Kevin Smith Wrote Nicolas Cage's Axed 'Superman' and Was Forced to Add a Giant Spider; He Now Says Its 'Badass' After Watching 'The Flash'
about watching “The Flash.” The film and that Cage-as-Superman cameo near the end is a full circle moment for Smith, who was the screenwriter of the studio’s infamous “Superman Lives.”
One of the big sources of contention during the development of “Superman Lives” was producer Jon Peters’ insistence that Superman fight a giant spider. Smith was forced to add the spider to his script as one of three Peters-mandated requests , although he’s now finally open to the idea after seeing “The Flash.”pops up in the film during a scene in which the multiverse is ripped open and Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen takes a peek into different worlds.
When asked if he likes the giant spider now, Smith answered: “You know what? He wasn’t wrong. Like, it totally could have panned out.”“He had just seen ‘Dead Man Walking,’ and he goes, ‘Look at [Sean Penn’s] eyes in that movie. He’s got the eyes of a violent animal, a caged killer,'” Smith said. “And I was like, ‘Bro, it’s Superman!’ So he’s like, ‘Who do you see?’ I always loved Nic Cage, so I was like, ‘Nic Cage loves Superman. He talks about knowing the comics real well.
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