Current Events > They did some fucked up AI shit to Nic Cage

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https://deadline.com/2023/11/nicolas-cage-superman-cameo-the-flash-1235590271/

Nicolas Cage is opening up about his cameo in The Flash where he was featured donning the costume of Superman.

As you may remember, Cage tested as the Man of Steel for what wouldve been a Tim Burton-directed feature that was ultimately scrapped. With The Flash being about the multiverse, in another timeline, Cage does sport the red cape and blue suit but he said that what he filmed was not what appeared on-screen.

When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider. I did not do that. That was not what I did, he told Yahoo! Entertainment in an interview. I dont think it was [created by] AI. I know Tim is upset about AI, as I am. It was CGI, OK, so that they could de-age me, and Im fighting a spider. I didnt do any of that, so I dont know what happened there. But I get where Tims coming from. I know what he means. I would be very unhappy if people were taking my art and appropriating them. I get it. I mean, Im with him in that regard. AI is a nightmare to me. Its inhumane. You cant get more inhumane than artificial intelligence.

God I can't wait until AI trivializes sovl

doesnt that say it wasnt AI?

Wait, I didn't know he fought a giant spider in it.

They literally referenced the Jon Peters Kevin Smith story lol

I'm ready for our AI overloards

MICHALECOLE posted...

doesnt that say it wasnt AI?

It's Nic Cage saying he doesn't think it's AI because he doesn't fully understand AI. And thus, he calls it "CGI." He even says, in effect, "What I thought was happening didn't happen, so I don't know what was going on, there."

It was AI.

So he showed up in costume and just modeled while a fan blew his hair? Who care if they made him fight a giant spider lol

This is particularly funny because there's really not many things Nic Cage wouldn't do if asked simply because he loves acting so much. Like they could have just said "hey nic start punching a pretend spider in front of this green screen" and he would have gave them a feature length version of that scene without taking any breaks lmao

They did put a lot of time into building the suit and I think [Andy] is a terrific director, he is a great guy and a great director, and I loved his two It movies, he said. What I was supposed to do was literally just be standing in an alternate dimension, if you will, and witnessing the destruction of the universe. Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with that short amount of time that I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey. I had no dialogue [so had to] convey with my eyes the emotion. So thats what I did. I was on set for maybe three hours.

Lol so he really did just stand around in the suit while a fan blew his hair.

A_Good_Boy posted...

Kal-El was bearing witness [to] the end of a universe, and you can imagine with that short amount of time that I had, what that would mean in terms of what I can convey. I had no dialogue [so had to] convey with my eyes the emotion.

Does that same emotion carry over into fighting a giant spider?

Like, Supes is beating the shit out of some gigarachnid but with really sad eyes for some reason?

Nevermind, I read it wrong.