So we can find a still from test footage of a "Superman" movie staring Nicolas Cage. A "Superman" movie that thankfully never came to be.Ordinarily, I like Nicolas Cage movies, and was watching parts of "Ghost Rider" earlier this evening.
I remember one reviewer who said of that movie "If you must see one burning skeleton on a motorcycle movie this summer, let this one be it!"
What a costume Cage has as Superman. It looks like it is made of baked Plastigoop from the old "Thingmaker' toy. Does anyone else remember the Thingmaker? It was what little boys had when girls had the Easy Bake Oven. Instead of little muffins (or whatever girls made in those ovens, I had no idea), boys got to bake up rubber bugs and crabs.
Here is an article about the aborted "Superman" movie, also with this illustration. Something about the photo looks odd to me. Is it it just me, or do the arm joints and plastic sheen make it look like someone popped a photo of Cage on an action figure?
The article also has a video with supposed pre-production designs for Tim Burton's "Superman Lives", that run the gamut from an Edward Scissorhands take on the Man of Steel to designs of a more zombie/Frankenstein look.
18 comments:
Actually, I had both a Thingmaker and and Easybake oven.
Did you make bug-cakes?
That is pretty disturbing, thank got that movie never made it.
The photo looks more appropriate for a vampire movie.
There are so many weird things about that photo that I'm not even sure where to start.
I had a thingmaker and my sisters had the easy bake oven.
Cage as Superman? Ek!
Okay all you BRAGGARTS! I didn't have EITHER. NO bug-cakes for ME! **reaches for Kleenex**
Now the picture...it's scary! Are you sure it's not some horror film? It DOES look like Cage's head was popped onto a plastic body! And doesn’t his neck look way TOO long? Where was this photo taken, I wonder? There’s a sheet for the back drop…do you see the plant? That’s weird!
I think laura b's comment summed up that picture well. I don't even know where to start.
How about Shaq as Superman? It happened. A movie called "Steel". The character in the comic book was a version/reflection of Superman, but I understood that they removed any connection to Superman for the movie.
I only saw one Shaq movie (the genie one). He was OK, the movie was lousy. The problem is that he came across with an actor of unimpressive voice presence. On the opposite end of the scale from, say, James Earl Jones or Alan Rickman.
And thanks for visiting, Anali. Your recent Haiti Online Bake Sale post is a worthwhile one to read.
We had a thing maker. I still remember that smell.
Nick Cage looks a little like Tiny Tim the ukulele player was always on Johnnie Carson in the 70's in that photo.
Churlita: Yes, that's it! I can remember that smell too.
And good point on the Tiny Tim resemblance. Regardless of whether or not the photo was faked, one of the original sources was probably a real photo of Cage looking like Tiny Tim.
I had a Thingmaker oven that made the creepy vampire fangs, scars, and evil fingernails with the Plastigoop. In fact, I think I still have it somewhere in storage because I couldn't make myself throw it away.
BTW I never had an EasyBake Oven... not that there was anything wrong with them, but as a kid, I thought they were lame.
Thanks for making me remember something I hadn't thought about in a while.
I had a Thingmaker oven that made the creepy vampire fangs, scars, and evil fingernails with the Plastigoop. In fact, I think I still have it somewhere in storage because I couldn't make myself throw it away.
BTW I never had an EasyBake Oven... not that there was anything wrong with them, but as a kid, I thought they were lame.
Thanks for making me remember something I hadn't thought about in a while.
Man, that is ABSURD! Have you seen his new one with Herzog? The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans?
I could almost see Cage as Superman if he had a Clark Kent haircut and a standard costume. He has a heroic chin, at least. But this outfit is a pathetic joke. If this is how Cage planned to appear, it's a good thing the idea bombed.
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