{"id":34486,"date":"2014-07-25T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=34486"},"modified":"2018-12-08T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:26:07","slug":"see-the-unfinished-the-death-of-superman-lives-what-happened-documentary-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/25\/see-the-unfinished-the-death-of-superman-lives-what-happened-documentary-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"See The Unfinished THE DEATH OF ‘SUPERMAN LIVES’: WHAT HAPPENED? Documentary Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BurtonSupermanLives\"<\/a>What is it about San Diego Comic Con time and unfinished documentaries about unseen comic book films?<\/p>\n

Last year, Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s Fantastic Four <\/strong>was looking for backers around this time. Now, it’s a documentary about the failed attempt by Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage to bring Superman Lives <\/strong>to the screen.<\/p>\n

The film is titled T<\/strong>he Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? <\/strong>and will be done by producer\/director Jon Schnepp. Schnepp has created a trailer for the film, and we see immediately that he has already spoken to many of the players from that project, including Burton, initial screenwriter Kevin Smith, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura, production designer Rick Heinrichs, screenwriter Wesley Strick, costume designer Colleen Atwood, special effects supervisor Steve Johnson, storyboard artist Tim Burgard, and associate producer Derek Frey, with comic book writer Grant Morrison interviewed to provide context.<\/p>\n

Schepp also got his hands on more of the legendary test footage Nicolas Cage shot for the project, including a shot of him flying. There is also a lot of unseen production art on display.<\/p>\n

Schnepp is trying to raise the final $85,000 he needs to complete post production on the documentary. Currently, he has $7,332 of that on a fundraiser on the Fan Backed website<\/a>. And, as is typical with this sort of fundraiser, there are rewards attached to certain donation levels ranging from getting you name in the end credits for $25 to becoming a producer for $25,000 which entitles you to every other perk from every other tier plus busts of Nicolas Cage and Brainiac from the movie.<\/p>\n