Nicolas Cage has said that Warner Bros was too “scared” to make Superman Lives.
The actor has spoken about the aborted Tim Burton Superman film, in which he had been cast as the starring role.
“Look, I’m not going to be one of these guys that’s going to be, like, lamenting things,” he told Metro.
“But is Tim Burton one of my favorite directors? Yes. Did I see some of the drawings of where he wanted to go? Yes. And I will tell you, they were fantastic and it would have been a mind-blowing experience.
“Did I have a concept of how to play the character? Yes, and I can tell you it would have been gutsy. So maybe Warner Brothers got scared because they had two artists that weren’t afraid to take chances.”
Nic Cage added that he no longer reads comics.
“Look, the truth is I’m not obsessed with comics,” he said. “I don’t read comics as a 49-year-old man. Not that there’s anything wrong with that but I have other interests that are more in tune with where I’m at right now.
“But I’m loyal and I will never forget the impressions that comics gave me as a child.”
Cage will next be seen in Tokarev and the Armageddon epic Left Behind.
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