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- BFI identifier2655
- Date1983-06-17 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisBased on a comic strip. Superman competes his intelligence with an evil mastermind and a computer genius who finds out the one material that can destroy the Man of Steel. Merging the known element of Kryptonite with a guess at the unknown, the genius creates a new Kryptonite that doesn't kill Superman, but turns him evil. Meanwhile, an enormous computer has been built for the mastermind that becomes self-aware and cannot be shut off. (Synopsis)
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- CreditsDirector: Richard Lester
Production Company: Dovemead Limited
Production Company: Cantharus Productions
view all - CastChristopher Reeve (Clark Kent/Superman)
Richard Pryor (Gus Gorman)
Jackie Cooper (Perry White)
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Title
Superman III (Original)
Superman vs. Superman (Help search)
Superman 3 (Help search)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/625E-6307-EF55-7327-F6B1-ACategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Master
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Status pending
35mm Internegative - Safety - Mute - Master
view all - Scripts / DocumentsEphemera: publicity - PBS-2655
Superman III - Third of the Superman films. Director: Richard Lester; producer: Pierre Spengler; screenplay: David Newman, Leslie Newman, based on characters by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; cast: Christopher Reeve, Richard Pryor, Jackie Cooper, Marc McLure, Margot Kidder, Robert Vaughan, Annette O'Toole, Annie Ross, Pamela Stephenson - RLE-1-20
Script: treatment - Treatment by Joseph Morhaim and A. Sanford Wolf, based on the story by Ilya Salkind, no date c. 1981 - 1982 - RLE-1-20-1
Script - Screenplay by David Newman and Leslie Newman, 161 pages, no annotation October 1981 - RLE-1-20-2
Script - Second draft screenplay titled 'Superman vs. Superman' by David Newman and Leslie Newman, 190 pages, revised January 1982 - RLE-1-20-3
Unfilmable small press-sheet held.
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Work - 2655 - 1983-06-17 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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