show

My younger brother had some of the toys that supposedly moved interactively based around signals sent out while watching the show. Never really worked like they were supposed to, but they were kind of cool... vac metallic plastic and all.

[fallensaviour]

That is the stupidest thing I have ever seen!!!
Cage as superman I never felt that was a good fit at all.

[Captain]

To back up what Chris said; I had a photo of Cage in a more traditional supersuit, that we all here figured was a photoshop, and it probably was. I got the pic from a guy at Hasbro who worked on the toys. Hasbro may have done the photoshop themselves for the toy designers (the figures were indeed well underway before the plug was pulled). Anyways, he told me when the Warners execs saw the Cage photos they went into fits of laughter, before sending this impending stinkorama to its doom. Whether this photo, or the other, its easy to believe this story!

[clemso]

Maybe that was Cage at a Halloween party? All the same not a pretty sight. The drawings/designs almost look Spawn like

[huedell]

I'll guess that the "NICHOLAS CAGE as SUPERMAN directed by TIM BURTON"
would have been an interesting watch---but doubtful I would've found it as
satisfying as I did SUPERMAN RETURNS. Either way, it's pretty definite
neither would've bourne "franchise fruition".

[samurainoir]

I think the problem with Burton's and to a lesser extent Singer's versions of Superman is that I don't really think he's an "Outsider"... Yes, Supes is the Last Son of Krypton and all that, but his story is more of a Second Generation Immigrant story. He's different, but ultimately he's got all the tools he needs to fit in, even if it is as awkward Clark Kent.

Superman is a character that should be comfortable in his own skin and with others around him.

[huedell]

I think the problem with Burton's and to a lesser extent Singer's versions of Superman is that I don't really think he's an "Outsider"... Yes, Supes is the Last Son of Krypton and all that, but his story is more of a Second Generation Immigrant story. He's different, but ultimately he's got all the tools he needs to fit in, even if it is as awkward Clark Kent.

Superman is a character that should be comfortable in his own skin and with others around him.

I don't know if I can agree with that.

Superheroes are defined heavily by their flaws and/or problems.

Superman is, after all, an alien...it's as good a chink in armor as any to
explore in a feature film IMHO.

[Mego Milk]

AWESOME!
Love it!