Nicolas Cage says the Superman Lives scene he filmed for The Flash was completely different from what appeared in the final film

Nicolas Cage talks about the cameo he filmed for The Flash this summer, how it was presented in the final film, and his thoughts on integrating AI into cinema.

The 59-year-old actor appeared in a brief cameo in the Andy Muschietti-directed film released last June, which starred Ezra Miller.

The Academy Award winner said this Yahoo Entertainment It emerged on Thursday that the footage used in the film was not from the Superman Lives film he worked on from 1996 to 1998 and which was scuttled after two years of pre-production.

“First and foremost, I was on set,” Cage said of the role amid online debate over whether the outtakes were derivative of the previous film, which Tim Burton was set to direct.

The actor, known for films such as Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off and The Rock, said filmmakers “spent a lot of time building the suit” for the iconic character, and praised Muschietti as “a great director” and “great guy. ‘

The actor appeared in a brief cameo in the Andy Muschietti-directed film, which starred Ezra Miller.

Cage explained the premise of his appearance in the DC Universe movie.

“What I had to do was literally stand in an alternate dimension, if you will, and witness the destruction of the universe,” he said. “Kal-El was a witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with the short time I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey.

‘I had no dialogue [so had to] convey the emotion with my eyes. So that’s what I did. I was on set for maybe three hours.”

The final product did not feature the Man of Steel, as Cage had done during filming, but instead did battle with a huge spider, which was a premise that Superman Lives producer Jon Peters would have liked to do in the scuttled film the 90’s.

“When I went to take the photo, I was fighting a giant spider,” he said. ‘I have not done that. That wasn’t what I did.’

Cage said he didn’t think the changes “so they could make me older, and I’m fighting a spider” were the result of AI, but rather CGI.

“I didn’t do any of that, so I don’t know what happened there,” he said. “I just think they did something with it, and again, I have no control over it.

‘I would literally shoot a scene, maybe in a suit for an hour, watching the destruction of a universe and trying to convey the feelings of loss, sadness and fear in my eyes. That’s all I did.’

Cage and director Tim Burton worked on Superman Lives from 1996 to 1998, but the film was scuttled after two years of pre-production.

Cage said he appreciated the film’s use of unique Superman suit designer Colleen Atwood, put together for the scuttled late ’90s film.

The ill-fated film project was chronicled in the documentary The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? from 2015.

Cage said he appreciated the film’s use of unique Superman suit designer Colleen Atwood, put together for the scuttled late ’90s film.

“I feel like the movie gave that beautiful suit that Colleen Atwood designed a chance to be seen,” she said, “and I was happy about that because she put a lot of thought into that series.”

Cage also commented on his views on AI, which have been a key issue in the ongoing SAG-AFTRA attack, after his Superman Lives collaborator Burton told BFI in September that he was “in silent rebellion against” the use of AI in films.

“I understand where Tim is coming from,” Cage said. ‘I know what he means. I would be very unhappy if people took my art… and appropriated it. I understand. I mean, I agree with him on that. AI is a nightmare for me. It’s inhumane. You can’t get more inhumane than artificial intelligence.’

Cage spoke with the outlet to promote his new film Dream Scenario, which will open in select theaters on November 10 and nationwide on November 22.