“I basically wasted a year. A year is a long time to be working with somebody that you don't really want to be working with.”
―Tim Burton, regarding Jon Peters Superman Lives is the name of an abandoned Superman film project under the direction of Tim Burton. The film was to star Nicolas Cage as Superman/Clark Kent, and both Christopher Walken and Jim Carrey as Brainiac. The project had a long and troubled production history. It was written by Kevin Smith, Wesley Strick, and Dan Gilroy, all scripts were based on the Death of Superman storyline.