The comic movie was meant to be a hip, unexpected take about the death and rebirth of DC Comics’ most beloved, kinda bland hero. With this new doc, Schnepp wants to make an omnibus out of a 20-year-old rumor mill. “Fiercest killers in the animal kingdom,” Smith and even Peters reiterate here. Director Kevin Smith somewhat immortalized the fiasco film in his uninhibited stand-up bit about producer Jon Peter’s insistence on adding spiders and polar bears to Superman Lives’ screenplay.

Over the years, pictures of Nic Cage in a Superman suit have popped up online and the Superman Lives Wikipedia page is bursting with notes on productions. The film features a cavalcade of talking heads involved with the production, fabulous production art, and almost regret-inducing home videos. The neat documentary The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened? provides ample archival material and funny interviews as director and Supes fanboy Jon Schnepp digs into one of the most popular stories of development hell in Hollywood history. But that’s the thing with comic books: There’s always a demand for more stories. That fact alone is interesting enough pub trivia.

Or was it Superman Reborn? Regardless, Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage’s angst-addled, alienated take on the Man of Steel came very close to being released in the summer of 1998. But the only way to stop him is by sacrificing his own life! As the planet mourns the man who symbolized the best humanity had to offer, four mysterious beings appear-all with the powers and abilities of the Man of Steel! When the Earth continues to be threatened by beings of immeasurable power, Metropolis' one true hero will rise and return hope to those who need it most.Expensive development, aesthetic over-compensation, a studio already licking too many financial wounds: That is what happened to Superman Lives. Legendary writer Dan Jurgens (Superman: Action Comics) brings to you the epic saga in its entirety that that bubbled to the forefront of popular culture in this oversize omnibus edition!A maniacal beast has risen from the Earth, a creature called Doomsday! Only one man can stop Doomsday's rampage-Superman. Sacrificing his life to against an unstoppable global threat, the people of Earth must now accept that the world they live in is a world without Superman. Read Or Download Death and Return of Superman Omnibus (2022 edition) By Dan Jurgens Full Pages.

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