The actor, who has already voiced an animated Man of Steel, would surely leap at the chance to play him in the forthcoming superhero movie
As rumours go, the one this week that Nicolas Cage might end up starring as Superman in Warner Bros’ Flash movie takes some beating. There’s every chance it was dreamed up to create waves in the blogosphere on a slow news day. Yet it is tantalising nonetheless, largely because this is just the sort of role no other
Actor in
Hollywood but Cage would take on.
He is, after all, the actor who felt he was perfect for the role of Kal-El in Tim Burton’s abortive Superman Lives, despite all evidence to the contrary. The excellent 2015 documentary The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? even unearthed footage of the actor in costume, revealing a version of the last son of Krypton resembling a cross between Alice Cooper and an extra from Rollerball. And yet herein lies even more plausibility, for we already know The Flash is set to star Burton’s Batman, Michael Keaton, as a version of the caped crusader who Barry Allen meets after crossing into an alternative reality. Given that Superman Lives would have connected to Burton’s Batman films, why shouldn’t Burton’s Superman also appear?