Tom Mankiewicz (hired to direct Mario Puzo's original Indian version of the "Superman" script, and adapted it into the "Superman Sequel" script. Mankiewicz removed most of the Puzo-style vulgarity and added relevant religious hints as requested by the producer, but he was later fired and replaced by Dick Lester (.
Dick Lester had a great disagreement with the epic video style established by Richard D. Schwartzberg in the first episode of "Superman" and decided to do what he wanted. At that time, Donner’s photographerhad just passed away, so Lester planned to scrap most of the films taken byand invited Robert Painter to take the shot. , Set the image style of the film to comic book style, and even deliberately create a sense of plane. Movies often use 3 cameras to shoot at the same time, two are used to shoot close-ups, and the remaining one is used to shoot distant scenes. Actors often express dissatisfaction with this shooting method because they don’t know when they are shooting close-ups, and the camera cannot capture them. The actors are at their best. Margot Kidd, who plays Lois Lane in the film, especially dislikes Leicester's approach. In addition, the screen tone of the film is also designed in accordance with the comic book style.
At that time, digital technology had not yet come out, so the crew had to use miniature models to create large-scale scenes. Among them, the Golden Gate Bridge model was 70 feet long and 20 feet high, which was the best model in the film. In order to shoot real and believable Superman flying pictures, the crew first tried to use a cannon to launch a dummy, then made a flying Superman model, and thought of using high-quality animation. After abandoning the first three methods, the crew decided to use a front projection effect and a special zoom lens to create a flying effect.
The metropolis scene in the film was shot in New York, where the "Planet Daily" was actually the "New York Daily News" newspaper. Richard D. Schwartzberg had a strained relationship with producers Ilya, Alexander, and Spengler due to budget overruns and delayed cycles. According to Mankiewicz, Downer had always been ignorant of budgets and filming cycles. In order to alleviate the conflict between the director and the producer, Dick Lester gave an order to mediate the relationship between the two parties as a producer.
