Pic of Nick Cage as Superman (Possibly Real?)

[Redskull]

um none of those links work, none of them do. so i dont know what you guys are even looking at.

[phantom stranger]

um none of those links work, none of them do. so i dont know what you guys are even looking at.

http://www.youtube.com/user/timburtonjp

[greggbray]

You know,

While I find the Cage casting dubious at best, the rest of the art department considerations, even the costume (which is a leap up from Routh's IMO), looks pretty interesting.

It's a shame Jon Peters screwed the whole damn thing up, there may have been an interesting (if not faithful) film adaptation in there somewhere.

[gordonblu]

I love the Burton-drawn concepts for Brainiac; very 50's sci-fi with the usual Burton flair. Not sure how rabid Superman fans would feel though.

As an actually articulate youtube poster in the comments pointed out, Brainiac's face looks a little like Davros from Dr. Who. Yet another reason for me to like it I guess.

[Kamdan]

If you look at page 227 of the book Superman vs. Hollywood, there is a passage that details that Cage took snap shots of himself in the prototype Superman suit so he could show it to his son. That's one of the snap shots, so it's real.

[gordonblu]

If that was a prototype, then more than likely the finished version would have looked 10 times better.

[Kamdan]

Mmm-hmm. That's the case. I also recall hearing that the prototype resembled a plastic figure and what does it look like?

[gordonblu]

The prototype is kind of like a foreign bootleg of a Kenner action figure.


the final costume might have been somewhat like this...

[The Dark Knight]

Judging by the concept art, the alien side would have been really emphasied. I actually would have liked people to have referred to him only as Kal-El during the movie. I think the film would have had him odd in a way that a legitmiate visitor would be. I guess Superman started out in the 'traditional' suit with his long hair and drug hazed look - which he sees no problem with, and then evolved after his death. The new suit literally grows onto his dead body like a symbiote, rejuvinating him in the frozen wasteland that is the Fortress of Solitude. Hence his white skin. As life breathes back into his body, the symbiote strengthens into it's true form and colour, and Kal-El puts the cape on afterwards. Zombies and all that jazz is pure Burton material.

[gordonblu]

The only problem I have with that synopsis is that it sounds like a Bizarro/Venom hybrid. I also do not like Superman with long hair, it just doesn't seem right. The comics play up the boy scout angle (almost too much, admittedly),and turning him into a long-haired drug-hazed hippie  would be really against type.  Cage stated he  wanted it to be a more classic Supes, and I think the only reason he had long hair in the pic is because he was doing Con Air at that time.