The Winter 2018 edition of TwoMorrows’ publication “RetroFan #3” celebrates the 40th anniversary of “Superman: The Movie” with an exclusive interview with director Richard Donner.
In discussing his love of comic books, Donner remembers, “It was just escapism. I mean, we were kids, we’d come home from school after playing in the yard or somewhere on the school grounds, and our reading material would be whatever the newest comic book was that came out. I don’t know if it’s going on today – today it’s TV instead. But it was a comic book and every page was a phenomenal one to turn, and you lived the fantasies, between Superman and – now you’re gonna make me think of the others and I can’t – I mean, hundreds of them. Dick Tracy, Shazam! – what was that, Captain Marvel?”
“RetroFan #3” is available from TwoMorrows.com.
We all know the legacy of this movie. There’s nothing but greatness to say about it. BUT….it’s been forty years since it came out! It’s reprehensible to me that after all this time, we’ve been given four additional Superman movies, Superman Returns and the most recent three starting with MoS, and what are we doing? Still fawning over forty year old STM. With the Justice League now officially thrown over the cliff there hasn’t been a peep from the powers at the WB/DC on any further development of Superman. Is this all there is?? Are we waiting for the 45th… Read more »