Once upon a time rather famously, Nicolas Cage was going to play Superman in “Superman Lives,” a new incarnation from Tim Burton in the 1990s that would have pitted the Man of Steel against the alien villain Brainiac. Burton had previously directed “Batman” and “Batman Returns,” essentially reviving the superhero genre for a modern audience, but as Cage tells Rolling Stone Magazine in a recent interview discussing his latest films, “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent,” the studio seemed to have soured on the director and the project eventually dissolved.

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Tim Burton (“Batman”), alongside Steven Spielberg, were filmmakers that embraced early digital effects in the 1990s to create creatures, Spielberg with man-eating dinosaurs in “Jurassic Park” and Burton with creepy little aliens in his 1996 satire “Mars Attacks!.” Well, it looks like Burton also had a dino itch he wanted to scratch, too but in a more gory fashion.

“Mars Attacks!” screenwriter Jonathan Gems spoke with Inverse, revealing how an oddball birthday gift led to Burton’s desire to make a disaster film.

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