Nicolas Cage explains to ET his vision for 'Superman Lives,' 25 years before he donned the suit for a loving cameo in 'The Flash.' In rare interviews, the self-professed comic book nerd shares details about the Tim Burton-directed movie that he hoped would 'reexamine the myth' of Kal El and Clark Kent for the 'new millennium.' An infamous '90s Hollywood story, and subject of the documentary 'The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?' in 2015, multiple factors behind the scenes led Warner Bros. to cancel the production just weeks away from its filming start date in 1998. Cage admitted to ET the next year that he had 'completely walked away' from the project, which already had concept art and costume tests devoted to him taking on the Man of Steel. In 2023, the Oscar winner, fresh off his Marvel voice role as Spider-Man Noir, returns to DC Comics for ‘The Flash,’ after Barry Allen discovers an alternate timeline where Cage is the one and only Superman.