Nicolas Cage was wanted as Superman for CW's "Crisis on Infinite Earths" Arrowverse crossover

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In October, Arrowverse boss Marc Guggenheim responded to a Twitter user who urged him to cast Cage as Superman. "What makes you think we didn't reach out...," Guggenheim responded. In interview with Indiewire, Guggenheim admits he did reach out to Cage. "You know, to be honest with you, because I never want to lie on these things, that was … yeah, I actually did … we did reach out to Nic Cage," he said, adding: "I’ll tell you one thing, we reached out to a lot of people, and there were people who didn’t want to do it. There were people who would only do it for amounts of money that we could not ever afford. And there were other people who really wanted to do it, but couldn’t for scheduling. That was the case with a lot of, I have to say, the movie stars that we reached out to. The thing about movie stars is, they’re all shooting movies. And unless those movies are shooting in Vancouver, we’re kind of out of luck. But I have to say that the sheer number of actors that we did end up getting exceeded my expectation." Guggenheim didn't say how Cage responded to his offer.