World What Ending Would Donner have gone with?

[myway]

Without starting an argument over how the time reversal in SIIC worked, is there any information as to what Donner would have done had he the time to shoot another ending for SII? My guess is that he wouldn't reuse the same ending from STM.

 

[Jochimus]

I don't know what Donner would have done, but if it were my call, I'd just leave it at Superman and Lois' uncertain embrace outside the destroyed Fortress, then cut to the Diner scene and the final White House shot. In other words, leave it at Lois knowing that Clark is Superman. Because going to all that trouble to twist the status quo and then just wipe it clean again just doesn't feel right to me.

 

[zerohour films]

Yeah I would've left it with her knowing.
Then in a sequel (which I think at some point Donner mentioned he wanted to use Brainiac---or I could just be making that up??) they could've shown Lois trying to manage with the knowledge and who knows maybe Brainiac tries to exploit her for it. A big battle with Supes insues and maybe by the end of it her memory of that is wiped out by Brainiac.

Then by the third film you could have had things back to normal on Lois' side, but Clark still has the knowledge of their love and relationship to deal with.

 

[El Payaso]

No time reversing and no amnesia kiss.

Lois is left with hert heart broken in the hope that time will heal it, as with any other human being. Superman learns that he can't fix everything, including the consequences of his own actions (with which he has to learn to live with from now on).

 

[Catman]

If I'm not mistaken...Donner said on the DVD commentary track that he was gonna let Lois remember and that in the sequels you would have seen Lois and Clark sneaking into the closet and stuff like that.

 

[Superman2007]

I don't know what Donner would have done, but if it were my call, I'd just leave it at Superman and Lois' uncertain embrace outside the destroyed Fortress, then cut to the Diner scene and the final White House shot. In other words, leave it at Lois knowing that Clark is Superman. Because going to all that trouble to twist the status quo and then just wipe it clean again just doesn't feel right to me.

That's how I cut it for my fan-cut...it works extremely well and turns Superman II from farsical comedy to serious epic, just like the first.

 

[Batman Beyond]

What everyone has said... No kiss or STM repeat.

However, if he wanted his cut to sync with Singer's SR... The amnesia kiss, in that case, and only in that case.

 

[Batman Beyond]

Yeah I would've left it with her knowing.
Then in a sequel (which I think at some point Donner mentioned he wanted to use Brainiac---or I could just be making that up??) they could've shown Lois trying to manage with the knowledge and who knows maybe Brainiac tries to exploit her for it. A big battle with Supes insues and maybe by the end of it her memory of that is wiped out by Brainiac.

Then by the third film you could have had things back to normal on Lois' side, but Clark still has the knowledge of their love and relationship to deal with.

Pretty neat idea, actually.

 

[maenalus]

I think originally Donner's plan was in the first one, Superman brings Lois back to life with a kiss, and in the second one he turns back time to undo all the death and destruction Zod and the gang caused. But the Salkinds didn't like what Donner was doing and insisted the time-reversal scene be used for the first one. Then of course they fired Donner and got Lester to reshoot parts of the second one, I think the whole Lois being made to forget Clark is Superman thing was Lester's doing.

 

[Batman Beyond]

Well, WB actually approached Donner and told him that had the first film been a flop, no SII would materialize and it'd be cancelled, thus no way for the big finale - the turning-back-in-time thing - to be showcased, so they thought it best to showcase that in the first film, with the option of finding out about a suitable finale for SII when that time had come.

 

[Jordacar]

I love the idea that at the end Lois knows. No spinning back the earth, no superkiss. That final scene when Superman drops her off at her place, teary-eyed "Same old Clark, same old Lois. Your secret's safe with me." That's the heartfelt closing the two of them deserve.