Synopsis
The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? (2015) is a documentary by Jon Schnepp you can watch online on iFILM. It opens up the superhero blockbuster that never got made.
In the late 1990s, Tim Burton signed on to direct, Nicolas Cage was cast as the Man of Steel, and producer Jon Peters pushed his own wild ideas onto the script. Concept art, costume tests, a ballooning budget — then Warner Bros. pulled the plug weeks before cameras rolled. Schnepp tracks down the people who lived it: Kevin Smith, Burton himself, writers Dan Gilroy and Wesley Strick, costume designer Colleen Atwood.
What emerges is a rare, unguarded look at how a giant film dies — no villain, just money, ego and studio nerves. It's catnip for fans of behind-the-scenes lore and the what-ifs of comic-book cinema. Stream The Death of "Superman Lives": What Happened? (2015) online on iFILM.
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