Leslie Newman

Sequel to 1978’s Superman with Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder returning...

The original Superman movie, an origin story, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel. Traces the world’s most famous superhero from Krypton infancy and Smallville boyhood, to his career as Daily Planet reporter Clark Kent (Chrisopher Reeve) and incarnation as Superman. Margot Kidder is Lois Lane, Gene Hackman is nemesis Lex Luthor and Marlon Brando is Jor-El.

The third Christopher Reeve-starring Superman movie sees the Man of Steel battle elements of himself as well as a computer genius (Richard Pryor).