There are at least three that I'm aware of.
Theatrical and director's.
However there was one on the movie channel Encore that also featured scenes not in the theatre.
Like when we first see Krypton, the criminal trio takes out a guard and then they are captured and on trial by Jor-El.
Does anyone know where that version exists and if it has other included scenes besides the director's version?
Like when we first see Krypton, the criminal trio takes out a guard and then they are captured and on trial by Jor-El.
Does anyone know where that version exists and if it has other included scenes besides the director's version?
There was a version I saw around 2000-ish or so on an independent, local station, where they'd left out the entire destruction-of-Krypton section and went directly from (a different version of) the opening credits to the part where Kal-El's ship flew in over Ma and Pa Kent's pickup and crashed nearby. It had a narrator speaking over this part of it, describing the significance of the events (i.e. telling us this was Ma and Pa Kent). It also started out with a sequence I don't think I'd ever seen before, of a little boy reading a vintage Superman comic, with the narrator mentioning how big a thing the Superman story was to our culture.
A couple of years later I came in in the middle of another version while channel surfing, before tuning away to something else, right about at the ship-crashing scene. When they got to the part where toddler Kal-El crawled up out of the crater his ship left, they'd apparently replaced it with B-roll footage that showed him stooped over so you were looking at the naked tyke along has back and over his butt, rather than the scene they'd had for decades of him seen from the front. I guess some busybody somewhere decided the old version of that scene was now somehow improper or something, even though it was always cute and innocent before and was shown that way on regular, network TV for decades. oO
Anyone know which versions of the movie these were? Or are these from yet more other versions floating around out there?
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The theatrical release is 143 min, Special Edition is 154 min. Some great details on the TV versions and the 188-min Extended Cut of Superman: The Movie at the link below:
"Superman The Movie was released on 15th December 1978 in America. Richard Donner's initial cut ran just over three hours (this is confirmed by a 1981-82 issue of Starlog Magazine), and it was possibly the version John Williams recorded his legendary score to.
When the TV rights to "Superman" reverted from Warner Bros. to Alexander Salkind in 1981, the door was open for the Salkind company to create a version for television unlike what the public saw in theatres. Salkind prepared a 3 hour, 8 minute version (which we'll call the "Salkind International Extended Cut") for worldwide television release, with 45 minutes of unseen footage and additional music by John Williams, all of which was deleted from the 1978 theatrical version. Stations and networks around the world could then re-edit this version at their discretion.
https://thepiratebay.bid/torrent/4532118/Superman_3_Hour_Salkind_International_Cut
There is a blu-ray of the extended TV version (released within the last year or so, I think), but thankfully in 2.35:1 aspect ration instead of 4:3.
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