Watch: The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened? 2015 123movies, Full Movie Online – A documentary about the proposed 1998 Superman Lives feature film that would have starred Nicolas Cage..
Plot: The Death of ‘Superman Lives’: What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of the ill fated “Superman Lives” movie, that was to be directed by Tim Burton and star Nicolas Cage as the man of steel himself, Superman. The project went through years of development before the plug was pulled, and this documentary interviews the major players: Kevin Smith, Tim Burton, Jon Peters, Dan Gilroy, Colleen Atwood, Lorenzo di Bonaventura and many many more.
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Superman Lives: what could’ve been . . . and thankfully wasn’t
A fantastic story told by an uneven documentary. The best parts (for me) were the Kevin Smith scenes. He seemed really happy to regale the audience (again) with his bizarre turn as scriptwriter for Superman Lives, and he’s a nicely expressive personality. The downside to this is that he’s not presenting anything new, and you can still get the same entertaining story in one of his “An Even With Kevin Smith” stand-ups.Outside of that, the reason to see this movie is the wealth of uncovered costume-test footage with Nicolas Cage and Tim Burton. This paints a different tale than just the pictures we’ve had on the internet for so many years. Still would’ve made for a whacko movie. The director conducts a stilted interview with Burton himself (poor lighting and all), but give the man credit; have you ever heard a Burton commentary? They’re not easy to get through.
The Death of Superman Lives is worth a watch, and it’ll hold your attention, but you can get by with Smith’s testimony of events in one of his on-stage conversations. And he makes for better subject matter.
Mehhh
When you make a documentary about a messy film you run the risk of making a messy film yourself, that’s what I feel happened here unfortunately. Too long and not gripping subject enough for a talking head doc.Should have been better structured, now it feels like the filmmaker got a lot of material and just put it together without a clear thought and without the ability to kill his darlings.
Sorry.
Positive: Tim Burton and some of the material from production that is hard to otherwise get to see.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min)
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Genre Documentary, Sci-Fi
Director Jon Schnepp
Writer Jon Schnepp
Actors Jon Schnepp, Charlie Oliver, Aaron Blossom
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
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