Tim Burton Disapproved of Nic Cage’s Superman Appearing in ‘The Flash’

Tim Burton is likely to be on a pause from work proper now due to the strikes. But together with his long-anticipated ‘Beetlejuice’ sequelwaiting to be accomplished regardless of being 99% accomplished, that isn’t stopping him dropping opinions.

In that discuss ‘Beetlejuice’, he additionally coated the usage of AI to create Burton-esque variations of Disney characters. He’s not, as you would possibly suspect, a fan. And he referenced the expertise once more in an interview with the British Film Institute that touched on one in all his nice unmade motion pictures, ‘Superman Lives’

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What was the story of ‘Superman Lives’?

In 1998, Burton was on the point of shoot a brand new model of Superman referred to as ‘Superman Lives’ with Nicolas Cage because the Man of Steel. The director had spent two years in intensive pre-production and had gotten to the purpose of taking pictures checks of Cage in character in his go well with (pictures of which didn’t formally emerge till 2009) when studio Warner Bros. pulled the plug on the film because of artistic variations.

Here’s what Nic Cage informed Empire in regards to the deliberate film (and its director) again in 2013:

“Tim Burton is a genius. He’s a great artist, and I’m sure he would have done something really magnificent with the story of Superman, and I knew I was going to go towards something quite unique and different than anything you’ve seen with Superman, but having said that, in a way it was a win-win for me that it didn’t work out, because the power of the imagination allows you to imagine what that might have been like. That might be even more powerful than the finished product, so I think it worked out.”

And for Burton, he has no regrets in regards to the failed mission, as he revealed within the BFI piece:

“I will say this: when you work that long on a project and it doesn’t happen, it affects you for the rest of your life. Because you get passionate about things, and each thing is an unknown journey, and it wasn’t there yet. But it’s one of those experiences that never leaves you, a little bit.”

That mentioned, he’s not happy {that a} model of Cage’s Superman –– performed by the actor himself –– confirmed up in ‘The Flash’s large, climactic parallel worlds-collide scene.

Burton on the usage of Cage’s Superman in ‘The Flash’

The large scene, which used a mo-capped Cage briefly proven, additionally has CG variations of traditional Superman and Flash characters, equivalent to Christopher Reeves’ Supes and Helen Slater as Supergirl, varieties a part of a second the place the boundaries between realities begin breaking down when Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen tries to alter the space-time continuum.

You get the sensation Burton would wish to wind time again and cease the choice to have Cage seem…

“This is why I think I’m over it with the studio. They can take what you did, ‘Batman’ or whatever, and culturally misappropriate it, or whatever you want to call it. Even though you’re a slave of Disney or Warner Brothers, they can do whatever they want. So, in my latter years of life, I’m in quiet revolt against all this.”

Still: ‘Beetlejuice 2’, coming subsequent 12 months from (checks notes) Warner Bros. And then there’s ‘Wednesday’ Season 2, from (checks different notes) Netflix.

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