Nicolas Cage talks about his Superman cameo in 'The Flash,' calls AI 'inhumane' 

Yeah, the director got lucky. He should have dealt with what he got, but they always think they can do bigger and better. Good to know Nic was participating in the movie and it was something we likely won't see... EVER

PS2 is legit 😅

Haha. The whole movie was PS2 graphics!

​@@2HatHuddersI've actually been replaying my PS2 games as of late 🤣

Because the director is a hack that uses to much cgi. He did it with mama he did it with it - can’t stand his work.

A GIANT spider at that 🤣That scene did make sense though. It was a call out to a classic Kevin Smith and Jon Peters story. Jon Peters wanted Kevin Smith to direct Superman fighting a giant spider and Kevin Smith walked away. Also, Jon Peters then produced Wild Wild West and that movie DOES end with a giant mechanical spider. Jon Peters is OBSESSED with giant spiders

Sounds like that’s a story to be told another time😂

Every time I fight a spider it de-ages me... the sheer terror of it takes 10 years off of my life! 😭

In the comis that's just a Tuesday

@@DendelionBluIndeed. Warner Brothers appeased Peters with the WWW spider. I instantly made the connection when I saw that scene in The Flash.

Couldn't be more true

why? he is an actor he did his job and got payed,its upto the studio what to ultimatly put in the movie,to me he is just whining.

oke but did he get payed? @@RemoveYTHandles

​@@MarcustheseerActing is supposed to be about more than that.

@@Marcustheseer Imagine thinking that everyone is superficial enough to only care about getting paid in a job related to arts...

Why not just create an entirely different person from cgi and never worry about it

They didn’t use his “likeness” he actually went into the studio and filmed him scene in person, it’s just the awful de-aging software they’ve used to make him look younger

@@khalidsonawaveI never said they used his likeness.

@@PhantomFilmAustralia the first line of your comment implying that broski, just saying how it’s coming across

@@khalidsonawave No. I was implying was how the autonomy, and protection of any actor's likeness can be hijacked. I never mentioned Nicholas Cage at all. I can see how you could read into it that way though.

He made the distinction clearly.

@@cwell510 he did. It was a reference to the fact that he NEEDS to spell out the difference.

He talked about AI because that's what Tim burton has been talking about. Tim Burton was originally gonna direct nic cages Superman hence why he mentioned it. So it wasn't he NEEDS to make a distinction

@@emuman09 I think you're misunderstanding my comment.

I bring up this fact on the actor's union page repeatedly. AI is the new buzz word. Last year it was NFTs. AI uses diffusion so the end result is a wibbly wobbly nebulous mess where every frame is drawn from scratch and there is no consistency. It isn't something film can use. AI isn't going to replace actors. We've been using CGI crowd simulations for 25 years. That isn't anything new.

They deserved the failure of the flash

If I’m not mistaken, he was supposed to fight either a giant scorpion or Braniac at the end of his movie. I think they wanted to pay homage to the entire idea of the his Superman movie instead of just his version of Superman. Having him act out that scene would’ve meant more time and money.

It's literally there though....the whole scene is various mulitverse heroes reacting to the rift in space time...or whatever that was. In Nick's case....they just put in a little spider fight before that part.

@@grendlsmayeah but he’s saying they completely used cgi for his face and the emotion he put on his face wasn’t used, did u and the 16 people who liked your comment watch the same video???

@@YomamaYodaddyYobjtchassGranny No, he's saying they CGI'd him for when he's fighting the spider because he has no memory of filming that fight, not that they replaced his face in the scene he remembers filming, which is in the movie right after the spider.

Given how the movie flopped, that scene must have been so bad that someone went "Lets use CGI instead, I know it's going to be crap but at least it's better than what we currently have"

He's an actor talking about the direction he was given. That's how they see the movies they make

@@nickmyers3065mans said “POINT AND LAUGH🤓🤓”

i clicked the vid to find this comment lmao its like saying water is wet

It's not really. It was literally developed by humans

@@irreverencegaming AI stands for artificial intelligence which is nearly a synonym for inhuman.

Actually, it's inhuman. To be inhumane would mean AI is cruel.

It totally was

The producer was Jon Peters and yes, that scene was 100% that!

What an expensive inside joke

He finally got his giant spider in Wild Wild West lol @@DendelionBlu

Yup it was one of the reasons Smith walked away from the film, the producer had a thing for wanting a giant spider in a film and had been pushing for it and always got rejected, he eventually got his wish in Wild Wild West

Well, I think Nic Cage wasn't exactly fairing well at the box office. So there's at least a logic based decision there. I wanted his new movies to do great really badly, but they just didn't. 90% of the time I like his acting choices, he looks to be a consummate professional. I can only assume that Cavill was fired because his behavior was deemed to be too conservative and not black female enough. If that sounds stupid or doesn't make sense, it's because it is and doesn't.

Nic cage doesnt need to make movies with political and social agendas to be crazy in whatever role he chooses. Caville needs to have his head on straight, and its hard when netflix and WB really dont know how to handle their properties.

i heard he was trolling the head writer and just constantly rewriting stuff last second and sending it over her head. but people also say that she wanted to change a bunch from the source material and he didnt, so it’s probably more complicated than just trolling.

The Superman curse at work!

What are James Gunn, Peter Safran, Gal Gadot and Jason Mamoa's wife, those who are staying, that Henry Cavil, Ben Affleck, and all of those other likeable actors are not? There's one thing in common. *Ezra Miller, who was allowed to stay for his Flash film even after all his "issues," also has a thing in common with the first 4 I mentioned.

But it was there....the whole scene was multiverse heroes reacting to the rift in space time. For Nick....he just got a little spider fight before that....

But we literally did see him witness that. Did you forget?

You’re literally just yapping about nothing. It was literally happening in the movie.

Yeah not gonna lie guys I did totally forget that was happening. 😅 I saw the movie once and wasn't impressed so I guess I didn't care much to remember certain things. To make more sense, I feel the spider fight was unnecessary and it could have been portrayed more like "staring into the abyss" at your inevitable doom. Sorry to those I have offended with my ignorance 😂

@@m0urn1ng5tar5 The spider fight was a reference to what could have been if Tim Burtons Superman came out.

Exactly

Nobody said he was supposed to look terrified

Upset not terrified

​@@thischannelisdeletedNicholas Cage says it in the interview at 2:22.

"... trying to convey feelings of sadness and loss and terror..."

Agreed. What nice details to get.

Yep! I think he deserves a real shot at wearing the Cape.

Superman Lives not being made is one of the top 10 best things to ever happen to cinema. I wish it could've been the same with Batman and Robin. DC is being completely rebooted because for at least 45 years we've had people who never read a comic book in their life run the show. So far, the Nolan Batman and Donner Superman is the only good thing to ever come out because, unlike Burton Batman, they stand the test of time.

@@maxigol1977 this is why I stick to the DC animated movies; They are made with love and a whole lot of wonderous nerds and geeks who KNOW the material

@@dawidscheffler7152 Spot on

I will say, that I believed that Nic Cage really did look like the late 90s version of Superman. He had the long hair just like that and he was awesome! Nic Cage looked awesome in that scene. I did want to see more of that fight with the giant spider.

The annoying thing now is that they aren't honest about the production (especially when it's disney). So all that cut material is hidden away somewhere and they're acting like it never happened. Because they want the illusion that they knew 100% what story they were telling and that they were completely happy with it.

@@THEremiXFACTOR Well there are interviews, Daisy Ridley for example, saying they had no idea who her parents would be and kept changing it. So it shows they had no plan and were spit balling. But that is an actor saying it and not the studio. What's worse imo is there are people out who believe Rise was a good movie lol.

Agreed. TROS is the definition of soul crushing. It’s a messy highly corporatized rush job Lucasfilm should’ve taken 4-5 years to make the movie after the reception of TLJ, but instead they went ahead full steam 2 years. They speedran the entire trilogy, instead of taking the 3-5 year gaps between films

@@gabebartlett9680 Ug. I was taking note of that the other day. Every 2 years for the new Star Wars. The first new one was adequate and they could've gotten better each time. 3 years apart. The original movies were 3 years apart obviously but the prequels were to. Why the F did they go with the 2 year rule this time. Bad call, and no time to sleep on a decision.

The Rise of Skywalker was so messy because JJ Abrams kept having to find ways to make a sound movie after Rian Johnson completely killed what he already started with his abject weirdness in Last Jedi. A lot of things you don't like about RoS, were things established in Last Jedi and Abrams having to try writing around that. Rian Johnson completely went off the deep end and created a Star Wars movie that doomed the next one.

The giant spider is a whole gag about Jon Peters who tried to randomly shoehorn a giant spider into that movie.

Indeed

Me too! That was an awesome surprise! I didn't realize he was fighting Jon Peters' giant spider until later though.

well yeah cause nobody saw the movie, it flopped hard

@@EGarrett01 Oh yeah, someone had to tell me about the spider later too lol

It literally happened in the movie

As the other response to your comment says -- it did happen, they just added the spider because thats anyone knows about "Nick Cage as Superman", (made famous by the Kevin Smith interview), its ridiculous. It was originally supposed to be Sean Penn according to Kevin Smith - equally ridiculous. The spider seems to be the part that Nick doesn't understand. This terrible sounding Tim Burton Superman movie was going to be all sorts of awful, with the producer insisting on Superman fighting a giant spider, not flying, and not being in his regular suit -- so i hate to break it to Nick Cage (as he seems nice), but if he hated that little snippet here, then he would have HATED the disaster that that Superman movie would have been. The producer moved on to Wild Wild West where you get the fight with the giant mechanical spider - and the movie blows. A majority of us think the spider being added here is hilarious as an inside joke, because of the Kevin Smith story about not being able to finish the script because he had to add so much crazy ass stuff (including said spider), it made the story legendary. We wouldn't have even know about this fever dream of a movie script had it not been for the whole Spider story. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wo2KB1dEDdk.html (to see Kevin talk about it)

A very good character to do as well.

@@MKL3165 Nicholas said he wants to play Spectre.

@@tonyantonellis9983 would be great character and great way to help introduce a big bad in the DCU.

@@MKL3165 indeed.

They could have copied his likeness from any number of his movies..

That would either be the best movie ever or the worst movie ever depending on the director

Wick Rider

@@Geraldo_Rivian now that would be an interesting crossover event lol

The best ride!

You didn't like him in Fast Times, got it👍

@@Rowebot15 🤣😂🍔

@@Rowebot15 Vampires Kiss was epic

Yes.

Exactly, AI is just a tool (or it should be), that means it's used to do more than was possible with out it, not replace actual work, skill, talent and vision. Cgi was and as noted here a tool improperly used much the same, rather than elevating what could be done in film with practical effect, or budget limitations, it became a corner cutting tool to "make it work" not the extention of medium expression it should be.

@@final_catalyst yeah I'm in the arts myself and I honestly see the benefit of AI. You can use it as like some kind of brainstorming aid to help formulate betters concepts. For example, you can have a conversation with any cheap/free AI chat bot as if you have a co-writer to bounce off from until you finally have a proper idea in your hands. Of course, you still also need to do the heavy lifting because AI tends to be weird when you aren't specific enough. However, yes there is a horrible dark side, but I don't need to explain it because that's what everyone's talking about.

you are the problem! YOU! It will take away all of their jobs,dumbo. They got algorhytms that can write up a combo of any script in existance in last 2 centuries,and simply generate it. Will you pay billions of people who will lose jobs? Or millions of actors,writers?

They probably knew what was doing to happen and hired him on for a minimum so they could go through the motionsand still legally do what they wanted. They avoided a lawsuit as they did py him for the role. Perhaps his contract even included a clause to allow for his likeness to be used in that particular way.

This! Facts!

Who said none of the filmmakers noticed

No

Never going to happen at this point, James Gunn is the guy working on a new Superman

This comment makes me go back to the very ending of the Superman Lives documentary when Tim Burton says “Why are you trying to depress me so much? Does anybody have saline pill? Visit me when I’m 90 and I’ll be here “Still gonna make it… Gonna make it…”” 😅

"Adaptation" is great. "Bringing Out the Dead" is great. "Mandy" is great. Those are my favourite films with him.

Well Cage is actually Superman in real life that’s why he knows all the details here , they’re just trying to keep him down . Jealously bastards .

@@UncleTermite 100%

Show? Lol

Con-air was a freakin excellent movie.

Ahh.. do I need to remind everyone that He had a mullet!

@@michaelharkness8724 Ikr. Superman had a mullet at one point but Id guess most fans don't want a fully movie of kryptonian mullet.

Tim Burton came up with the story for "Nightmare" and he was supposed to direct it but couldn't due to scheduling issues with the production of "Batman Returns"

A certain sized-13 Doc Marten's boot hole in the wall says otherwise

I can't name any specific interviews offhand, but it was one of the big points in the SAG strike. Among other things, the studios were trying to claim the automatic right to the images of actors in perpetuity for use in future CGI/AI "performances" as part of the standard acting contract (not just big stars, but across the board) and SAG was holding a hardline position against it and ended up winning in that point.

At the time, I certainly felt that way as well. Now, though, I find myself wishing it had been made because I think it would have been bonkers. Could have become one of those "so bad, it's good" kind of movies.