Post by Martin-El on Oct 27, 2009 7:22:13 GMT -5
Having looked with considerable envy ay 'Noldy's collection of all thngs Super I went back through my archive and found a little gem I think I neglected to share -
Fairly anonymous so far eh? What If I told you it was found in a skip in Elstree studios in the early nineties?
The spine was intriguing and the thing weighed a ton - but what could be inside??
So imagine my elation when I find 117 double sided pages of script and storyboard for Superman IV - The full version!!!
Literally the film in a binder....
This is veteran artist Martin Asbury ay his scratchy best. Some familiar scenes below plus some 'boards from the excised footage...
For all I know, this may be the only complete example of this in existance. I was initially dissapointed it was only the latter half f the picture (picking up from the 'No pain, no gain' scene) but shouldn't be too put out as it cost me a tenner from somebody that obviously doesn't realise Propstore of London charge a hundred pounds a page for this sort of thing....
Having read it closely I become more outraged with how the final picture ended up. While some scenes could still do with excising, the fight amongst planets and the confrontation outside Metropolis Tower should have been the epic battles as concieved. There is also plenty of evidence here that at least the taxi scenes in that battle were all shot with notes like 'roto out wires' for the cars - as demonstrated in the cleanest version of this still to date...
And opposed as I am to CGI - I can't help thinking that skillful re-cutting and replacing Pillow with a formidable CGI beastie similar to the designs for the 'board would be so much better...
Its all turd-polishing I know. But when you look at the Hackman scenes where he's playing off one side against the other, they don't deserve deletion from anything....
And cast your eyes over this one more time...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWF64hja_VY
Even though this much-lauded scene attains some credibility (mostly thanks to Courage masterful score) it still wouldn't make any final cut of my making.
No, my good friends, IV is, and always will be more a source of conjecture than a good movie. But as Reeve's final show in the role, you can't help but to want to make it better...
Fairly anonymous so far eh? What If I told you it was found in a skip in Elstree studios in the early nineties?
The spine was intriguing and the thing weighed a ton - but what could be inside??
So imagine my elation when I find 117 double sided pages of script and storyboard for Superman IV - The full version!!!
Literally the film in a binder....
This is veteran artist Martin Asbury ay his scratchy best. Some familiar scenes below plus some 'boards from the excised footage...
For all I know, this may be the only complete example of this in existance. I was initially dissapointed it was only the latter half f the picture (picking up from the 'No pain, no gain' scene) but shouldn't be too put out as it cost me a tenner from somebody that obviously doesn't realise Propstore of London charge a hundred pounds a page for this sort of thing....
Having read it closely I become more outraged with how the final picture ended up. While some scenes could still do with excising, the fight amongst planets and the confrontation outside Metropolis Tower should have been the epic battles as concieved. There is also plenty of evidence here that at least the taxi scenes in that battle were all shot with notes like 'roto out wires' for the cars - as demonstrated in the cleanest version of this still to date...
And opposed as I am to CGI - I can't help thinking that skillful re-cutting and replacing Pillow with a formidable CGI beastie similar to the designs for the 'board would be so much better...
Its all turd-polishing I know. But when you look at the Hackman scenes where he's playing off one side against the other, they don't deserve deletion from anything....
And cast your eyes over this one more time...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWF64hja_VY
Even though this much-lauded scene attains some credibility (mostly thanks to Courage masterful score) it still wouldn't make any final cut of my making.
No, my good friends, IV is, and always will be more a source of conjecture than a good movie. But as Reeve's final show in the role, you can't help but to want to make it better...
