Nicolas Cage will play Superman, marking a return to the role for Cage, who was cast in Tim Burton’s ‘Superman Lives’ 25 years ago.
“Nic was absolutely wonderful,” Muschietti said, quoted by Deadline. “Although the role was a cameo, he dove into it. I dreamt all my life to work with him. I hope I can work with him again soon.”
“He is a massive ‘Superman’ fan. A comic book fanatic,” Muschetti said.
Cage isn’t the only veteran returning in a cameo. Michael Keaton will reprise his role as Batman, which he played twice in 1989 and 1992 Tim Burton films, and Ben Affleck is also on board as Batman in a DC multiverse twist.
Nicolas Cage to cameo as Superman in upcoming ‘The Flash’ movie. He was actually going to be Superman in a Tim Burton Superman Lives movie before it was canceled pic.twitter.com/bC3v8pjHT9
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Cage recently talked to Variety about Superman Lives, speculating that the studio got cold feet about how weird it was getting and pulled the plug. “It was more of a 1980s Superman with like, the samurai black long hair. I thought it was gonna be a really different, sort of emo Superman, but we never got there.”
