World Burton's Concept Art

Use the head on the right (top), continue the spike motifs on his chin down along this body, and give him a proper right arm and I'd say we'd have a decent-looking Doomsday.


If they play up the "Kryptonian AI" angle, they could crystallize the understructure of this thing.



*koff*Bizarro*koff*...

 

I have always that Doomsday design, just don't know how they would have pulled it off back in the day though.

I have never cared for his Superman designs though. I understand the part of the story where he is powerless and healing or what have you, but there's no need to make him look like a zombie

And Noir, I am with you..I can't tell about the city. I wonder if that was supposed to be Krypton from like a flashback or something.

 

Good point.

Wonder if they were going for something like the comics did once where Braniac transforms the city with all of this futuristic tech.

Those concepts do look very interesting. With someone other than Nic Cage as Superman it would have been an experience. Not necessarily a Superman we are all use to or probably would want, but definitely a unique film.

 

Only one thing could have been worse than Singer's Superman and that's Burton's Superman.

 

The Doomsday looks like a more monsterous Parasite

 

Here is so more from James Carson's site. I haven't seen some of these before.

 

I really like the Daily planet design. The rest of Metropolis that is shown in that small pictures looks a little like the Animated series, which is cool.

 

Awesome website from Mr. Carson there.Some of those are new to me.

The Daily Planet and Metropolis looks very modern as opposed to Singer's art deco designs.

Seeing Superman's insides and veins....meh.

Warners really should release some sort of dvd and/or coffee table book with all the behind the scenes footage, photos and preproduction art from the aborted movies.

 

Yeah, you don't know how much I want to see Nic Cage's pictures. I can't remember who it was, but someone here saw it and sait it looked terrible. Anyway, your pic is my favorite concept art from Superman Lives, Noir.

 

Ok I'm confused now maybe someone can enlighten me. Ok, was the Dan Gilroy Superman Lives draft the last script written when Tim Burton was still on the project or was it written after? If it was written after then was it the Wesley Strick Draft that he was going to use for his film?

This is a link to the Dan Gilroy Draft:
http://www.awesomefilm.com/script/supermanlives-20Sep98.pdf

 

Thanks. Have you read Dan Gilroy's script?

 

No, Dan Gilroy's draft was the last that was written with Tim Burton on board to direct.

 

Looks like it is supposed to be Krypton after all.

His site has been updated with more photos and here is a link to the story on SHP: http://supermanhomepage.com/news.php?readmore=4704

Would have loved to have seen that Krypton on screen, it looks amazing.

 

Yeah it's Krypton, but they are not the designs from the Superman Lives project that Tim Burton was going to direct. These are from the Abrams, McG, and Ratner Superman Flyby Project. It even says that they are designs for Jor-El Palace, which in Abrams script I think Jor-El was a king or something.

 

Thanks for the info. They really need to release a book or documentary about all of these failed projects. It's is really something else to read about.

 

Yeah I would love to see a documentary or book about the Aborted projects. I would love to see pictures of Nic Cage as Superman and the sets they constructed for these movies.