The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1980
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The Making of 'Superman II': Directed by Iain Johnstone. With Ernie Anderson, Terence Stamp, Gene Hackman, Jack O'Halloran. Documentary about the making of the sequel to Superman.
- (106)
- Documentary
- Iain Johnstone
- 1982
- Much of Superman II Was Shot Alongside Superman: The Movie.
- Richard Lester Was Brought in Very Early to Replace Richard Donner.
- Richard Donner Was Fired from Superman II Via telegram.
- The Superman Cast Was Furious When Richard Donner Was fired.
- Richard Lester Completely Restructured Superman II.
- Superman's Mother Had A Larger Role Out of necessity.
- Superman II's Flying Harnesses Injured More Than One Actor.
- Jack O'Halloran and Christopher Reeve Almost Got Into A Fight.
- Margot Kidder's Anguish at The End Was Real.
- Only One Actor Promoted Superman II Worldwide.
Making the first major motion picture to star Superman was ambitious in itself in the late 1970s, but producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind were thinking bigger even before Superman: The Movie flew into theaters in 1978. The plan throughout the early production process was always to make two films, and to shoot them simultaneously. That meant Superm...
As production on Superman and Superman IIwore on, director Richard Donner clashed frequently with the Salkinds and their on-set producer, Pierre Spengler, over various aspects of the production, including his supposedly outlandish expenditures on the movie. For his part, Donner always claimed that he had no idea how much money he was spending, beca...
Superman was released over the holiday season of 1978 and quickly became both a commercial and critical success. It was a massive hit for the Salkinds and Donner that also ultimately became one of a select group of films (it arrived a little more than a year after Star Wars) that helped usher in the blockbuster era of American cinema. Despite a few...
The cast of Superman: The Movie left the massive shoot for the film with the understanding that they'd be coming back at a later date to finish Superman IIunder the leadership of Donner, whose passion for the material many of them had come to admire. Instead, they returned to find their director fired, and they weren't happy. Stars Christopher Reev...
Superman: The Movie famously borrowed its finale set piece—in which Superman flies rapidly around the globe to reverse time—from the original ending concept for Superman II, which would have used that particular time-warping power to allow Clark Kent to rewind the clock to a point where Lois Lane had no memory of his Superman secret. Donner and his...
The casting of Marlon Brando as Jor-El had been a major coup for Superman: The Movie. Though Brando had been expensive, he lent major star power to the production. But after the first film was a hit, the Salkinds saw an opportunity to carry on without him—something Brando didn't help by suing them for more money days after Superman was released. Ra...
Because Superman IIintroduced three new Kryptonians to Earth, the crew also had to add three new flying rigs for actors Terence Stamp, Jack O'Halloran, and Sarah Douglas. Though Christopher Reeve ultimately got used to his Superman flying rig, the other actors weren't so lucky. Douglas would later claim that she suffered a shoulder injury due to al...
Though most of the tension surrounding Superman IIwas directed at the Salkins and Lester, the cast had their own internal issues. At one point co-star Jack O'Halloran—a former boxer who convincingly played the Kryptonian enforcer Non and had already threatened Spengler over a missing paycheck—stepped up to have a physical confrontation with Reeve o...
The ending of Superman IIis an emotional farewell for Clark Kent and Lois Lane, who've just spent the whole film trying to form a romantic relationship only to find that the world really does need Superman after all, and Superman has to stay a secret. This understanding culminates in a scene in which Lois breaks down, describing her anguish over no...
Superman IIwas eventually completed amid a variety of tensions between the people who made it. There was tension between the original director and the producers, tensions between the new director and the cast, tension between various co-stars, and more. It was a lot to deal with, which made planning a promotional tour for the film a little difficul...
Superman II is a 1980 superhero film directed by Richard Lester and written by Mario Puzo and David and Leslie Newman from a story by Puzo based on the DC Comics character Superman. It is the second installment in the Superman film series and a sequel to Superman (1978).
- $190.4 million
- Ken Thorne
- $54 million
- Pierre Spengler
The Superman movies made a basic decision to give Superman and his alter ego, Clark Kent, more human feelings than the character originally possessed. So "Superman II" has a lot of fun developing his odd dual relationship with Lois Lane.
Jun 19, 1981 · Action Adventure Sci-Fi. Superman agrees to sacrifice his powers to start a relationship with Lois Lane, unaware that three Kryptonian criminals he inadvertently released are conquering Earth. Director. Richard Lester. Writers. Jerry Siegel. Joe Shuster. Mario Puzo. Stars. Gene Hackman. Christopher Reeve. Margot Kidder.
- (112K)
- Richard Lester, Richard Donner
- PG
- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
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This documentary treats movie fans to a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Superman II, in which a gang of criminals from Superman's home planet arrive on Earth to begin terrorizing the Man of Steel's adopted home.
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