Donner's Supeman II is go
Filed under: Action, Drama, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Newsstand
Apparently everyone who's anyone knows that Richard Donner "more
or less" saw the first two Superman movies as a single unit, and that
he was more than two-thirds of the way done with part two when he was
fired ("creative differences," don't you know). Warner Brothers brought in Richard Lester to complete/fix/destroy the movie, and the
resulting film, according to a very grumpy man at The Guardian, is "an
uneven, campy mess." Me, I love Superman II entirely because it is an
uneven, campy mess. It's by far my favorite of the series, but I
suppose even a hater like myself is curious as to what Donner would
have come up with, had he been given the chance to finished what he started. Now, miracle of
miracles, Warner's has reportedly given Donner the
permission he needed to create a "director's cut" from his old footage.
DVD, here it comes!So, first Paul Schrader's Dominion comes out, and now this - it's almost as if studio heads have grown a collective soul. Creepy.
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11-02-2005 @ 12:06PM
The Jeremy said...
Now if they'd only let Joel Schumacher re-create his director's cut of *Batman Forever*...the original version that has a good 20 minutes more material than the studio release.
And since I have seen it when it was being tested, it is totally superior to the finished version.
Although word to the wise, excise the existing theatrical score and stick Elfman's in. To me, that's the worst thing about both Schumacher Batman films...the theatrical score. Terrible!
Then again...what about *Superman IV*, or *Captain America*? Both films were done by Canon/21st Century Film, and they both were originally 3 hours in length and both cut down to about 1 1/2 hours. Sure, they suck, but it would be interesting to see the leftover material from each.
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