Nicolas Cage Says He Brought Tim Burton On For ‘Superman Lives’ But ‘Mars Attacks!’ Killed The Project
Once upon a time rather famously, Nicolas Cage was going to play Superman in “Superman Lives,” a new incarnation from Tim Burton in the 1990s that would have pitted the Man of Steel against the alien villain Brainiac. Burton had previously directed “Batman” and “Batman Returns,” essentially reviving the superhero genre for a modern audience, but as Cage tells Rolling Stone Magazine in a recent interview discussing his latest films, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” the studio seemed to have soured on the director and the project eventually dissolved.