It’s claimed that the Nicolas Cage Superman is a big cameo appearing in The Flash movie as part of the DC Multiverse.
Nicolas Cage was set to play the Man of Steel in the canceled Tim Burton movie being developed around 1996 with a previous script from Kevin Smith.
The actor screen-tested for the role and even tried on the suit but WB passed citing budget issues.
The good news is that, assuming the rumor is true, the Nicolas Cage Superman is now canon.
According to Giant Freakin Robot, Ezra Miller’s The Flash spots Nicolas Cage as Superman fighting a giant mechanical monster, an obvious nod and reference to the Tim Burton movie that never happened which was supposed to feature similar scenes.
It’s also been said WB held the final test screening recently so it appears this may have leaked from there.
Interestingly enough, in a GQ Q&A from last year, a fan asked why Superman Lives can’t still be made today.
Cage replied, “Would it matter how much time I appeared as the character? There might still be a chance.”
It’s also known they tried bringing the actor as Superman in the Crisis On Infinite Earths crossover on The CW.
“We did reach out to Nic Cage,” producer and co-writer Marc Guggenheim revealed during an interview with Indiewire. “We reached out to a lot of people, and there were people who didn’t want to do it. There were people who would only do it for amounts of money that we could not ever afford. And there were other people who really wanted to do it, but couldn’t for scheduling. That was the case with a lot of, I have to say, the movie stars that we reached out to. The thing about movie stars is, they’re all shooting movies. And unless those movies are shooting in Vancouver, we’re kind of out of luck. But I have to say that the sheer number of actors that we did end up getting exceeded my expectation.”
The Flash travels through the Speed Force with lots of cameos
A recent rumor has offered there will be lots of cameos as The Flash travels through the Speed Force, so perhaps Nicolas Cage as Superman is among the many surprises that Barry sees as he runs from universe to universe as part of the DC Multiverse.
Check out test footage of Nicolas Cage as the Man of Steel below.
Nicolas Cage did get his chance to play the Man of Steel as he voiced Superman in the Teen Titans Go! To The Movies animated film, and Kevin Smith recently revealed the actor was his choice to play Bizarro in the canceled Strange Adventures HBO Max series.
The Flash gets officially released on June 16 but the flick will make its premiere next Tuesday at CinemaCon, so expect lots of spoilers to be released online ahead of time. Andy Muschietti is the director with the film also starring Michael Keaton as Batman, Sasha Calle as Supergirl, Ben Affleck as Batman, Michael Shannon as Zod, Antje Traue as Faora, with Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú, and Kiersey Clemons.
Nicolas Cage as Superman:
