 Hundreds of miles away from Smallville sits Hollywood, and it may be a far more threatening metropolis than the Man of Steel is used to. Superman vs. Hollywood (Chicago Review Press, 2008) is a no-holds-barred account of the Last Son of Krypton's Hollywood escapades, from his 1940 radio debut—which helped foil the Ku Klux Klan—to the 2006 Bryan Singer film. In between, filmmakers have endured everything from knife attacks to toxic gas to lawsuits in their efforts to adapt comicdom’s most iconic hero. (Lex Luthor, it appears, has nothing on lawyers.)
In this exclusive excerpt, author Jake Rossen examines the aftermath of 1978’s groundbreaking “Superman: The Movie,” a tumultuous production that saw director Richard Donner and producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind butting heads and trading insults. The result drastically affected the completion of “Superman II,” which was filmed in part simultaneously…
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