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Is Reeve the only live action Superman (other than Kirk Alyn) whose costume remained consistant thru his entire run? Not counting his evil Superman suit, I don't believe his look was altereed much like say, Dean Cain's or Henry Cavill. Even George Reeves had various differences in his supersuits.
Ah man, that sounds like a fun sequence. I actually have the music tracks that were supposed to be incorporated into the club music and they’re pretty great 80s club beats. This is supposedly the order they were supposed to play out in the club, albeit truncated throughout.
I assume this is what would have played when Clark notices Nuclear Man in the night club causing a stir.
And this was the only track to make it in the final edit during the gym scene.
Would be funny if yet another Bond candidate became Superman instead.
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Jacob Elordi and Andrew Richardson have also been mentioned to play Superman. I know nothing about either of them. Elordi at 6'4 certainly has the height and build to play Supes.
Hoult must be around that height also, Superman needs to be tall IMO.
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Just arrived in the post, it was very well packaged, the Steelbook's really are nice...
Enjoy, mate! Wonderful boxset!
Just had a quick peak at Superman III on 4K it's impressive I will watch the whole movie later. Cheers it will sit nicely next to my other DC boxsets... I have a lot. lol
Granted, it’s only mastered at 2K and its native resolution was at 1080p, so it’s well below 4K standards. Yet so many other films got upscaled. Maybe it’s the combined Singer and Spacey association? I do know that there was major disappointment with the blu-ray release because it appeared far more subdued and had poor compression artifacts. Most notable was during a moment under the sea where you can see banding within the water. Maybe they need to work even harder on that film to make that more presentable in 4K.
Then they slash the budget and change the script and story. Unlike EON, Canon didn't put the money up on the screen. I wonder how he felt about doing the press knowing it was a haphazard mess.
For example, the screenwriter on the commentary talked about how on his script he set up a far more elaborate subway chase that involved Superman trying to catch up with the train that Lois was in, but would have to dodge several oncoming trains in the process and such. But the film as it was made basically truncated it to Supes just speeding ahead of the train and stopping it. The action stops before it even begins.
Same thing with the Great Wall in china. In the script Supes rebuilds it with his super speed, but in post they just did some editing trick to make it look like he repaired it with some kind of blue laser vision.
I would have liked to see Superman Returns included after all it is a 100 Years celebration set and the film is supposed to be in the Donner continuity, in fact it follows Superman II: The Donner Cut narratively.
Superman Returns is in the Bluray set I have below. Many have come to the same conclusion as yourself with regards to Superman Returns absence from the 4K set.
I still want to see an extended cut of Superman Returns with the deleted scenes put in, the deleted opening scene is the best scene that was filmed.
Supposedly there’s a three hour cut that Singer was really trying to push, but the studio insisted they cut out 30 mins. IIRC, the opening text was also a studio add. Singer hated that text wall.
My controversial opinion is:
SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN is my favorite Superman movie. Then S1.
Superman and the Mole Men is quite funny. And George Reeves made for a very good Clark Kent IMO.
Very impressed with the 4K transfer, Lester is talented in his own right as a director, I am curios to see how Lester's first 2 Musketeers films look in 4K they have both recently been released.
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My Christopher Reeve continuity film rankings are as follows...
Superman The Movie (The 3 Hour Extended Cut is my favorite version).
Superman II: The Donner Cut
Superman II
Superman III
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Superman Returns (I have way too many issues with this film though the plane sequence is great).
And that's the main reason why I dislike S3. Imagine a Bond film that gives half its scenes to Rebel Wilson and her jokes. Pryor makes the film almost unwatchable for me.
True Pryor did take a lot of screen time from Superman as he pretty much shares top billing. I enjoy Superman III for what it is (I watched it at the cinema as a kid so have that good memory), I would not change anything to try to improve it, I would have just scrapped everything and made a different movie.
I concur. The problem is that the Salkinds were calling the shots, and they weren't interested in making good movies. Otherwise, they wouldn't have severed all ties with Donner after the first film.
Ha! I did not expect that sentence to take that turn at the end :D
Here's the original Newman/Benton script with the infamous Savalas "who loves you baby?" moment:
https://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/superman_original.txt
And their Superman II script:
https://www.supermanhomepage.com/movies/supermanii_scriptment_2_76.txt
This is almost my ranking except that I'd put Returns equal with III.
Telly Savalas IS Lex Luthor
Telly would have made a phenomenal Lex Luther, his Blofeld pretty much is Lex Luther.
Superman's actions in Superman Returns and the complete lack of understanding of how Kryptonite works irritates me and Spacey just is not Lex Luther.
I actually did think Jesse Eisenberg was good casting and could have played up to those qualities. But what Snyder went for… oof. And none of that intelligence comes through because of the big boneheaded decisions Lex was written to do. It was funny to see Snyder try to make a hard course correction by reintroducing Eisenberg’s Lex in a three piece suit and with a less jittery demeanor. It’s like seeing Mark Zuckerberg magically transform into Jeff Bezos.