The Adventure Continues...Again

There's been internet chatter about it for months...Speculation has now ended...Superman Homepage has posted exclusive news that will send fans of Superman-The Movie into orbit...

In conjunction with the release of Superman Returns, the studio is going to re-release the first 4 films in the series and 1984's Supergirl on DVD. On the surface, the news may seem ho-hum, but anyone who read the review I posted of the first film, already knows how I feel about the movie. While I admit that that the last 2 films in the series were missing "the magic" of the original, and Supergirl has its share of faults, what happened to director Richard Donner while he was finishing Superman II was a "crime".

You can imagine how excited I got when I read the news that the footage Donner shot for Supes II (about 70%-80% of the film) before he was fired and replaced, will be part of the new DVD! Here's what the film's Executive Producer Ilya Salkind had to say about the release in the interview conducted by Barry M. Freiman for the Superman Homepage website:

"Scenes shot by fired director Richard Donner..., including all of Brando's work for the second film, may finally see the light of day. "There will be a Donner cut [of "Superman II"] from what I hear," Salkind said. "There will apparently be an original cut with the original music and more stuff."

Whether the extra footage will be presented as an alternative version of the film or included as a supplement has not yet been determined.

For those of us who already knew the complete back story of the first two Man Of Steel flicks, this is great news, and something we have waited a long time to see. I don't know if I will be buying all five of these films But one things for sure...The Special Edition of Superman II is a must own and the fanboy in me can't wait...