2014 Movie News Archives

September 25, 2014: "Superman Lives" Documentary - Interview with Jon Schnepp

Superman Lives Jon Schnepp, the filmmaker putting together the documentary "The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened?", which delves into the story behind why the Superman film of the late 1990s (which involved Tim Burton, Kevin Smith and Nicolas Cage) was never made, spoke with Vice.com about the project, why it's taking so long to finish, and what he's learned along the way. Here's part of the interview...

    Burton worked on [Superman Lives] for two years. He told me, "I basically made the movie, it just never got shot." As a filmmaker, I can totally relate. You make the storyboards, designs - actors were cast, sets were being built. There's such a heavy amount of pre-production. Films are such a collaborative medium. When you're making something with all these different people, it becomes a transformed thing.

    I can tell when I read some of these early drafts of Superman Lives... things would've changed and transformed, especially when you see the designs that came even from Kevin's script. If the film came out in '99, it would have been a hit. It had a lighter feeling that [Burton's] other films didn't have. He wanted to show flight how it had never been seen before. And Cage had all of these great ideas of Superman as an outcast - what nerds feel like. It would've touched upon that in ways that no one had ever touched upon in any other superheroes.

    Superman was more like a kid in the corner who got laughed at all the time, but taking that to the extreme - being a visitor from another planet. You see that in all of Tim Burton's movies. He said, "I always felt like I was an alien, growing up in Burbank," and that was exactly what Nic Cage saw, too. People laughed at Nic Cage from the costume test footage, but, in the final costume, Nic Cage looks badass. I had a picture of it on my phone and would show it to people, and every skeptic says, "You know what, that's not bad." It makes me happy. You get that flip-flop.

Read the complete interview at Vice.com



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