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Jun 17, 2023 · June 17, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe. Tom Jolliffe looks back at Superman III, the much-maligned third outing for Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel, released 40 years ago today…. In more recent ...
- Tom Jolliffe
- 12 min
Jun 16, 2023 · It's not a great look that, 40 years later, Richard Pryor's Gus Gorman is still the most prominent Black character featured in a Superman movie. Man of Steel does try to add more color to his ...
Mr. Nolan, a producer of Man of Steel, said he thought of Mr. Snyder to direct the film because of his stylized takes on 300 and Watchmen, and his “innate aptitude for dealing with superheroes ...
- 15 Superman Movies in Order of Release
- 12 Superman
- 11 Superman II
- 10 Superman III
- 9 Superman IV: The Quest For Peace
- 7 Superman Returns
- 5 Man of Steel
- 4 Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice
- 3 Justice League
- 2 Zack Snyder’s Justice League
First up, here are the Superman movies in order of release. Superman– December 15, 1978 Superman II– June 19, 1981 Superman III– June 17, 1983 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace– July 24, 1987 Superman Returns– June 28, 2006 Man of Steel – June 14, 2013 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice– March 25, 2016 Justice League– November 17, 2017 Zack Snyder’s...
With a story by Mario Puzo, writer of both the book and the film The Godfather, music by John Williams (Star Wars), and breathtaking special effects,Superman set the standard for superhero cinema for decades to come. Director Richard Donner partnered with the animation team and the cinematographer, Geoffrey Unsworth, behind 2001: A Space Odyssey, t...
Production for Superman II was well underway before Superman (1978) was released. Due to his dedication to the soon-to-be-released Superman movie, Richard Donner was removed as director during the final leg of filming and replaced by Richard Lester (The Three Musketeers). Production was further complicated by the passing of legendary cinematographe...
The first entry in the series untouched by Donner, Puzo, or Unsworth, Superman III tries to split screen time between Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, and an evil Christopher Reeve. It’s a wackier iteration that attempts to incorporate more humor into the already rather light-hearted series. It does away with the surreal, dream-like presentation o...
The final and shortest entry in Christopher Reeve’s tenure as Superman, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace follows the Man of Steel on his path to ridding the globe of nuclear weapons. Framed during the Cold War, Superman sets out to denuclearize humanity while his archnemesis Lex Luthor, still played by Gene Hackman, once again escapes from prison. ...
Superman Returns ignores the continuity of the past two films and is intended as a spiritual follow-up to Superman and Superman II, so chronologically it could fit right after Superman II, but you'd then have to not count the following Reeve films. In Superman Returns, Superman returns to Earth following a five-year trip to see what remains of Kryp...
The first Superman film of the post-Dark Knight era of superhero films is the blockbuster sci-fi spectacle, Man of Steel. Directed by Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 300), Man of Steel features all of his trademark stylings and introduces Henry Cavill to the world as Superman. The first film origin story since Superman (1978) embraces the science fiction si...
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is the ambitious follow-up to Man of Steel, and it introduces Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Batman (Ben Affleck), Cyborg (Ray Fisher), The Flash (Ezra Miller), Lex Luthor (Jesse Eisenberg), and Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot) to the Snyder-verse. Set shortly after the devastating Kryptonian assault on Metropolis in Man of Stee...
Another, possibly, unceremonious ending for Superman comes by way of 2017’s Justice League. In the weeks following Superman’s death, Bruce Wayne sets out to assemble a group of heroes to combat an incoming alien invasion. A director swap near the end of filming, due to tragedy, saw Zack Snyder exit the project and Joss Whedon (Avengers, Avengers: A...
Justice League was so different from previous footage used for marketing material that some fans began begging to see Snyder's original vision for the film, before he left at the beginning of post-production. And after a few years of refusal by Warner Bros., HBO Max announced in 2020 that they would allow Snyder to finish and release Zack Snyder’s ...
Jan 29, 2024 · Of Superman's many powers, one of his biggest did not appear in his DCEU debut, Man of Steel, in a conscious decision by Zack Snyder. With the benefit of hindsight, Man of Steel is much less divisive today than in 2013, with many now lauding the fresh take on the titular hero, and Henry Cavill's portrayal of Superman in particular. At the time ...
- Ollie Bradley
- Staff Writer
Zack Snyder revealed at San Diego Comic-Con the following month that Superman and Batman would appear in the sequel to Man of Steel, with Cavill, Adams, Lane and Fishburne set to reprise their roles. [ 199 ] [ 200 ] [ 201 ] The film's title, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice , was revealed in May 2014, [ 202 ] and it was theatrically released on March 25, 2016.
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Apr 5, 2024 · Man of Steel. An alien child is evacuated from his dying world and sent to Earth to live among humans. His peace is threatened when other survivors of his home planet invade Earth. Zack Snyder was a controversial filmmaker for DC, yet many fans agree that Man of Steel got some aspects of Superman right.
