Director Richard Donner. Top credits Director Richard Donner. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Superman: The Movie. Clip We Are Superman. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Christopher Reeve Superman as Superman …. Ned Beatty Otis as Otis. Trevor Howard 1st Elder as 1st Elder.
Jack O'Halloran Non as Non. Susannah York Lara as Lara. Sarah Douglas Ursa as Ursa. Harry Andrews 2nd Elder as 2nd Elder. Richard Donner. More like this. In addition to this, their drafts were still deemed too long. It was decided early in the process to shoot two films simultaneously. During the production of The Three Musketeers , the Salkinds had realized that there was enough footage for two films and split the film in two, releasing The Four Musketeers a year later. The joint production of Superman and Superman II would mark the first time this process was used intentionally.
All actors' contracts have what is now known as the "Salkind clause", which stipulates how many films are being made. All performers on Superman were contractually obligated to Superman II as well. However, in this case, most of the simultaneously-shot footage was reportedly scrapped when Richard Lester was brought in to finish Superman II. However, due to director Hamilton's status as a tax exile, he could not be involved in the filming. Although the filming dates for both Brando and Hackman had already been set, Donner was unhappy with the existing screenplay, feeling that it was too campy.
One of his first acts as director was to hire Tom Mankiewicz to substantially rewrite the script. In the opening titles Mankiewicz is listed as a 'Creative Consultant' because the WGA did not want more than four people to receive screenplay credit final screenplay credit is given to Puzo, the Newmans and Benton, with story credit for Puzo; the end credits also list "additional script material by Norman Enfield".
With the delay in production, Nolte also left the project. A talent search was made for an actress to play Lois Lane, with most of the leading young names of the time being considered. An unknown stage actor named Christopher Reeve was hired to provide feedlines during auditions, and it was Donner's wife who first pointed out that he was the ideal actor for the role of Superman.
The director and producers had originally thought a bodybuilder or athlete would be the first choice. Sylvester Stallone, coming off the success of his Rocky Balboa character, was a contender for the role, only to be turned down as believable for Superman but unrealistic to play Clark Kent. In the end, Donner kept coming back to Reeve, who had only one other cinematic role a supporting role in the disaster film Gray Lady Down and a television appearance in the soap opera Love of Life to his credit.
Reeve was then hired to play the superhero. One problem cropped up immediately: Reeve's lack of musculature. Reeve steadfastly refused to wear a padded suit and undertook a strenuous exercise regimen under British bodybuilder David Prowse, who would soon become famous for playing the physical form of Darth Vader in Star Wars.
By the time filming began in March, , Reeve had bulked up his 6'4" frame considerably and looked the part of Superman. As a tax break, shooting would, as noted, be headquartered at Pinewood Studios, with a second unit housed at nearby Shepperton Studios in Middlesex, England.
With Mankiewicz working on the script Donner realized that there was virtually nothing from Hamilton's tenure as director that he could use, and he set about putting together a new production team. Before long, the film had the good fortune of securing John Barry as a production designer. It was he who designed the crystalline world of Krypton. Model effects were designed, directed and supervised by Thunderbirds stalwart Derek Meddings.
As production dragged on through the studio became concerned — by that time, Star Wars had proven to be a big hit and Warners were not convinced the Salkinds' film would be as big of a draw. This teaser trailer was released in the second half of on the back of Star Wars and garnered an enthusiastic audience reaction that did much to keep the production going.
It is available as a bonus feature on the DVD. The reaction was largely enthusiastic, with Christopher Reeve singled out for particular praise for his sincere performance as both Superman and the bumbling Clark Kent.
The visual effects were also praised for their believability in contrast to those of previous low-budget productions of a similar genre. Meanwhile, John Williams added to his string of kudos for his score, which critics noted helped give an essential mythic grandeur to the story and character. As with "Superman" scores past, the main theme centers on a musical triad that suggests the three syllables of the character's name. While the critics were divided over their preference for the reverent origin sequence in the first part, or the more lively later sequence of Superman beginning his career, it has been considered one of the best superhero movies ever made.
Altogether it grossed U. The movie's legacy includes numerous television series, notably Superboy produced, like the movie, by Alexander Salkind , Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and the current prequel series, Smallville, which have all been influenced by the movie to some extent. A particular example of this influence is John Williams' main title composition, which is often played and parodied in movies and other popular media referring to superheroes or superstar athletes.
Due to its high regard, the film's continuity is maintained in the film Superman Returns, whose production design is heavily influenced by its forerunner. This is especially evident with the opening credits, Fortress of Solitude, musical references and even the use of Marlon Brando as Jor-El. However, Jor-El's more pressing concern lies in the orbital shift of Krypton; this shift is putting the planet into the fatal gravitational pull of its central star, a fact blithely ignored by the Council of Elders.
The leader of the Council forbids Jor-El from warning the larger populace or he will be imprisoned in the Phantom Zone himself. Jor-El promises to be silent and that he and his wife will not attempt to leave the planet. Jor-El chooses instead to construct a crystalline starship for his infant son Kal-El. Jor-El's wife Lara , however, is concerned, for the starship is programmed to take the child through a trans-galactic warp to a planet populated by primitive humans whose technological development is millennia behind Krypton, a planet that orbits a yellow sun , a planet called Earth.
Jor-El, however, understands that the planet's yellow sun will give Kal-El superhuman powers that will give him the advantage he needs to survive. Jor-El and Lara bid their child goodbye before Joe-El installs a Green Crystal into the ship, a crystal containing the very essence of himself and Lara as well as the knowledge of the entire universe.
He then completes the assembly of the starship - just as the planet is pulled into a fatal plunge toward its red sun. The starship is launched and escapes the system scant minutes before the planet is torn open, collides with its star, and both bodies are obliterated in a holocaust of fire and debris.
The tiny starship passes the Phantom Zone before accelerating on its journey to the planet Earth, with the voice of Jor-El providing the infant, who is aging as the ship proceeds, with knowledge. The ship finally reaches Earth and plunges like a meteor into a vast wheat field near Smallville , Kansas - within sight of local farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent. Upon seeing the meteor the Kents discover the now-three-year-old Kal-El, draped in a red robe; Martha, believing the child is a gift from God, decides to adopt him, and the child demonstrates that he is different when, as Jonathan is changing a tire on his truck and the jack slips, he innocently lifts the vehicle with his bare hands, saving his foster father's life.
Some fifteen years pass and the child, named Clark, is a student at Smallville High School who is shy and frequently bullied by star jock Brad. Clark knows of the vast power he possesses but is forbidden by his father from showing it - although, alone on a football field, he kicks a ball into orbit, then runs home by outrunning a speeding passenger train, and is seen by a young girl who tries to tell her parents; her mother, however, scolds young " Lois Lane " about telling tall tales.
Clark returns home as Brad and other students drive by, surprised that he arrived home so quickly. Jonathan, however, reassures Clark that he is on Earth for a reason and that he should not let others bother him. Clark thus feels better, but as he starts to play with the family dog, Jonathan suddenly stops, quivering; He then falls to the ground, victim of a heart attack.
After Jonathan's burial the grieving Clark blames himself, for with all his powers he couldn't even save his own father. Some time later Clark is awakened early one morning by a mysterious noise, emanating from the barn. Clark enters the barn and finds the remains of the meteor, and with it the now-activated spire of Jor-El.
A few days later Clark tells his mother that he must leave, and head north. Martha, having known this day would come, urges her son to always remember, and the tearful Clark vows to do just that as they embrace for one final time.
Days later Clark reaches the North Pole, where he takes the green crystal and throws it miles into the distance, where it melts into the ice and begins construction of a gigantic crystalline structure, a Fortress of Solitude. Inside Clark finds a matrix table of crystals; placing one into an aperture, he activates a dimensional communicator that reveals the spirit of Jor-El, his true father.
Jor-El provides the youth with his true identity of Kal-El and takes his son on a journey through time and space to complete his maturation, educating him on the universe and on his purpose in life.
Superman: Dawn of Justice Ultimate Edition improves the theatrical work by adding the extra 30 minutes this movie needs to balance the weight of its ambition. A director swap near the end of filming, due to tragedy, saw Zack Snyder exit the project and Joss Whedon Avengers , Avengers: Age of Ultron step up to finish it. Post-release investigations into on-set behavior by Whedon along with allegations of misconduct from multiple Justice League cast members—plus the release of Zack Snyder's Justice League —make this movie age even worse.
Justice League was so different from previous footage used for marketing material that some fans began begging to see Snyder's original vision for the film, before he left at the beginning of post-production.
And after a few years of refusal by Warner Bros. In , viewers got to witness the resurrection of Superman in a whole new light.
The Kryptonian who sacrificed himself at the end of BvS is at peace as the protector of Earth as he confronts the New Gods for the first time. He still swoops in to save the day, not just with the might of his alien abilities, but by being the hero who inspired the inhabitants of Earth to join him in the fight to protect the planet.
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