Nicolas Cage says CGI changed Superman ‘Flash’ cameo: I did not fight that spider

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Yahoo! Entertainment Wednesday that he filmed a very different cameo as the Man of Steel for DC’s “The Flash” compared to the one that made the final cut. “First and foremost, I was on set,” Cage, 59, said, dispelling rumors that the footage of the “National Treasure” star was simply a repurposed costume test from Tim Burton’s never-made film “Superman Lives.”“What I was supposed to do was literally just be standing in an alternate dimension, if you will, and witnessing the destruction of the universe.” Cage continued. “Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with that short amount of time that I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey.”“I had no dialogue [so had to] convey with my eyes the emotion.

So that’s what I did. I was on set for maybe three hours,” the “Moonstruck” actor added. However, when the “Raising Arizona” star went to see the film in theaters, he was shocked to find out that the scene he had filmed had been replaced with a more action-packed sequence. “When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider,” Cage recalled. “I did not do that.

That was not what I did.”Cage said he does not believe that the studio used artificial intelligence to recreate him, pinning the blame instead on computer-generated imagery. “It was CGI, OK, so that they could de-age me, and I’m fighting a spider,” Cage continued. “I didn’t do any of that, so I don’t know what happened there.” “But I don’t think it [was] AI [in ‘The Flash’].

I just think that they did something with it, and again, it’s out of my control,” the “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” actor stated.