Remembering Richard Donner, Superman s real-life best friend
The 1978 Superman movie was a turning point in how superheroes are seen on the screen and that s all thanks to one man who stuck to his vision.
By
Chris Taylor
on July 6, 2021
Director Richard Donner, left, gave us the ultimate movie vision of the ultimate hero seen here with fictional best pals Jimmy, Lois and Perry.
Credit: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images
The decade didn t seem right for Superman. Few critics believed that such an optimistic, principled, possibly naive comic book hero could succeed on screen in an era like that. It was a decade of war, of recession and an increasingly ravaged environment. In the wake of a lawless president, cinemas were filled with dystopian, cynical, anti-hero movies, and those movies were filled with hyper-realistic violence.
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