Huzzah!
Dick Donner's best movie, though, has to have been the absolutely wonderful THE GOONIES, but by the sound of things, an ambitious SUPERMAN II might have rivaled this career monument.
There was one scene in the SUPERMAN DVD that immediately aroused my curiosity about the plot that Donner was going for, which was that Lois outsmarted Clark into revealing his secret identity.
She pulls a gun, shoots him, and watches Clark Kent collapse to the ground. Clark dusts himself off, and stands up.
SUPERMAN: "You know, if you had been wrong...Clark Kent would have been killed."
LOIS: "Oh? With blanks?" [/list]
This idea was so amazing, so true to Lois's cleverness, that it immediately made the means by which the revalation in SUPERMAN II was achieved pale. I mean, this secret disguse he's cultivated for years and years...undone because he's a klutz? First off, Superman doesn't trip. He's Superman. Second...how lame to be undone that way.
One wonders what Donner would have done in the rest of the film - the dissatisfying points in SUPERMAN II had been ironed out, and the amazing parts - the 15 minute battle, Zod turning Mt. Rushmore to match his face, that Cheers guy as a lonely Houston watchtower guy...had remained.
Guess we'll finally get a chance to find out!