Superman III opens on an unemployment line, to show the teeming Metropolis has its share of real-world problems. Pryor grubs a smoke and gets the idea for an ideal job that requires no skill, computers. Lester even lets Supe do a pie-in-the-face take. Fans were particularly upset at the opening though a cosmic ballet does have its own slapstick possibilities. Lois Lane jets off to Bermuda in a hot purple string bikini. Superman is free to look up some old girlfriends. Another hallmark of Lester films is his history.
Office computers know where all the half-cents go when they disappear from payroll and Gus Gorman knows how to talk to computers and get them to do what he wants. Bad deeds have their own rewards. Superman always gets there in the nick of time. He can leisurely stroll in to save Jimmy Olsen, X-ray him and give a diagnosis just to let the tension mount before he saves the day with semi-seconds to spare. Just see it. It happens to the best superheroes.
Usually every other movie. But Lester did it first. Superman beats Vaughan in a game of Space Invaders. Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter for all news updates related to the world of geek. Tony Sokol tsokol. Culture Editor Tony Sokol is a writer, playwright and musician. He contributed to Altvariety, Chiseler, Smashpipe, and other magazines.
Like any movie, there are plenty of fun little bits and bobs that people forget, or possibly never even knew. Here are 10 awesome things you didn't know about Superman III. While Christopher Reeve is clearly the star of the four Superman movies he played the Man of Steel in, he did not receive top billing for the first two movies.
Superman III is the only one of the Christopher Reeve Superman movies that neither Brando or Hackman appear in, which opened the door for Reeve to get the top spot on the cast list. While writing out Kidder's Lois Lane wouldn't be the hardest thing to do, you can't have a Superman movie without Superman.
Shortly before shooting was to begin, Tony Danza agreed to play the Man of Steel, much to director Richard Lester's mortification. Lester begged Reeve to return to the role, and the iconic Superman actor gave in.
For the opening scene of Superman III , director Richard Lester created a rather comical sequence showing what is, in theory, an ordinary Metropolis morning. A series of seemingly random events lead to a man being trapped in his car as it fills with water in the middle of the street. Reporter Clark Kent jumps into a photo booth and quickly changes into Superman to save the day.
When he comes out of the booth, there's a little boy standing there. Superman gives the boy one of the pictures taken in the photo booth before flying off. That little boy is played by Aaron Smolinski. Smolinski is also in Man of Steel where he plays a "Communications Officer.
After the success of Superman: The Movie and Superman II , the Salkinds, who controlled the Superman movie license, knew they wanted to make a third film, but they couldn't figure out what to do. At one point, the movie was going to feature Mister Mxyzptlk as the villain, and actor Dudley Moore was in talks. The substitution of tar which Gorman used after glancing at a cigarette carton for a crucial, but unknown, component resulted in the synthetic kryptonite behaving like Red and Black Kryptonite: in this case, turning Superman evil and eventually split him into two people.
Bizarro and Clark Kent, the embodiment of Superman's remaining good qualities, engage in an epic battle at a deserted junkyard, where Clark emerges victorious and Bizarro fades from sight. Later, Gorman's greatest creation, the Ultimate Computer, severely weakens Superman with a Kryptonite ray before Gorman has a change of heart and attacks his own machine.
Ross and Lorelei are able to escape from the control room, but Vera is sucked into the huge circuitboard. The computer transforms her into a robot and she attacks the other two. Superman arrives, and destroys the computer, turning Vera back to normal. He then flies away, taking Gus with him. There is a subplot in this film detailing Clark Kent's return to Smallville for his high school reunion, where he reconnects with Lana Lang Annette O'Toole , an old childhood friend.
Lana is now a divorcee with a son named Ricky Paul Kaethler. Lana's former boyfriend Brad Gavan O'Herlihy , a former jock and Clark's childhood bully, is now a security guard and is still vying for her attention. Another problem may have been that the trailer seemed to spoil much of the movie itself.
This show included interviews with actors in the film who had flown to London for the United Kingdom and European premiere. Some clips from the film were shown, including where Superman is flying Gus to the coal mine and explaining how he used the acid to destroy the supercomputer, thus revealing the ending of the film. A frequent criticism of Superman III is the inclusion of comedian Richard Pryor, who had the second biggest role in the movie behind Christopher Reeve. Hackman, along with Margot Kidder Lois Lane , were angry with the way the Salkinds treated Superman director Richard Donner, and Hackman retaliated by refusing to reprise the role of Lex Luthor entirely though he would later be persuaded to come back for Superman IV: The Quest for Peace in with which the Salkinds had no connection.
With the choice to give a more prominent role to Lana Lang, Lois's part was reduced for story reasons. Salkind also denied the reports about Gene Hackman being upset with him, stating he didn't return due to prior commitments.
Similar to the Lois arc, Salkind felt the villianous arc would wear out, feeling fans would get sick of Luthor constantly breaking out of prison to yet again concoct a grandoise scam akin to incessant horror movie sequels where a serial killer keeps coming back from the grave to murder a new batch of victims.
Fans also placed most of the blame on director Richard Lester. Lester broke tradition by having Superman III opening up with a prolonged slapstick sequence often compared with silent comedy with difficult-to-read titles over it the first two movies opened up in outer space with big and bold credits. Fans believed that Lester, unlike Donner, had virtually little, if any, knowledge or, more importantly, respect for the Superman legacy and legend.
In fact, Richard Donner was supposedly fired because he wouldn't follow the Salkinds' vision of Superman being campy a la the Batman television series starring Adam West.
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