Dive into nostalgia with our Superman 1978 poster! Rediscover the iconic hero of Metropolis in a cult film that will transport you to a world of superpowers, romance, and adventure. Show your love for this cinematic masterpiece with our collectible poster.
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Description of this Superman 1978 Poster
Superman is a 1978 superhero film based on the DC Comics character. It is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Panama, and the United States, supervised by Alexander and Ilya Salkind, produced by their partner Pierre Spengler, and written by Mario Puzo from a story by Puzo, and the first installment in the Superman film series. Directed by Richard Donner, the film stars an ensemble cast including Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, Jeff East, Margot Kidder, Glenn Ford, Phyllis Thaxter, Jackie Cooper, Trevor Howard, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Valerie Perrine, Ned Beatty, Jack O’Halloran, Maria Schell, and Sarah Douglas. It depicts the origins of Superman (Reeve), including his childhood as Kal-El of Krypton, son of Jor-El (Brando), and his younger years in the rural town of Smallville. Disguised as the reporter Clark Kent, he adopts a gentle demeanor in Metropolis and develops a romance with Lois Lane (Kidder) while battling the villainous Lex Luthor (Hackman).
Ilya first came up with the idea for a Superman film in 1973, and after a difficult process with DC Comics, the Salkinds and Spenglers purchased the rights to the character the following year. Several directors, including Guy Hamilton, and screenwriters (Mario Puzo, David and Leslie Newman, and Robert Benton), were attached to the project before Richard Donner was hired to direct. Tom Mankiewicz was recruited to rewrite the script and was given the title of “creative consultant.” It was decided to shoot Superman and its sequel Superman II (1980) simultaneously, with principal photography beginning in March 1977 and concluding in October 1978. Tensions arose between Donner and the producers, and it was decided to stop filming on the sequel, 75% of which had already been completed, and to complete the first film.
The most expensive film made up to that point, with a budget of $55 million, Superman was released in December 1978 to critical and financial success; its worldwide grosses of $300 million made it the second-highest-grossing film of the year. The film was praised for Reeve’s performance and John Williams’s musical score, and was nominated for three Academy Awards, including Best Film Editing, Best Music (Original Score), and Best Sound, and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for Visual Effects. In 2017, Superman was selected for preservation in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry.
On the planet Krypton, Jor-El, a member of the Kryptonian High Council, discovers that the planet will soon be destroyed by the explosion of its red supergiant sun. The other council members reject his claims. To save his infant son, Kal-El, Jor-El sends him in a spaceship to Earth, where his dense molecular structure gives him superhuman strength and other powers. Krypton is then destroyed.
The ship lands near Smallville, Kansas. Kal-El, about three years old, is found by Jonathan and Martha Kent, who are amazed to see him lifting their truck. They decide to raise him as their own and name him Clark, after Martha’s maiden name. Jonathan tells the boy that he had to be sent to Earth for “a reason.”
After Jonathan dies of a heart attack, 18-year-old Clark hears a psychic “calling” and discovers a glowing green crystal in the remains of his spaceship. This prompts him to travel to the Arctic where he uses the crystal to build the Fortress of Solitude, which resembles the architecture of Krypton. Inside, a hologram of Jor-El explains Clark’s true origins, and after twelve years of education about his reason for being sent to Earth and his powers, he leaves the Fortress wearing a blue and red suit with a red cape and the House of El family crest on his chest. Now a reporter for the Daily Planet in Metropolis, Clark meets Lois Lane, his co-worker, with whom he develops a romantic attraction.
Lois is involved in a helicopter crash. Clark publicly uses his powers for the first time to save her, astonishing the crowd gathered below. He then thwarts a jewel thief attempting to scale the Solow Building, captures thieves fleeing police and dropping their cruise ship on Wall Street, rescues a young girl’s cat from a tree, and saves Air Force One after an engine is destroyed by lightning. The “caped prodigy” becomes an instant celebrity. Perry White, the boss of the Daily Planet, wants the newspaper to find out more information about him. The next evening, Clark visits Lois in her penthouse for an interview and takes her on a plane ride; Lois then writes an article in which she names him “Superman.”
Meanwhile, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor learns of a joint nuclear missile test by the U.S. Army and Navy. He purchases hundreds of acres of desert land and reprograms the two missiles to detonate in the San Andreas Fault, with his assistant Otis accidentally programming the second missile’s coordinates incorrectly. Knowing that Superman could stop his plan, Lex deduces that a recently discovered meteorite is from Krypton and is radioactive to Superman. After retrieving a piece of this meteorite with his accomplices Otis and Eve Teschmacher, Luthor lures Superman into his underground lair and reveals his plan to sink everything west of the San Andreas Fault into the Pacific Ocean, leaving Luthor’s desert land to become the new West Coast of the United States. Luthor then exposes him to kryptonite, a mineral contained in the meteorite, which greatly weakens Superman, while Luthor taunts him about the second missile detonating in Hackensack, New Jersey.
Teschmacher is horrified that Luthor doesn’t care that his mother lives in Hackensack. Luthor lets Superman die. Knowing that he always keeps his word, Teschmacher helps Superman on the condition that he first stop the eastbound missile. Freed, Superman diverts the missile east into space, preventing it from reaching the westbound missile before it explodes in the San Andreas Fault. Severe earthquakes occur in California, damaging the Golden Gate Bridge and breaching the Hoover Dam. Superman mitigates the effects of the explosion by sealing the rift. While Superman is busy saving others, Lois’s car falls into a crevasse caused by one of the aftershocks, trapping her as it fills with earth and debris. She suffocates before Superman can reach her. Furious that he failed to save her, Superman defies Jor-El’s warning not to manipulate human history and instead follows Jonathan’s advice that he must be there for “a reason.” He accelerates around Earth, reversing time to a point before Lois’s death, and also undoing the damage caused by the missile and the earthquake. After saving the West Coast, Superman delivers Luthor and Otis to the prison before flying off into the sunrise.