Actor Nicholas Cage dislikes talking about comics movies
Uproxx says the veteran actor Nicholas Cage isn't fond of comics movies or the overall subject, even though he'd appeared in 2 or 3 adaptations himself:
If Cage wants to move on from comics-based movies, however, that's okay, because they have been run into the ground of late, and Hollywood put way too much effort into science-fiction than into more down-to-earth dramas. Even live action movies based on cartoons and video games have made the industry a joke. It'd be a whole lot better if we could see more movies not based on those anymore, because it's gotten very absurd, and made Hollywood look more silly than need be.
Nicolas Cage did not seem to enjoy a question about his comic book collection. While promoting his new movie Arcadian at SXSW, Cage participated in a Q&A where he got a little testy when asked if he’d ever return to the realm of comic book films after previously starring in Ghost Rider and Kick-Ass.Funny thing about these arguments, however, is that the Hollywooders who make them never seem to raise a meaty discussion about any of the challenging issues past storytelling was able to tell, like the time Stan Lee tackled the subject of drug addiction in Spider-Man back in 1971, or even topics like racism and sexism. So what's the use of saying you've "grown up" if and when comicdom's doing the same over past decades is not acknowledged?
“Would I return to the comic book genre? I guess never say never, right?” Cage said before venting his frustration with the topic. “But, you know, much has been made about that. My comic book collection just goes viral so quickly and exponentially and I feel like it’s in some ways eclipsed by what I’m really reading. You know, like The Overcoat or Herman Hesse. It’s like I’m still stuck in 12 years old with the NyQuil and the lemon cookies reading The Incredible Hulk #72. I mean, c’mon, I’ve grown up.”
More recently, the actor had a very brief cameo in The Flash where his version of Superman was finally brought to life, but he has openly spoken out about the overly-CGI’d final product.He may be dismayed with the end result, but why did he even bother to associate with that now notorious insult in the first place, despite all the trouble its star, Ezra Miller, caused? Not only was the story based foremost on one of Geoff Johns' worst PC retcons, it also built on what's become a sad staple of modern entertainment - darkness.
“When I went to the picture, it was me fighting a giant spider. I did not do that. That was not what I did,” Cage told Yahoo! back in November. “I literally went to shoot a scene for maybe an hour in the suit, looking at the destruction of a universe and trying to convey the feelings of loss and sadness and terror in my eyes. That’s all I did.”
If Cage wants to move on from comics-based movies, however, that's okay, because they have been run into the ground of late, and Hollywood put way too much effort into science-fiction than into more down-to-earth dramas. Even live action movies based on cartoons and video games have made the industry a joke. It'd be a whole lot better if we could see more movies not based on those anymore, because it's gotten very absurd, and made Hollywood look more silly than need be.
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