Cape Fear

The on/off saga of Tim Burton's Superman Lives continues. Just as soon as it seems the film has slipped completely off the boil than Nicholas Cage firmly puts it back on again. Speaking in this month's Detour magazine, Cage reveals why he's still excited about the project. 'Rarely does one have that kind of a stage to try to do something new,' he says. 'I realise that's a very scary position to be in, because you can fall flat on your face, but I was really up for it. I knew I would be taking an enormous chance playing a guy in a cape, but at the same time risks and chances were what I always wanted for myself.' 'And I was excited by the possibility that with Superman, who is so important to so many children around the world that I could maybe do something in that character to say, It's okay to be different.' It remains to be seen whether Tim Burton will direct Superman. Last month Cinescape declared that Burton had definitely left the project and that writer Bill Wisher - the man behind Terminator 2 - had been brought on board to put a script together.