"Has Warner Pictures' "Superman" officially been officially scheduled? Can't you receive any news?" Ye Jin asked Damian Carret, the distribution manager, to inquire.

Damian shook his head, "To be honest, it's really strange. Generally speaking, movies to be released during the summer season should be scheduled one month in advance, but for some reason, Warner Pictures has been reluctant to announce the schedule, which is really unusual."

In America, movies are usually scheduled one month before official release. This is conducive to the promotion of the movie and lets fans know when it will be released.

Some big-time movies have been finalized for the schedule half a year or a year in advance, which is equivalent to defining the [sphere of influence] in advance. If other blockbusters do not want to be in a schedule, they can only change the schedule.

Therefore, "Superman" has been delayed and has almost become an exception, which is very rare.

"Isn't it going to be released in the summer season?" Ye Jin asked in confusion, "That's impossible."

Warner Pictures had already spoken out to the public three months ago that it would launch "Superman" in the summer season. This should be a foregone conclusion and could not be changed at will.

"Unless there is a problem with the production of "Superman"." Ye Jin suddenly said with his eyes.

The movie that was originally confirmed to be released suddenly announced that it would be withdrawn. The most likely reason is that there were problems during the film production process, which made it impossible to be released as scheduled.

The "Superman" series is filmed at the same time as one and two episodes, which increases the difficulty of shooting, and it is very likely that problems will occur.

"Damian, send someone to check if there is something wrong with the production of "Superman"." Thinking of this, Ye Jin immediately ordered Damian to do so.

Damian nodded and immediately sent someone to the English Pinewood Studios to investigate the shooting of the "Superman" movie.

...

Three days later, the spy rewarded.

After reading the report, Ye Jin laughed and the situation was as expected.

The filming of "Superman" was seriously problematic, and director Richard Donner was fired by producer Elia Salkind and replaced by another director, Richard Lester.

The reason why Richard Donner was fired was that producer Salkind believed that he had too high requirements for the quality of the film, and a $55 million investment may not be able to finish two "Superman" movies.

Therefore, when "Superman 1" was about to be completed and "Superman 2" had one-fifth of the scenes left, Salkind fired Richard Donner and replaced him with Richard Lester.

Originally, Salkind thought that "Superman 1" was only a little short of the drama, and after Richard Lester took over, the filming would be completed immediately. At that time, it will be released normally and there will be no delays.

But what he didn't expect was that Richard Donner had too high prestige in the crew. After he was suddenly fired, everyone in the crew was in a bad mood and had a fierce conflict with the new director Richard Lester, which once caused the crew to stop work.

Because the crew of "Superman" is far away in England, and the crew deliberately controls public opinion, these scandals have not spread.

But covering up cannot change the facts. The crew members still cannot get along with the new director and have frequent conflicts. What's more troublesome is that Marlon Brando, who plays Superman's father, and Jim Hackman, who plays Lex Luther, was kicked out of the crew by the new director Richard Lester because he supported the old director Richard Donner.

After such a public relations, the bad influence of the "Superman" crew changing the director halfway through finally subsided.

...

However, Warner's words are only suitable for coaxing outsiders.

Ye Jin learned through internal industry news that in order to calm the storm, Warner did not hesitate to use the [confidentiality terms] in the contract, forcing all crew members to shut up, not accept interviews, and not disclose the crew situation to the public...
Chapter completed!