A friend showed me the video years ago. Every few months when I'm bored I watch it again. Never seen a Kevin Smith movie I think but the whole story is just crazy and hilarious.
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Kevin Smith's story on his cancelled 'Superman Reborn' movie is still one of the most insane Hollywood stories ever.
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Now I kind of want to see Superman fight a giant spider, too.
That has to have happened at some point. That's such a generic moster design that for all of Superman's long history, he must have fought at least one giant spider at some point.
That has to have happened at some point. That's such a generic moster design that for all of Superman's long history, he must have fought at least one giant spider at some point.
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The part where he talks about Jon wanting to cast Sean Penn as Supes is still fucking hilarious to this day
If you're really interested in stories like this read Tales From Development Hell, one of the best books about unmade films ever.
Why are Superman's cheeks so... pronounced? He looks tired.
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This was exactly my thoughts too. I keep hoping one day Warner Animation will announce they're working on an animated version of this with Burton, Cage and Smith on board.
Hey, after Return of the Caped Crusader, anything's possible.
Supes could kind of use something like this right now. Look at all the hype over the Crisis on Infinite Earth's thing.
Fuck, they should just drop everyone's jaw and get Nic Cage for that!
Bless Christopher Nolan. I wish someone on Marvel TV has the clout to pull this on Perlmutter like Feige did.Whoa didn't know Nolan banned him from the set.
Tim Burton is well on record for despising comic books and the like.
I love how in the Superman Doomsday animated movie they had Supes fight a giant robot Spider and then got Kevin Smith to voice a character saying how stupid the fight was.
He's one of the best, and he can really go on. There was one special he did (maybe Too Fat for 40?) where at the beginning he said he was going to take a bunch of questions and riff quickly so he didn't bog the thing down, and then he got asked his first question and told the guy to sit down, then he spent a solid hour getting to answering it.
Kevin Smith is a hell of a story teller.
I mean thats a great story anyway. But he really sells it.
I mean thats a great story anyway. But he really sells it.
Here's a 2017 Hollywood Reporter piece on the producer that Smith is talking about. It's fucking insane
Thanks for the recommendation. I like to read these kind of behind the scenes tell-all kind of books from time to time ("Live from New York" about the different eras of SNL and "The War for Late Night" about the late night talk show rivalries of the 90s-00s were both pretty good reads), so I went ahead and grabbed this. Looking forward to checking it out.
Wow, this is new to me. I've seen the seen the photo but this footage is insane. I know Cage loves the hell out of Superman but man he did not look the part.
What I find most interesting is how he was willing to alter his story to satisfy a producer. Shines a light on why so many comic book movies back in the day sucked so hard.
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I mean, that's how the business works. Directors and producers decide what ends up in the movie, writers turn in the script but don't really have the power to veto changes. If he had refused Peters would probably have looked for another writer to rewrite the thing
I mean, that's how the business works. Directors and producers decide what ends up in the movie, writers turn in the script but don't really have the power to veto changes. If he had refused Peters would probably have looked for another writer to rewrite the thing
Everyone needs to watch that documentary about Superman Lives that details just how fucking insane Peters was.
One day, he brought his kids into the room where all the concept art was awaiting approval for the movie and his decision making process was his kids literally ripping the artists' work off the wall and tearing apart the ones they hated.
That's how it always works and should work, the producer pays the bills. Only difference between then and now is that back then it was John Peters, nowadays its Kevin Feige. Results will obviously differ.
This is one of the funniest videos I've seen about the movie industry. I remember seeing it years ago, I still laugh about the giant spider story.
I don't really like Kevin Smith that much, but the dude is on fire on this doc. I think there are three, they are this conferences he does in universities. They're hilarious.
I don't really like Kevin Smith that much, but the dude is on fire on this doc. I think there are three, they are this conferences he does in universities. They're hilarious.