Nicolas Cage is arguably the most famous comic book fan in Hollywood, having taken his stage name from Marvel’s Luke Cage to distance himself from the Coppola dynasty. Not only that, but he got a tattoo of Ghost Rider long before he played Johnny Blaze in the 2007 blockbuster, spent $150,000 to buy Superman’s first comic book appearance in Action Comics #1 in 1997 before selling it for $2.1 million fourteen years later, and even named his second child Kal-El.
Of course, the actor also famously came close to playing the Man of Steel in Tim Burton’s abandoned Superman Lives, which remains one of the most expensive movies never made, and finally got the chance to scratch that itch when he voiced the character in 2018’s Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, the same year he also lent his vocal talents to the Noir version of Spidey in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Of course, the actor also famously came close to playing the Man of Steel in Tim Burton’s abandoned Superman Lives, which remains one of the most expensive movies never made, and finally got the chance to scratch that itch when he voiced the character in 2018’s Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, the same year he also lent his vocal talents to the Noir version of Spidey in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
- 9/27/2020
- by Scott Campbell
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