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"Tim Burton&amp;#039;s failed superhero movie Superman Lives has inspired a documentary. Jon Schnepp, director and producer of Adult Swim show Metalocalypse, is appealing for funding on Kickstarter to finance the venture.      Based on a screenplay by Kevin Smith, Superman Lives was to star Nicolas Cage as a flightless incarnation of the Man of Steel in a radically different take on the character. &amp;quot;This film, out of all the various attempts to make a Superman movie between 1987 and 2006, would have stood the test of time and become a bona fide Cult Classic nowadays,&amp;quot; said Schnepp. &amp;quot;I am not alone with my intense interest in knowing everything I can about this project, and so now I&amp;#039;m embarking on making a documentary that will cover everything ever made for this film, from interviewing as many people as I can who were involved, to including actually recreating scenes from the script.&amp;quot; Superman Lives would reportedly have drawn inspiration from the &amp;#039;Death of Superman&amp;#039; plotline, with Lex Luthor, Brainiac and Doomsday serving as its villains. The project was intended for release in 1998. Photo gallery - stills from the upcoming Man of Steel movie:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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