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Post by crazy_asian_man on Jul 21, 2014 23:28:03 GMT -5
I'd read in an OLD fanzine that the SII battle was to take place in an exploding volcano and elsewhere- but this is the first REAL confirmation that there's a draft out there- Man, I would LOVE it if this contributor shared the original script/ and MORE storyboards for this- Unbelievable. The SII fight originally expanded to the jungle- but I'm wondering whether or not (and how) Donner would have sewed this together with the flagpole confrontation at the Planet. In any case- once again- it opens up the imagination to what Donner would have done.... and I'm amazed that there's still new stuff out there to discover with SII! The storyboards in this link are AMAZING! collectingsuperman.com/?p=3322
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Post by booshman on Jul 22, 2014 5:12:14 GMT -5
Wow indeed, interesting stuff. More fuel to add to the "oh what could have been" fire.
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Post by crazy_asian_man on Jul 22, 2014 10:12:27 GMT -5
Very true--
When seeing that the woman who submitted the scans had a whole BOOK of storyboards- man, I wish she had scanned the whole thing to share.
On another note- It's interesting to speculate how this would have worked with the story. So many questions for the obsessive SII fan:
1. Was this going to be the MAIN fight, or the last one after a Metro battle? 2. Why a jungle, of all places? Would it have seemed cheaper to film there (rather than the Metropolis replica that was wasted) 3. Where does this sequeway into the volcano fight? I'd heard/read rumors decades ago about them tossing volcano chunks at each other..
Hm...
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Post by Metallo on Jul 24, 2014 11:18:20 GMT -5
We've all known for years that what Donner planned went well beyond what we got in Lester's cut. Even the stuff like the villains toppling the Washington monument and Zod knocking Superman into the Statue of Liberty was epic stuff and that was done less carefully and after the fact. It's a real shame and becomes a bigger shame as time goes on.
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Post by crazy_asian_man on Jul 24, 2014 14:08:58 GMT -5
We've all known for years that what Donner planned went well beyond what we got in Lester's cut. Even the stuff like the villains toppling the Washington monument and Zod knocking Superman into the Statue of Liberty was epic stuff and that was done less carefully and after the fact. It's a real shame and becomes a bigger shame as time goes on. True- but I thought the rumored volcano stuff would have been in the Mank script-- but it's interesting to see that it got to the stage where storyboards were being drawn up. And--- yeah, in many ways, the pain gets worse about what could have been done over time, rather than less.
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Post by atp on Jul 27, 2014 3:19:58 GMT -5
I'm not sure I like the idea of fighting in jungles and volcanoes. It just reminds me of the Nuclear Man stuff in Superman 4.
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Post by crazy_asian_man on Jul 27, 2014 13:46:42 GMT -5
I'm not sure I like the idea of fighting in jungles and volcanoes. It just reminds me of the Nuclear Man stuff in Superman 4. I read somewhere that they would have been hurling huge balls of volcanic ash at each other- could have been exciting under Donner. (Maybe using some of the sfx ideas gained from STM's dive into the underground lava?) The jungle stuff, though--- I agree, it doesn't sound all that exciting for a battle backdrop (although it could have been a good cost-saver)- but maybe the idea of wires getting stuck in the trees could have been a concern as well- which is why they dropped it. (I do think it's interesting that the bit where Non plops straight down on Supes is interesting- in that it was kept and re-used for the Metro battle).
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Post by crazy_asian_man on Jul 27, 2014 13:46:52 GMT -5
I'm not sure I like the idea of fighting in jungles and volcanoes. It just reminds me of the Nuclear Man stuff in Superman 4. I read somewhere that they would have been hurling huge balls of volcanic ash at each other- could have been exciting under Donner. (Maybe using some of the sfx ideas gained from STM's dive into the underground lava?) The jungle stuff, though--- I agree, it doesn't sound all that exciting for a battle backdrop (although it could have been a good cost-saver)- but maybe the idea of wires getting stuck in the trees could have been a concern as well- which is why they dropped it. (I do think it's interesting that the bit where Non plops straight down on Supes is interesting- in that it was kept and re-used for the Metro battle).
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