‘Don’t Worry Darling’ and 19 Rocky Productions movies

Producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind had previously successfully shot films back-to-back. T.heir 1973 The Three Musketeers The film and its sequel were hugely successful.o they decided to go that route Superman, Develop two films at the same time to save money and then shoot.they commissioned the script godfather Writer Mario Puzo ran 500 pages (usually enough for four films) before finally embarking on directing: Richard Donner. , was problematic from the start, as they disagreed with Salkins on casting.Although he wanted to be a little famous, Donner thought that lesser-known actors would attract audiences more easily. He brought in Tom Mankiewicz and rewrote his script almost from scratch before agreeing to cast Christopher Reeve. In fact, Donner was right on almost every point, but the conflict escalated when the director went over budget and schedule, so Salkins basically took over his second part of the production. Superman II) left the donor and brought in Richard Lester To finish the project, refiIn light of much of Donner’s work in the second film, it restores a bit of its preferred campy tone.

Donner’s views were vindicated once the first film released to overwhelmingly positive reviews, a blockbuster box office hit, and a handful of Oscar nominations, but a second film was already in production. and it turned out Well, despite all the problems. In his third film, directed by Lester and completely donor-free, we take a look at what the entire series might have been like if production had gone more smoothly. In this case, the drama that resulted from bringing in a director willing to tip over a cart of apples was almost certainly worth it.

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