Tim Burton’s Superman?

10:25 am EST September 22nd, 2009 | News | 15 Comments

Oh, the horror. Oh the blood boiling frightening horror.

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15 Responses to “Tim Burton’s Superman?”

  1. Buzz Killington says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Finally, something we can all agree on.

  2. calling all toasters says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:31 am

    Not to mention, starring crapmeister Nick Cage. If they got whoever “wrote” Transformers 2, the circle would be complete.

  3. mrak says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:52 am

    AIIIEEEE! My eyes!!!

  4. White Whale says:
    September 22, 2009 at 11:13 am

    Crisis averted gentlemen. I wasn’t crazy about the last Superman flick, besides Spacey being Luthor(excellent!). I am waiting to see what is next down the pike for Supes. Lord knows I will be busy with Green Lantern, Thor, Avengers etc…:)

  5. SaveFarris says:
    September 22, 2009 at 11:15 am

    I can definitely see that fighting a giant mechanical spider.

  6. JustMe says:
    September 22, 2009 at 11:19 am

    It is a little known fact that Tim Burton neither reads nor likes comic books. Proposed scripts in the Tim Burton project had Superman being unable to fly himself and instead getting around in a flying car.

  7. steve says:
    September 22, 2009 at 11:53 am

    Oh, come on! That’s a plastic action figure with Cage’s head photoshopped on. Look at the obvious joint between the arms the the torso.

    I also noted that the “video” at timburton.jp is just a series of still images. We don’t see Cage moving around in this alleged suit, as we would in a real costume test.

  8. Wilfredo says:
    September 22, 2009 at 1:00 pm

    Yeah, I was worried about this one, and was damned glad when the project was scrapped. Not that Singer’s Superman was much better…

  9. Pryme says:
    September 22, 2009 at 1:35 pm

    I know this sounds crazy, but until Warner Bros. decides to give either Spielberg or M. Night (you read correctly) a call, they’ll be walking on eggshells with every Superman movie. As the Batman and Spider-Man franchises proved, you need to find the right director.

  10. Buzz Killington says:
    September 22, 2009 at 2:17 pm

    Oh, come on! That’s a plastic action figure with Cage’s head photoshopped on. Look at the obvious joint between the arms the the torso.

    I think that was preferable to putting him in an actual costume.

  11. Jay says:
    September 22, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    At least he has a cape. When producer Jon Peters first met with Kevin Smith, he told him that he didn’t want Superman to have a cape and in the movie you wouldn’t see him fly. I kid you not. This is the vision Peters had for Superman and Nick Cage was the guy to do it.

    10 years ago Nicolas Cage would have been a very intriguing choice for this kind of role. But now? The dude’s hairline is receding almost as much as Lex Luthor’s. And that pic? Good Lord. It’s what we all pictured guys in KISS looked like without makeup. The idiotic costume is reminiscent of that horrible leather outfit that Ben Affleck wore when he ruined ‘Daredevil.’

  12. jojo says:
    September 22, 2009 at 3:44 pm

    As someone who uses the program on a daily basis, I can tell you it’s pretty obviously a Photoshop, guys.

  13. Dr. Psycho says:
    September 22, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    To be fair, I think Burton was thinking more of the original Joe Shuster image of Superman, who was thinner, longer-faced and had a capacity for shocking acts of violence — in other words, rather more like a Nicolas Cage character: http://kleinletters.com/Blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/superman1.gif

  14. Randy Brown says:
    September 22, 2009 at 8:12 pm

    Jon Peters? Barbra Streisand’s ex-hairdresser/boyfriend? Who, with Peter Guber, almost killed Columbia Pictures? WTF is HE still doing in the industry?

    Now, if the all-new, all-different DC Entertainment had let Kev Smith adapt his run on Green Lantern, I MIGHT have been interested…

  15. Duros62 says:
    September 24, 2009 at 5:27 pm

    Bizzarro Superman, maybe. Maybe.

    This was all a long time ago, though, right?