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The following is information about the donner cut coming out later this year ... read at your own risk:
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The new film will feature a number of never-before-seen scenes, which will replace scenes re-filmed by Richard Lester. These include the original opening of the film set in the offices of the Daily Planet. Thus far, this is the only part of the new version of Superman II to have been screened publically - forming part of Warners' January 2006 press announcement that Donner's re-cut was underway. At that time, the website Movieweb.com reported "...the lights we're dimmed and we were treated to Donner's original opening of Superman II...Lois Lane is reading an article on Superman. She sees Clark Kent across the room, who is standing with his arms folded, and she realizes that the two look quite similar. After drawing a hat, glasses and a suit on Superman, she and Clark are summoned into Perry White's office and informed of an assignment they will work on together in Niagara Falls. Perry soon leaves the room and Lois begins dropping hints to Clark that she thinks he's Superman. Clark of course denies this and Lois, believing he is lying, throws herself out the window. As she is tumbling in the air, Clark makes his way down to the street below. Using his "wind blowing" powers he slows up Lois's descent, and then makes an awning drop (courtesy of his "laser-like" eye power) so that Lois's fall is eventually broken by a fruit stand. Even with a temporary score and titles like "Work Test" cut into this piece, it still very much captured the spirit of what a Richard Donner cut of Superman II might have in store."
Other scenes can be guessed at from the 1977 Tom Mankiewicz script. It is as yet unconfirmed whether these shots were actually filmed, and if so, whether (and how) they will appear on the DVD.
Other scenes can be guessed at from the 1977 Tom Mankiewicz script. It is as yet unconfirmed whether these shots were actually filmed, and if so, whether (and how) they will appear on the DVD.
- Jor-El recites the "Trees" poem to Luthor, and delivers the dialog delivered by Lara in the Lester version.
- The villains land in Texas instead of Idaho as in the Lester version. They have a confrontation with local police, but don't destroy an entire town as in Lester's film.
- Zod delivers his demand to take over the Earth from the top of the Washington Monument, not the small town. This is interspersed with shots of Non destroying the Eiffel Tower, and the Kremlin and Tokyo in flames, destroyed by the villains. Zod then destroys the Washington Monument when police attack him.
- When Superman gives up his powers, it is Jor-El he speaks to, not Lara. Jor-El is more confrontational, scolding his son on dereliction of his duty.
- Ursa remolds Mount Rushmore all by herself (Lester had all three doing that)
- Legendary scenes featuring Marlon Brando, in which Jor-El sacrifices his life in order to restore powers to his son.
- The Metropolis fight is completely different. There is no scene where Metropolis civilians attack the villains and are driven off by super-breath.
- There is no longer a fight in the Fortress of Solitude.
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