Steve Johnson FX Designs for Superman, Iron Man and Hulk

I'm sure we have posted THE HULK pics b4 here at cbm.com lol, could be wrong, IRON MAN very cool!

New DOOMIE and SUPES pics too!

DOOMSDAY = FTW!!!

A prosthetic Hulk would probably be the way to go for the tv series. If that was the design I'd be cool with it.

I love the Iron Man and Hulk pics.

The first four Superman pics remind me of the aliens from "The Abyss". The first Doomsday pic looks like Clayface, while the second one reminds me of the creature from the 1988 horror film "Leviathan."

THANK GAWD THEY DIDNT DO A BURTON SUPERMAN, THE HULK SUIT IS SWEET THOUGH BUT THAT LIGHT BRIGHT SUPERMAN SUIT IS JUST A MESS...

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@ bullsize:
hahaha that one pic of doomsday really does look like Abomination!

But i thought Abomination from the incredible hulk could make a pretty cool Doomsday... it would have to be tweeked a little, but still, a nice base.

And the first doomsday pic would be a cool Chemo... I think the rest look like shit

SUPERMAN= almost makes me angry how silly these were. personally, i think the suit needs to stay along the lines of the original as much as possible, but if an update was cool, i'd buy. but burton's make him look like a damn christmas tree. STUPID

DOOMSDAY= pretty terrible. first thing i think of is the monster from cloverfield. i know it doesnt look a lot like it, but thats what comes to mind for me. def doesnt look like doomsday.

IRON MAN+HULK= pretty flippin cool.

Glad that didn't happen. Burton is great with Dark stories. He changes to many iconic thigs. Fore a Kat like Superman. It worked with Batman, but if he would get over him self he would be even greater then he is.

AngryRob@ I was thinking the same thing. It even looks like Brainiac.

Personally my favorite is the Iron Man costume. It's got the modern tech with the old school design from one of the first suits in the comic.

It always amazes me when studio's and directors make huge changes to stuff that has already been a proven winner in other mediums. Like when the Director of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince actually changed stuff in the story, this is one of the biggest selling series of books ever and printed in almost every language and this guy said," you know I think I can do it better". Same with the Superman suit, the black Spiderman suit, origin stories, I mean c'mon!!! Superman is a universal logo everyone knows, why the hell do you mess with something that has lasted longer than most of these people have been alive?

LOOOL i have to say the smallville doomsday looked better then 1st doomsday design they have there, the iron man armour looks retro i like it but i am glad they went with the design they have now, and hulks looks pretty good thats probably what they'll use in the tv show after the avengers

That Iron Man suit sucks, the Superman suit is cool, but not for Superman himself, the Hulk model looks cool, and the Doomsday concept looks too much like how the Abomination looks in the Incredible Hulk movie.

FYI ON "SUPERMAN LIVES"..........

Superman Lives began development in 1994 as soon as Warner Bros. reacquired the rights to Superman from the Salkinds. It was to be directed by Tim Burton, starring Nic Cage and written by Kevin Smith. This film never got going, or in Burton's words was "made in his head" but he made the error common in films that never get made in that he "forgot to film it".

The story was to be an adaptation of the immensely popular comic book Death Of Superman and Warner Brother's after chucking out various scripts went with Clerks writer/director Kevin Smith.


Smith seemed the perfect choice to write Superman Lives but had a formidable advisory in producer and former hairdresser Jon Peters who's obsessions with gay robot's, giant spiders, space dogs and Polar Bears would make Smith's work a little difficult.

Peters had produced the first two highly successful Batman films and both he and the WB discovered that they made more in merchandising than from the actual movies themselves. Jonny boy's problem is that he wants Superman to be more like a trip to Toys'R'Us than a kick ass movie. So he added pointless contraptions, suits and doo-hickies to the film purely to make toys of them.

When Burton arrived one of his first acts was to trash Kevin Smith's script. He wanted to bring in all his own writers and thus began the Smith vs. Burton catfight. Smith threatened legal action in 2001 for Burton's 'Ape Lincoln' ending in Planet Of The Apes which he had done in a Jay & Silent Bob comic years before. Burton claimed not to read comics and never to have read anything by Kevin Smith. Now whenever Smith signs bootleg Superman Lives scripts he writes F*** Tim Burton. if anyone has one of these bad boys I'd appreciate it if they can scan it in and send it this way!


Nic Cage was cast as Supes - much to the dismay of pretty much everyone. Cage is a comic book fan and took the Superman gig with much enthusiasm and also came up with this quote which I thought I'd include as it's pure cheese "I hope I can still do this because I think it will be a very enchanted movie." Wanting to reach out to the kids Cage went on "It's OK to be different because Superman is different. If one child sees that and says 'maybe I'm Superman' then I've done my job." I actually quite like Nic Cage and enjoy his films it's just I think he was the wrong choice for this role - casting such a big name as Superman is generally a bad idea.

The producers of the original Superman movie wanted Robert Redford to be The Man Of Steel but director Richard Donner wisely persuaded them to go with the then unknown Christopher Reeve. This decision was based on the fact that the audience would be seeing a star in tights and wouldn't believe the character. This is why Cage was a much loathed choice for the role, people just weren't ready to buy Cage as Superman.


Burton and Cage eventually left the project. With both saying it took "too long" and the were right. The film was to be based around the Death and Return of Superman comic book story arc. After Burton left various directors were linked including Oliver Stone and Robert Rodriguez but nobody committed. Scriptwriters came and went each writing screenplays that didn't do The Man of Steel justice. The WB eventually made a decision to put Superman on ice and go with the rootin' tootin' Will Smith classic Wild, Wild West as their big summer blockbuster. Things didn't go quite as planned and the Jon Peters produced western bombed. It seems giant spiders DON'T equal success at the box office after all!

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Great post Gunsmith. I am so glad this movie was never made. Tim Burton's Batman movies sucked bad enough to me. The first was okay, but the actors and bat toys were the best parts of it. The writing was crap for that whole first franchise. Seeing Batman Begins and the Dark Knight serve to show just what a joke the first franchise was. I am not interested in any Burton directed CBMs. Major problems I see for Superman Lives are 1. Burton's direction. 2. Nick Cage as Superman. 3. Nick cage in that latex nightmare of a costume. 4. Any of those costumes or concepts for SM or Doomsday. 5. Tim Burton.
On another note, the Hulk looks awesome!

Love the Pics and all the Info I didn't already know about the Superman project..

I think sometime in the future, there should be some hilarious comedy or documentary about why "Superman Lives" wasn't made and all the drama behind it.lol

Good Find!

How is that Hulk supposed to work as a prosthetic? One man inside?Two men? Dwarves? I really can't work out who would fit where....?