While waiting for James Gunn’s Superman’s exit, we go back until 1987, when Christopher Reeve, who hated the sequels, agreed to led the cast of Superman IV to a pact and despite the poor success of Superman III.
On July 9 he arrives in the room Superman Of James Gunnand since cinecomic enthusiasts do not speak of anything else, there is nothing more natural than returning to the past to retrace the history of the cinematographic adaptations of the adventures starring the superhero of the DC Comics that made us so much dream. As everyone knows, it was the indelible mark on Superman con Christopher Reevereleased in 1978 and directed by Richard Donner. Also interpreted by Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman e Margot Kidderhad three sequels: Superman II, Superman III e Superman IV. Needless to say, nobody was as beautiful as the first movie, but if Superman II he reached the same success as his predecessor, perhaps because a good part of the film had been directed by Donner himself (later replaced by Richard Lester), the same cannot be said for Superman III e Superman IV. The latter was called the worst film of the franchise, either for technical errors and you want for the extremely reduced budget. We talk about it today is because Collider informs us of the reason why Christopher Reeve He agreed to do so, despite having sensed that he was very far from perfection.
The reason why Christopher Reeve agreed to do Superman IV
To witness the skepticism of Christopher Reeve towards Superman IV It was first of all his poor trust in the sequels. Hollywood for the latter, third and quarters films spoke of this obsession, spoke in an interview with BBC in 1988 saying that the cinema industry “suffered from a serious illness called sequelitis”. But then what had pushed him to say yes, the previous year, to the director Sidney J. Furie? The actor agreed to still wear the red boots and the blue suit to the condition that the film dealt with themes that were close to him, and that therefore he could intervene on the script. So he said that the film was to narrate the story of a boy who wrote a letter to Superman asking him to stop the race for nuclear weapons. In fact, in the film there is the child who asks the superhero to free the world from nuclear weapons, only that the story becomes much more complicated.
Everyone knows Christopher Reeve Also for his commitment as an activist in the campaigns in defense of the rights of disabled people and for his support to research on stem cells and therapeutic cloning, which has also helped through the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation. Together with his wife the actor then founded the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center, a hospital in which he is taught to paraplegic to live in the most independent way possible. At the time of Superman IV The concerns of the good Christopher They were others, but they still denoted an interest in the fate of our planet and mankind. If therefore Superman IV It went very bad, the fault is certainly not of Reevewhich really had the goodness of mind, the resilience and empathy of the superhero who had agreed to impersonate.
