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Mark Hawley
Minister of the Sacraments of Jabootu
Canada
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 Posted - 03/03/2009 : 9:21:33 PM
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There's a great, and really frank interview with her over at The Onion A.V. Club where she discusses many of the films she's acted in over the years.
Of particular note is her comments on Superman IV and particularly how candid she is about Christopher Reeve. I remember when the Superman DVD box set was about to be released and it was announced that the fourth film had a commentary with one of the writers, I believe, Ken, on his blog, wondered whether the writer would have anything bad to say about Christopher Reeve... well ol' Margot certainly does.
Here's an excerpt:
"MK: Oh, God! [Laughs.] What a dreadful piece of crap.
AVC: You must have been a little relieved that the Salkinds weren’t in charge anymore, and Golan-Globus had taken over the franchise.
MK: I was, and I actually loved Menahem Golan, who was outrageous! I don’t even know if he’s still alive. Is he? A wild, outrageous human being, who’s sort of irresistible. [Laughs.] I think he’s probably a crook. I mean, he’s all sorts of things. But he was just bigger than life. But the movie was not good, and Chris [Reeve] was really full of himself because he’d written part of it, and thought it was going to be a hit. So Chris and I were really bickering on that one. I was yelling things like, “Don’t tell me how to act!”
AVC: I guess the idea was, to get Reeve back, they had to give him a bigger role behind the scenes.
MK: Yeah but once it was a flop, Chris pretended he hadn’t written it.
AVC: It had a very heavy-handed sort of anti—
MK: It certainly did. It was a bad one.
AVC: Quest For Peace was so much cheaper than the other movies. At what point did you realize, “Okay, this isn’t what I signed up for”?
MK: Well you realized it when you read that dreadful script, for starters. So you got paid, and you went and did it. I don’t regret it. I usually have fun in bad situations, because things make me laugh that don’t make other people laugh. I’m a little bit sick. So it was probably another one—you know, you were in London. You were getting paid enormous sums of money. What’s to complain about?"
Here's the link:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/random-roles-margot-kidder,24554/1/
Her comments about the Superman films are on the second page. She also has some funny things to say about Amityville Horror.
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Enda80
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/08/2009 : 08:49:33 AM
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A comment on Mr. Begg's review:
“The answer to all concerns, in the short run anyway, proved to be Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Warner Brothers, the production company for the prior films, farmed out the job to the cheesemeisters extraordinaire over at Cannon Films. With their history of churning out cheapo but financially successful flicks, Warners undoubtedly believed that Cannon could shoot the film more economically. Which they did, to Warners’ eventual ire, since they were later suspected of diverting part the production budget Warners provided to other projects.”
Had Warner Bros. had its way, they probably would have made Superman IV by themselves and with a large budget. Superman III was not as huge a flop as people remember. The real problem came with Warner’s friction with the Salkinds.
Actually, the Salkinds sold the temporary rights to make Superman films to Cannon. The Salkinds were the producers of the previous films. They had bought the rights to Superman for 25 years in the 1970’s, either before Warner Bros. realized the full corollaries of their ownership of DC Comics, or before they realized the box office potential of the property, in those pre-Star Wars days. When Christopher Reeve, after Superman III, bowed out of the series to pursue other, more challenging roles, the Salkinds made Supergirl. Warner Bros., annoyed to some degree that control of a property that should have represented some of their goodwill from acquiring DC, initially supported Supergirl, but then backpedaled on releasing the film. Supergirl underperformed.
The Salkinds decided that they did not want to deal with Warner Bros. anymore, so they sold the temporary rights to Cannon. Warner Bros. could not do anything, since the Salkinds had a contract giving them 25 years of control.
The Salkinds's association with Superman did not end with Superman IV. They later produced a Superboy TV show. As Jake Rossen noted in a recent making of book, Warner Bros. ordered DC Comics not to provide the Salkinds the use of any other DC property, and caused other complications for the series. Annoyed and flustered, the Salkinds sold the rights to the Kryptonian frachise to Warner Bros. |
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Enda80
Preeminent Apostolic Prelate of the Discipleship of Jabootu
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Posted - 03/08/2009 : 08:52:08 AM
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| Does anyone notice the similarity between Superman IV and some of the later Godzilla films? Notice Godzilla's unveiling hereto unheard of powers in vs. The Cosmic Monster and Godzilla facing opponents created from his genetic material (e.g. Biollante)? |
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