FINALLY... you shall all kneel before Zod!!!

[Super Monkey]

SUPERMAN II

According to the Superman Homepage, director Richard Donner (who was removed from the film after having already directed most scenes) has now been hired to work on a Special Edition DVD of 'Superman II.'"


WOOHOO!

[Great Rao]

That's absolutely fantastic!  A lot of people have been demanding this for a long time, it's great that WB was listening.

Any news on a possible release date?  I wonder if the plan is for it to be a Superman Returns marketing tie-in - where they both kind of re-inforce each other.  A SUPER 1-2 punch, so to speak.

[JulianPerez]

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!

[Uncle Mxy]

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.

C'mon -- SUPERMAN is his best movie!  I was a sucker for LADYHAWKE, too.  And he's done some seminal TV work.  The Twilight Zone episode where Shatner is hauled off a plane in a straightjacket at the end is just awesome.

[JulianPerez]

C'mon -- SUPERMAN is his best movie! I was a sucker for LADYHAWKE, too. And he's done some seminal TV work. The Twilight Zone episode where Shatner is hauled off a plane in a straightjacket at the end is just awesome.

LADYHAWKE looked wonderful, that's for sure.

...that is, until the 80s synth music came on! It Set an absolute nadir for totally inappropriate soundtracks, only to be exceeded a decade later by KULL THE CONQUEROR's heavy metal tunes. What, they couldn't get the rights to Europe's "The Final Countdown?"

Don't get me wrong, I can't get enough of that picture, but man...I burst out laughing every time I hear that Alan Parsons-style instrumental.

Though I'm sure LADYHAWKE's greatest distinction has to have been made recently, when it was voted "Greatest Movie Ever" by Napoleon Dynamite.