Superman II Footage

A bunch of really cool Superman Footage

Superman II The Richard Lesnner Cut Part 1: This very skillful woman decided to re-edit Superman II with Donner and Lester’s footage to make a completely different cut from the Lester, Donner and International cuts of this film.

~She uses the Alt opening with a pan across Krypton’s surface that was restored to Donner’s cut. I always loved this take because it is a close pan across the surface of the planet instead of a pan down like in the first film. Great use of John Williams’ Krypton theme here, considering he didn’t write music for part II.

~The film then blends this cut into Lester’s opening with Zod and his two buddies killing a guard and Zod breaking a red crystal. What was this crystal used for and why did he break it? Marlon Brando is restored to the trial of the three Super Villains. Brando is completely removed from Lester’s cut.

~The Krypton guard is wearing a modified version of the uniform that the security guards in the deleted footage from Superman I wear. In that deleted footage, the council orders Jor-El’s death and a guard is dispatched to kill him. The guard is killed during the destruction of the planet before he is able to murder Jor-El. (Note: Great transition from the Dome to the Guard’s helmet here.)

~There is no explosion at the beginning that frees the three Villains in this cut. I liked Donner’s take on how the Villains got free better.

Superman II The Richard Lesnner Cut Part 2: The opening credits have the original John Williams Main Theme and not the poorly done Ken Thorne version.

The clip below gives us some more info into the Donner cut…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tcJTKJ4W8-E&mode=related&search=

Comment: This was pretty neat.