In the late 1990s, director Tim Burton was tapped to direct Superman Lives with Nicholas Cage as the Man of Steel. The project generated a fair amount of buzz at the time and even entered the pre-production phase, but a combination of script rewrites, personality clashes, and studio politics eventually doomed the effort. After roughly four years and more than $30 million invested, the book was closed on Superman Lives. Well, almost.
Producer and director Jon Schnepp has decided to turn his fascination with Burton’s unmade superhero film into a documentary to examine what the movie might have been like and what actually kept it from being produced. He has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the effort and hopes to interview Burton, Cage, and other key players who worked on the abandoned project.
(Shout-out: Bleeding Cool)
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