{"id":10517,"date":"2010-10-29T22:32:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T03:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=10517"},"modified":"2018-11-13T23:23:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T04:23:21","slug":"another-view-of-tim-burtons-aborted-superman-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/29\/another-view-of-tim-burtons-aborted-superman-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Another View of Tim Burton&#8217;s Aborted SUPERMAN LIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know, for all the bagging people do on Bryan Singer&#8217;s <strong>Superman Returns<\/strong>, it could have been worse. And by worse, I&#8217;m talking about Tim Burton&#8217;s <strong>Superman Lives<\/strong>. It seems that every time we get another look at what the director was planning, it just gets worse. Remember a year ago when we got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/22\/concept-art-from-burtoncage-superman-film-hits-web\/\" target=\"_blank\">look<\/a> at proposed star Nicholas Cage in the Superman uniform? That was pretty awful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SupermanLives1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10518\" title=\"SupermanLives1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SupermanLives1-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have another look at how things may have turned put as makeup and special effects technician Steve Johnson has posted on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?aid=247048&amp;id=183083583928\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> page a gallery of photos taken while he was working on the Burton film developing a different take on the Superman suit that we saw Cage in. While I think that if this would appear in some non-Superman film it would be pretty impressive, but its just too much of a radical departure from the standard Superman look to work. I do like the stylized S-shield, though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SupermanLives2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10519\" title=\"SupermanLives2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SupermanLives2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a choice couple of looks at what Johnson was working on. Check out his 22 picture gallery for more behind-the-scenes pictures of a film that never was.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SupermanLives3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10520\" title=\"SupermanLives3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/SupermanLives3-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">You know, for all the bagging people do on Bryan Singer&#8217;s Superman Returns, it could have been worse. And by worse, I&#8217;m talking about Tim Burton&#8217;s Superman Lives. It seems that every time we get <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/29\/another-view-of-tim-burtons-aborted-superman-lives\/\" title=\"Another View of Tim Burton&#8217;s Aborted SUPERMAN LIVES\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1695],"tags":[2683,3229,677],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10517","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"tag-nicholas-cage","9":"tag-superman-lives","10":"tag-tim-burton"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10517"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=10517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}