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In five days, DC’s latest movie The Flash will premiere at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. The upcoming time-travelling multiverse-traversing blockbuster stars Ezra Miller reprising his Justice League member opposite Ben Affleck’s Batman. Meanwhile, Michael Keaton is back as his Bruce Wayne for the first time in over 30 years. Rumours are abounding of cameos just as they were ahead of Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness last year. And the latest is that Superman himself will be popping up amid all the action, but it’s not Henry Cavill.
According to Giant Freakin Robot’s sources, Nicolas Cage himself will be reprising his Superman variant in The Flash. It’s said that during a test screening, there was a scene of the Oscar-winner’s Man of Steel fighting a giant mechanical spider.
If this rumour turns out to have some weight it would be the most incredible Easter egg. As Comic Book movie fans are well aware, the star was cast in Kevin Smith’s Superman Lives back in the 1990s.
Batman and Batman Returns director Tim Burton was signed on to direct for a pay-or-play contract of $5 million. Meanwhile, Cage had the same to play Superman but for a whopping $20 million.
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Cage believed he could “reconceive the character” and Burton thought his casting would be “the first time you would believe that nobody could recognise Clark Kent as Superman, he could physically change his persona.”
The star had a costume fitting in the Superman suit while sporting long hair, but by April 1998 Warner Bros had put the movie on hold even though they’d already spent $30 million on it. Two years later Cage dropped out of the project but would end up voicing Superman in the animated movie Teen Titans Go! To the Movies. Here’s hoping he actually turns up in the latest DC movie though.
The Flash hits cinemas on June 16, 2023.
