Michael John Petty is a Senior Features Writer for Collider who writes mostly about Westerns but also loves superheroes and supernatural thrillers.
The Big Picture There has never been a Superman quite like Christopher Reeve. The man who made us believe a man could fly has lived on as a legend since he first showed up on the screen in 1978, and ever since we've been trying to recapture that magic. In 2025, that's exactly what James Gunn hopes to do with his upcoming reboot, simply titled Superman, which will star David Corenswet in the leading role.
Release Date November 15, 2006 Director Richard Donner , Richard Lester Cast Gene Hackman , Christopher Reeve , Marlon Brando , Ned Beatty , Jackie Cooper , Sarah Douglas , Margot Kidder Runtime 115 minutes Main Genre Superhero Writers Mario Puzo , David Newman , Leslie Newman , Tom Mankiewicz Richard Donner Allegedly Went Over Budget for 'Superman II' When producer Illya Salkind and his father Alexander Salkind began to develop Superman as a major motion picture, they hired The...
Richard Donner Didn't Want to Revisit 'Superman' Close Superman: The Movie opens up on Krypton, with Superman's father Jor-El banishing General Zod and his lackeys to the Phantom Zone. While it does well to establish the alien nature of the crystalline world , we had to wait until the sequel for this moment to pay off. And even then, what we see from Richard Lester's Superman II is different from what Richard Donner envisioned.
Fans Helped Make a Richard Donner Cut Possible In the late '90s, Superman fan sites began to appear all over the internet. The Superman Homepage was started in 1994 and continues to this day as a massive resource for fans of the Man of Steel, as have others like it. According to The Guardian, it's websites like these that helped launch the creation of what would become Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, including a British site that began a letter-writing campaign to push Warner Bros.
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