Team NC-17 thought long and hard about the options available this late in the draft, and what would be available in the catagories left to choose from.
And flipping through the TV over the last week... there it was, the one movie that needed to be picked...
So, without further delay...
In the FANTASY catagory, Team NC-17 has wet their pants in elation, to be able to select...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078346/
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Steven Spielberg was offered the chance to direct this film, but the producers balked at the salary he asked for. They decided to wait until they saw how "this fish movie" (
Jaws (1975)) that he had just completed did at the box office. The movie was a huge success, and Spielberg went on to other projects.
- As a nod to the original comics, Clark Kent is seen briefly considering a phone booth as a place to convert into his alter-ego for the first time, before deciding on another solution.
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Christopher Reeve worked out so much during the making of the film that the traveling matte shots taken of him at the beginning of the shoot did not match the later shots, and had to be re-taken.
- Clark Kent's and Superman's hair part on opposite sides.
- The end titles sequence is more than seven minutes long, a record at the time of the film's release in 1978.
- The first baby Kal-El in the flight sequence of the escape capsule was played by Elizabeth Sweetman. The filming took place at Pinewood in October 1978 when Elizabeth was 6 months old. She earned £40 per day for four days work, netting a grand total of £120 after agency fee deductions.
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Marlon Brando refused to memorize most of his lines in advance. In the scene where he puts infant Kal-El into the escape pod, he was actually reading his lines from the diaper of the baby.
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Robert Redford,
Clint Eastwood and
James Caan were all offered the movie's title role. All three turned it down: Redford wanted too much money; Eastwood said he was too busy; Caan said, "There's no way I'm getting into that silly suit."
- To obtain the musculature to convincingly play Superman,
Christopher Reeve underwent a bodybuilding regime supervised by
David Prowse, the man who played Darth Vader in the original "Star Wars" trilogy.
- The credits sequence cost more than most films made up to that point.
<---my mind after reading Proto's pick 
