There is a perverse joy in watching a $200 million project implode. The Death of “Superman Lives”: What Happened? details the disastrous Tim Burton/Nicolas Cage Superman movie that never was. These docs turn disaster into catharsis. They validate the audience’s suspicion that the corporate executives ruining their favorite franchises are just as clueless as they feared.
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