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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is a 1987 superhero film directed by Sidney J. Furie and written by Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal from a story by Christopher Reeve, Konner, and Rosenthal based on the DC Comics character Superman. [6]
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace: Directed by Sidney J. Furie. With Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure. With the world on the brink of a nuclear war, Superman takes it upon himself to destroy all nuclear weapons.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Sidney J. Furie
- 1987-07-24
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
- 9 Dave Fleischer Started It Off
- 8 Spencer Gordon Bennet & Thomas Carr Filled in The Mythology
- 7 Spencer Gordon Bennet Gave The Man of Steel His First Challenge
- 6 Lee Sholem Launched Superman to New Heights
- 5 Richard Donner Made Superman Real
- 4 Richard Lester Brought The Humor
- 3 Sidney J. Fury Put Superman in The Middle of A Real Crisis
- 2 Bryan Singer Made The Man of Steel A Father
- 1 Zack Snyder Gave Fans A Conflicted Hero
Best known for their Betty Boop and Popeye cartoons, Fleischer Studios was given a licensing deal to create animated Superman films under the direction of Dave Fleischer. The nine short Superman films that Fleischer Studios made cost $100,000 apiece, or close to $2 million today. By comparison, their popular Popeyecartoons cost a quarter of that. B...
Seven years after the Fleischer Studios shorts premiered, Kirk Alyn became the first man to play Superman in live-action. In the Superman serials, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet and Thomas Carr, audiences were, for the first time outside of comics, shown the story behind the character, starting with Jor-El and Lara on the doomed planet Krypton a...
While the 1948 Superman serial had the Metropolis Marvel face off against the villainous Spider Lady, it was the 1950 serial, Atom Man vs. Superman where the hero faced off against his first supervillain from the comics in live-action. In the series, directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, Superman faces off against Lex Luthorand his disintegrating mach...
Superman and the Mole Men, directed by Lee Sholem, was the world's introduction to one of the most iconic versions of the Man of Steel. Along with being the first full-length Superman film, Superman and the Mole Men also introduced George Reeves as the beloved hero, a role he would continue to play on the Adventures of SupermanTV series for six yea...
In the United States, the late 1970s were a time where no one was interested in authority figures. Between the disaster of the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon resigning from the Presidency because of the Watergate scandal, the idea of a powerful figure doing the right thing and declaring that he stood for "truth, justice, and the American way" seemed...
While Richard Donner made audiences believe a man could fly by putting the character in the real world and never making fun of Superman's comic book roots, director Richard Lester went in the opposite direction. Lester, best known for the Beatles films A Hard Day's Night and Help!, took over directing Superman IIfrom Donner, who was fired during pr...
One of the basics of superhero storytelling is that the heroes never get involved with real-world problems. This was mainly born out of the rise of comics just as World War II was starting—creators like Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster felt it would be in bad taste to have Superman fly over to Nazi Germany and beat up Hitler while actual men and women ...
Coming off the success of the first two X-Men films, Bryan Singer was given carte blanche for his 2005 film, Superman Returns. The film, which introduced Brandon Routh as Superman, is a direct sequel to the Donner and Lester Superman films while ignoring Superman III and IV. In the film, Superman returns from a long journey in space to find a very ...
Following the success of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, Warner Brothers started to look for a way to revitalize Superman in the same fashion as Nolan had done for Batman. Turning to 300 and Watchmen director Zack Snyder to take charge, 2012's Man of Steelwas born. Snyder's version of Superman brought in something that no other director had gi...
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- Editor
Feb 25, 2023 · Spencer Gordon Bennett served as the director for both series, though he shared co-directing duties with Thomas Carrin the first Superman Serial. Superman and The Mole Men. Superman and the...
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is the fourth and final Superman movie, and the fifth in the series overall including Supergirl. Released four years after the third installment and nine after the first, it was the only movie in the series that did not involve Ilya Salkind .
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace is a 1987 superhero film, the last of the Superman theatrical movies starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel. In this film, Superman battled Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) and his creation, a solar-powered evil clone of Superman called Nuclear Man.
