Nicolas Cage's love of comic books has been well documented, and even though he's dipped his toe in the superhero movie genre (Ghost Rider, sequel Sprit of Vengeance, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse), he has yet to appear in either the MCU or DCU.
Some feel it's only a matter of time, but it doesn't sound like the Academy Award-winner is sitting by the phone!
Cage was on stage at the Miami Film Festival accepting Variety's Legend & Groundbreaker Award when he shared his thoughts on the state of superhero cinema today.
"I've gotta be nice about Marvel movies, because I named myself after a Stan Lee character named Luke Cage," he said. "What am I going to do, put Marvel movies down? Stan Lee is my surrealistic father. He named me."
Cage went on to point out that he understood the "frustration" with superhero movies. “I get it. But I think there’s plenty of room for everybody. I’m seeing movies like Tár. I’m seeing all kinds of artistic and independently driven movies. I think there’s plenty of room for everybody.”
So, he'd be open to playing a role in a Marvel Studios project, then? "I don't need to be in the MCU, I'm Nic Cage."
No argument here!
Cage did admit that he regretted what happened with Tim Burton's long-defunct Superman Lives, however, revealing that the movie simply never came together because Warner Bros. got "cold feet."
"It was more of a 1980s Superman with like, the samurai black long hair," he explained. "I thought it was gonna be a really different, sort of emo Superman, but we never got there."
A rumor did the rounds that Cage might be set to return as Johnny Blaze for Avengers: Secret Wars, but it's all speculation at this point.
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