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- BFI identifier57338
- Date1979-08-27 (Production)
1981-04-17 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisSuperman battles super-powered criminals from his home world Krypton, led by General Zod, who have escaped imprisonment in the Phantom Zone. (Synopsis)
- Work historyRichard Lester replaced original director Richard Donner. Donner's version of the film released on DVD in US (11/2006)
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Superman II (Original)
Superman 2 (Help search)
Superman Two (Help search)
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10.5240/3C4F-2779-9FE7-9004-CE45-0Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm Colour Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsEphemera: publicity - PBS-57338
Superman II - Sequel to Superman (1978). Director: Richard Lester [who replaced Richard Donner]; producer: Pierre Spengler; screenplay: Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman; cast: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper, Susannah York, Sarah Douglas - RLE-1-19
Screenplay - 'final' - 'Final' screenplay, 503 pages July 1976 - RLE-1-19-1
Script - 2nd draft screenplay, annotated, 140 pages 20 July 1979 - RLE-1-19-2
Script - Partial draft screenplay [annotation on photocopied page inserts], no date c. 1979 - RLE-1-19-3
Script axtracts in Ivor Beddoes Collection (Item 10). Small pressbook held.
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: production - Original Acquisition Number BED-1602 cardboard boxes (originally containing A4 Xerox paper), containing continuity/set-up sketches. Some original pencil and/or felt pen, some with colouring, most Xerox photocopies. For various sequences. A number grouped by sequence, some bound with ACCO slide clips. Sequences often placed in boxes in no particular order. (1) 1 box of xerox copies of sketches, some groups with coloured tabs. Labelled in felt pen on side of box: SUPERMAN CONTINUITIES. By Stuart Craig, Roy Carnon, Tony Pratt, Reg Hill, Dennis Rich. / DUPLICATES." (2) 1 box of xerox copies of sketches, labelled in felt pen on side of box: "SUPERMAN (2) Script, call sheet, roughs, xeroxes." Original Acquisition Number BED-161 - BED161
Design: production - 1 large ring binder, maroon spine and grey marbled covers, labelled on spine "Destruction of New York / SUPERMAN Part 2". Unpaginated; at least 200 pages. Contents: Original continuity/storyboard sketches, pencil and felt pen on paper (most on tracing/layout paper). Some sketches dated (Oct-Nov-Dec 1977; Jan-Feb 1978). Plus several (at end of ring binder) gouache on paper, as well as some pages mounted with strips of 35mm film. Strips of coloured tape on cover of binder; first 2 labelled (red = Studio Lot; blue = Flying) -- although none of the sheets included in this binder have any coloured tabs. Labelled sequences include Fortress of Solitude, Helicopter Crash, Battle over New York (Teaser for End of Part I), TV Store Window, Int. Tunnel, Sound Waves, White House Corridor, Cat on the Electric Sign, Lois' Terrace, Lois Flying, Burglar, Golden Gate Bridge, Boulder Dam to Indian Reservation. Also sketches for sequence of Jumbo Jet/Storm [sequence not labelled]. - BED164
Design: production - 1 white paper package, labelled on cover: "Technical work-outs for SPFX shots on SUPERMAN TWO. Based upon my original continuity sketches. Using live action / T.M./Model shot by Derek Medding and his unit." Itemised breakdown of contents: (1) Sketch of Int. Fortress of Solitude (crystal grotto) with figures (Superman and his mother Lara). Labelled "T.M. Shot on [rest left blank]. Derek Medding supplying: Crystal model and transparencies.", annoated with camera specifications. [Note: "T.M." = Travelling Matte.] Pencil and felt pen on sheet of layout/tracing paper, taped over window mount containing b/w photo of set under construction, with art dept. crew [including, at lower right, Ivor Beddoes]. (2) Set of 7 sheets of dryline reproductions and Xerox photocopies of sketches, plans, and elevations for Fortress of Solitude, crystal grotto, including projections for flying. One elevation includes overlay sheet of layout/tracing paper, with markings in coloured felt pen. (3) 1 set of sketches, plans, and elevations for Fortress of Solitude set (crystal grotto): dryline plan/elevation with layout/tracing paper sheets of paper, xeroxed sketches, and b/w photo (labelled "Fortress of Solitude set on E. Stage. Photographed after I had projected the set for travelling matte and model shot"; identified in photo: Roy Field, Derek Medding, Terry Ackland-Snow, Ivor Beddoes ["Myself"]). - BED165
view all - StillsPhotograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00m-qfz
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- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes May 2013
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
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Work - 57338 - 1979-08-27 (Production)
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