Superman II- The Richard Donner Cut
Interview: Marc McClure on Superman II Donner Cut
"The director creates the atmosphere and he created a family," said McClure. "The new person in town was Richard Lester and there's really not a whole lot of family about him. The family part of it all was gone. It wasn't as good. It was 'Here, you stand here, you say your line, then when you say your line, walk over there and say your line' because Lester shot with three cameras. Rehearsals were iffy at best. It was just mechanical. What Donner does, he lets you find natural situations in your character and whatever it is. Lester wanted to get it over with as fast as he could where Donner took it on his shoulders that this is an important thing to do. And the responsibility of it is important, where directors after that didn't quite have that."
Lester had to reshoot much of the movie simply to earn a director credit over Donner, but McClure said it was not about reshooting the same scenes. "We did variations of different scenes. They really weren't the same scenes. It was just kind of a whole new thing. And like I say, it started with Donner. It was a different director who really was in a hurry to get out of there."
"The Donner Cut" may not show much more of Jimmy Olsen, but McClure is happy that other actors will get to shine. "It's going to remind everybody how great Chris is. And how great he was in this part and how good Donner is and how great everybody that worked back in 1977 to make this film as magical as it was."
Wearing a hat proclaiming Reeve's life, McClure couldn't stop singing his costar's praises. "He just became him. He created him. He created him for generations. He really did. It's hard to do that. It's really hard to do that. It could have been the fact that we didn't really know him before. He and Donner made him human, made him honest. If you can make a character on film human and honest, you've got yourself a pretty good start."
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is now available.
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