The director of the upcoming superhero crossover event just dropped a massive spoiler for comic book fans: the existence of a major cameo we’ve all been waiting years for.
as her cousin, Superman. Yep: Nic Cage is finally gonna play Superman.If you’re well-versed in the history of live-action DC Comics adaptations, you understand why this is a fully bold-and-italics-worthy announcement. It’s not just that Cage “is a massive Superman fan,” as Muschietti says in the interview, which helped make the cameo happen. It’s also that Cage has aspired to don the blue-and-red leotard for decades.
, Superman’s original Kryptonian name, after all. Years before Kal-El was born, though, Cage made a failed attempt to star in his own Superman movie. It was a big, expensive, public backfire—one that left Superman movies in flux for years. While the character was popularly imagined on screen by Christopher Reeve in the late 1970s/early 1980s, by the 1990s, Superman had become dormant. (Blame part of this on the fabled “
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