Richard Lester Overview:

Director, Richard Lester, was born on Jan 19, 1932 in Philadelphia, PA. As of December 2023, Richard Lester was 92 years old.

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The Three Musketeers (1973, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 7, 2019 From The Stop Button

The Three Musketeers is so much fun, you barely notice when the film takes a turn in the last thirty or so minutes. The Musketeers are on a mission?they?ve got to deliver a letter to England to save at least one lady?s honor, possibly two?and just as the film reunites them all with the promise of ac... Read full article


The Three Musketeers (1973, )

By Andrew Wickliffe on Sep 7, 2019 From The Stop Button

The Three Musketeers is so much fun, you barely notice when the film takes a turn in the last thirty or so minutes. The Musketeers are on a mission?they?ve got to deliver a letter to England to save at least one lady?s honor, possibly two?and just as the film reunites them all with the promise of ac... Read full article


The Three Musketeers (1973, )

on Sep 7, 2019 From The Stop Button

The Three Musketeers is so much fun, you barely notice when the film takes a turn in the last thirty or so minutes. The Musketeers are on a mission?they?ve got to deliver a letter to England to save at least one lady?s honor, possibly two?and just as the film reunites them all with the promise of ac... Read full article


The Three Musketeers (1973, )

on Sep 7, 2019 From The Stop Button

The Three Musketeers is so much fun, you barely notice when the film takes a turn in the last thirty or so minutes. The Musketeers are on a mission?they?ve got to deliver a letter to England to save at least one lady?s honor, possibly two?and just as the film reunites them all with the promise of ac... Read full article


Superman III (1983, )

on Oct 8, 2010 From The Stop Button

Superman III–deservedly–gets a lot of flak, but it’s actually the most faithful to the comics in a lot of ways. It plays out like a late sixties, early seventies Superman comic–”The Man Who Killed Superman,” turning out to be a bumbling, generally well-meaning guy... Read full article


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While working on the parts of Superman (1978) that would be incorporated in the sequel Superman II (1980), cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth died unexpectedly on October 28, 1978. When Lester took over the directorial reins from Richard Donner, he decided to give the sequel a comic-book look rather than the stately, mythic look that Donner and Unsworth had crafted for the first movie, and intended for the sequel. He scrapped much of Unsworth's footage and hired British cameraman Robert Paynter, who had worked with potboiler director Michael Winner perfecting a style that complimented Winner's propensity for comic book-style violence. Lester was not sympathetic to the epic look that Donner had given the original "Superman" (1978), saying that he did not want to do "the David Lean thing". Lester decided on creating a comic book-style that would evoke Superman's roots in comic books. Lester deliberately wanted to break the stylistic "American epic" mold created by Donner and, with Paynter, set out to recreate the look and feel o

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 581-586. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

Ironically, he claimed to have never even heard of the Superman character before being hired to work on the films due to comic books not being allowed in his house as a child. This led to many fans and critics suspecting and in some cases accusing Lester of not understanding and therefore not respecting the Superman character, especially judging by the satirical tone and ultimate box office failure of Superman III (1983).

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