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While plans for a fifth Lethal Weapon were in limbo following the franchise director Richard Donner's passing, it looks like the torch has been officially passed courtesy of his widow Lauren Shuler Donner, who's given her blessing to star Mel Gibson, according to The Guardian undergoing final talks to helm the Warner Bros film[...]

The now-retired actor worked with the late director Richard Donner, who died at the age of 91, on the original 1978 film and the sequel he originally leads before he left over creative differences before Richard Lester took over that featured Terrence Stamp's General Zod as the main villain Hackman shared a memory of Donner[...]

As predictable and formulaic superhero films are today, none of it would have been possible without Superman director Richard Donner, who passed at the age of 91 While the late director wasn't the first to put a superhero let alone, the Man of Steel, up on the big screen, the template he left behind in[...]

Now DC Comics is to publish two new digital-first series in July, based on the Tim Burton Batman and Richard Donner Superman movies. Batman '89 from DC i  by Sam Hamm and Joe Quinones – Sam Hamm co-wrote that screenplay for Tim Burton and later write the Batman: Blind Justice comic book. Superman '78 is by Rob Venditti[...]

While the modern-day superhero boom owes a lot to the 1-2-3 punch of Blade, X-Men, and Spider-Man, those movies wouldn't have ever made it to the big screen if it wasn't for 1978's Superman. Richard Donner showed the world that a man could fly, and we've never looked back For Donner, in a recent interview with The[...]

However, in the 1970s, when Richard Donner was directing the first Superman movie, you had to work a lot harder to get someone that death threat Donner recently did an extensive interview with The Telegraph, and one thing he talked about was getting death threats for the religious allegory in Superman. Then there were the death[...]

mainly he lets us know that is it fact real, and that Richard Donner is in Way back in January, which seems like three years ago at this point, news leaked out that a fifth Lethal Weapon film was being bandied about Gibson and Danny Glover would be returning to their roles as Roger Murtaugh[...]

The 1985 Richard Donner classic will come out in a special box set edition as well as a single release The box set will include a map, a patch, buttons, and will come housed in a treasure chest box The release will include a 4K disc and a regular Blu-ray, along with a digital code[...]

He watched them all, but his favorite remains the 1978 Richard Donner original The actor had an opportunity to play a role in a live-action setting screen testing for Superman Returns (2006) before the part went to Brandon Routh O'Connell's first exposure to voiceover work in the realm of Warner Bros animation for DC was[...]

In discussing revisiting franchises, it matters not "if" Hollywood revisits rather "when." Dan Lin (Two Popes) revealed the development of a fifth Lethal Weapon film with original stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover returning to star along with director Richard Donner during a Producers Roundtable for The Hollywood Reporter. Warner Bros "We're trying to make the last[...]

If Watchmen was intended as a last word on superheroes, Doomsday Clock is all about why superheroes have longevity, and specifically, the original superhero that would embody all the tropes that would one day be common, Superman. Geoff Johns, its writer, worked in Los Angeles, as a production assistant alongside Superman movie director Richard Donner in[...]

Kevin Hart will be asking fans "to put a little love in their heart" as he'll be developing and starring in Paramount's remake of Scrooged, the 1988 modernized take on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol that starred Bill Murray and directed by Richard Donner. Actor Kevin Hart – Photo by Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com Hart will be producing[...]

It's a bird, it's a plane, IT'S RICHARD DONNER'S 1978 SUPERMAN finally being released on 4K! We've been waiting FOREVER to see Christopher Reeve's friend from another star in 4K, and it's finally happening this year. The 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc of Superman will feature Dolby VisionTM HDR, which expands the color palette and contrast range by uses dynamic[...]

We both enjoyed the Geoff Johns, Richard Donner, and Olivier Coipel story with the infamous car from the cover to the original Action Comics #1. In any case, despite the lateness of this particular podcast, I hope you enjoy this discussion of Superman and Action Comics #1000 We certainly enjoyed making it, and my co-hosts were an absolute joy to work with[...]

I will say that my personal favorites from the release have to be "The Car" from Geoff Johns, Richard Donner, Olivier Coipel, Alejandro Sanchez, and Nick Napolitano and "Faster Than a Speeding Bullet" by Brad Meltzer, John Cassaday,  Laura Martin, and Chris Eliopoulos, with the one that did the least for me being "Actionland" by[...]

In the nineties, Kevin Feige was an assistant to executive producer Lauren Shuler Donner on movies such as Volcano and You've Got Mail, and got to know her husband Richard Donner well. He also got to know Geoff Johns, who was working as an intern to Richard Donner, then a production assistant on films such as Conspiracy Theory[...]

Personally, we wish that people would stop giving credence to these ridiculous rumors and accept that not everything has to be about how one company is better than the other, and it would probably help if the media stopped sensationalizing every time someone from one of the two companies mentions the other. But it's hard to[...]

Taking a look at this new trailer for Damien, we see that this is an extension of the original Richard Donner film from 1976 and some clips from the film are included. The new series follows the adult life of Damien Thorn, the mysterious child from the 1976 horror film, The Omen, who has grown up[...]

It's not very good. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWNqbqcV4dU[/youtube] But with today's Superman #35, writer Geoff Johns, who worked as Superman movie director/producer Richard Donner's assistant, seems to be trying to rectify some of the themes in that movie, giving them a different context and presenting a very different solution, courtesy of Superman-alike Ulysses. So in today' issue, Ulysses not only becomes aware[...]

By Jared Cornelius   Welcome back to Valiant Effort, my look at the Valiant Comics universe.  The rules are simple, it's like Thunderdome, "two men enter", "one man leaves."  I'm kidding, it's not like that at all.  I take one of the current Valiant Comics series, and recommend you read it based on other pieces of media you might[...]

We reported that venture capitalist Timothy Draper had paid $25,000 for Jim Lee to paint his wall, for the We Can Be Heroes Indigogo campaign. With hours to go, the second big ticket item, lunch with Geoff Johns and Richard Donner for $8,500 also was snapped up and the total is over $118,000. We'll fly you and[...]

Tonight in Los Angeles, there's a gala to celebrate the work of Geoff Johns by the great and the good. And in this week's final Green Lantern issue from

Superman:  The Last Son Of Krypton #1, the first chapter of the now-collected comic by director Richard Donner and Geoff Johns and drawn by Andy Kubert, with Superman fighting General Zod and the villains of the Phantom Zone. But it will also contain a preview of Scott Snyder and Jim Lee's new Superman series, now officially confirmed[...]

Another, Richard Donner has died Mazel tov and rest in peace, members of the extended Superman family [People] All well and good, and congratulations to Henry Cavill, but Richard Donner, director of the first Superman film, and bits of the second, is anything but dead. Just thought it was worth pointing out. In a one liner,  Gawker[...]