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Two movies with full script, actors, in production that were cancelled in process. I heard a lot about these on YouTube and heard them read the entire JLM script by the actors and writers, seen the concept art and more. I heard a lot about SL script too and both sound amazing. If these were made it would be box office successes but sadly they won't be so why not use the original scripts, original casted actors still around, best animation today and sound effects and make them both into animated movies direct to blu ray which both around 2 1/2 hours long features.These blue ray movies would be great films and my question is:
If they ever make Superman Lives, we had better get a giant spider, Lexiac fighting polar bears at the Fortress of Solitude and a capeless Superman with the crazed eyes of a killer or GTFO.
This is something I've often pondered. The unmade movies fascinate me, I've researched them a lot and some of the actual scripts are actually online; Here's a table read for Justice League Mortal
According to the 'The Death of Superman Lives, What Happened?' documentary Tim Burton fired Kevin Smith so he would have never directed his movie, but with the script, concept drawings and those images Nicholas Cage as Superman that movie feels almost within touching distance. You can almost get a taste of what might have happened.
From Wikipedia
"In November 2016, Kevin Smith said that he was open to having the Superman Lives script be adapted as an animated film, with Nicolas Cage voicing Superman and Michael Rooker voicing Lex Luthor.[28]
In October 2017, Batman vs. Two-Face writer Michael Jelenic stated that he originally pitched an animated film based on Smith's Superman Lives script, saying that Warner Bros seriously considered it for a long time.[29] According to Jelenic, Cage would have loved to voice Superman in the film, but the idea never materialized and Jelenic's pitch was eventually abandoned.[30] In 2018, however, it was announced that Nicolas Cage has been cast to voice Superman in the upcoming animated film Teen Titans Go! To the Movies based on the Teen Titans Go! TV show, which will be released on July 27 of the same year.[31"
So it's been mooted but never happened, so I wonder if there are legal issues or execs blocking the animated movie? There's also Andrew Kevin Walker/Avika Goldsman's Batman v Superman; JJ Abrams' Superman FlyBy and Aronofsky & Miller's Batman: Year One out there as well as a 1983 script which became Burton's Batman, but quite different.
Funnily enough I was thinking the other day as an alternative how about adapting them into audio dramas? You'd probably have to have a narrator to fill the gaps but the above scripts are well-known to many fans as they are well documented. The right company could attract Nicholas Cage?!
F yeah I’d buy them, I wish they existed as live action movies tbh. Especially JL Mortal which I think would have kick started the DC cinematic universe right there.
Yeah, animation would be nice to see the designs and such, but live action is where it's at with these two projects. I mean, Nicholas Cage as Superman fighting a giant spider in live action. Come on.
Most of the actors cast then probably wouldn't want to do it, consider it embarrassing that the film wasn't made or think doing a cartoon now would be a joke, especially trying to do Burton without Burton (and/or look down on animation or demand more money than animation can pay in general).
An animation (by the standard DC animation people) of a failed Burton project would probably indeed be mocking its ideas and intentions and posible style. If he himself was involved it would be a lot more interesting, could work.
I would love to have seen Superman Lives. However, there are ideas from each script that if combined together, perhaps with new ideas concerning the climax for example, would've made a better film by execution. That's why I couldn't quite say one script written by so-so, its all 3.
Mortal is different because it feels like a sequel, and while I'm interested, its not high on my list.
Flyby would've been great, but like Lives, needed tweaking. In this case, removing the notion that it was 1/3 of a trilogy. Just make it a solo film first, then the others later.
The original BvS? Nah. Bad movie idea that was better executed in the 2016 version (Shut Up guys)
Aronofsky & Miller's Batman: Year One is something I would want to see to see how it would've been. Its pushing it with Bruce in relation with Wayne Manor for example, etc; but its something I would welcome to see, a very, VERY grounded Batman.
KAL-EL stands in shadow, intermittently lit by the flickering fires, cloaked in the strange suit, face half-hidden by the x-ray goggles like a hip-hop Phantom of the Opera.
Two movies with full script, actors, in production that were cancelled in process. I heard a lot about these on YouTube and heard them read the entire JLM script by the actors and writers, seen the concept art and more. I heard a lot about SL script too and both sound amazing. If these were made it would be box office successes but sadly they won't be so why not use the original scripts, original casted actors still around, best animation today and sound effects and make them both into animated movies direct to blu ray which both around 2 1/2 hours long features.These blue ray movies would be great films and my question is:
I'm not a "fan"atic unlike my brother. But I am a fan of both Marvel and DC movies. And I believe that both have their good and bad qualities. Only qualms that I have with one is DC. They keep making the same movie films of Batman and Superman, and adding in the origion stories that I have gotten tired of them. And I'm sure that most feel the same. Now, on the other hand, their animes are really good. So, why don't the two companies merge, where Marvel does movies only, and DC does animes. That's just my personal opinion on that. But there are a lot of other stories that they could be doing, but because they feel "I belive", that they don't want to go off on an unknown and lose money. Of course nobody wants to lose money, but sometimes you just have to "take a leap of faith", As they say.
KAL-EL stands in shadow, intermittently lit by the flickering fires, cloaked in the strange suit, face half-hidden by the x-ray goggles like a hip-hop Phantom of the Opera.
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