Starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Tim Burton, 'Superman Lives' by no means acquired made. However followers can get a glimpse of what might have been in 'The Flash.'

Nicolas Cage’s Superman fights an enormous spider — which was within the unique plan for “Superman Lives.”

Sure, Nicolas Cage actually does seem in “The Flash” as Superman battling an enormous spider along with his warmth imaginative and prescient.

Within the scene, Superman is swarmed by a horde of mini spiders, earlier than incinerating them along with his powers and killing the enormous arachnid. It is solely then that he notices the multiverse opening up in a portal within the sky… 

The actor was really meant to star in his personal Superman film again within the Nineteen Nineties — titled “Superman Lives” — which was going to be helmed by “Batman” director, Tim Burton.

As per Jon Schnepp’s 2015 documentary “The Loss of life of ‘Superman Lives’: What Occurred?” the movie was going to be primarily based on “The Loss of life of Superman” storyline from the comedian books.

The studio went by quite a few scripts by the likes of Wesley Strick, Dan Gilroy, and Kevin Smith, however one of many essential driving forces behind the movie was producer Jon Peters.

Peters was adamant that the large finale needs to be one thing apart from Superman combating yet one more costumed supervillain. As an alternative, he imagined one thing extra horrific: a monstrous large spider. 

Talking to Schnepp about his plan for the movie, Peters known as it the “Thanagarian Snare Beast,” earlier than including: “I stole it from Jules Verne’s ‘20,000 Leagues Below The Sea.’ This large squid that tries to swallow up this submarine. So Superman would battle each tentacle— getting nearer and nearer to this beak — till he killed it. It could’ve made an incredible sequence! Wonderful!”

Storyboard artist Tim Burgard drew sketches for the spider, which had been featured within the documentary, and so they confirmed how massive the beast was meant to be. It seems like one thing proper out of a “Godzilla” film. 

Burgard defined that the spider would spit out mini creatures for Superman to battle, saying: “All these little face-hugger mini spiders are coming down and protecting Superman. He is not going up towards a supervillain, he is going towards the Alien, or the Predator, or one thing that can try to kill him and possibly eat him or lay eggs in his eyeballs! That to me is tremendous cool as a result of it takes it to a special degree that we have not seen earlier than.”

It is clear that Andy Muschietti and author Christina Hodson needed to lastly convey that complete sequence to life in “The Flash,” mini spiders and all.