Donner's Superman 2

Superman II
The Richard Donner version

Scenes 287 - 307, "The Daily Planet", pt. 3

SERIES OF FLASH CUTS

287 INT. PLANET CITY ROOM - DAY

A subliminal blue blur jets through the City Room as papers fly from desks everywhere. (storyboard)[1]

REPORTER
Will somebody shut the window!

288 EXT. SIDE OF PLANET BUILDING - DAY

LOIS falls through the air. (storyboard)[2]

289 INT. PLANET STAIRWELL - DAY

A revolving blur shoots down the stairwell.

storyboard [3]

storyboard [4]

290 EXT. STREET - PLANET ENTRANCE - DAY

CLARK is almost instantly at the street entrance to the Daily Planet, looks up. (storyboard)[5]

291 BACK TO LOIS

LOIS hasn't far to go. (storyboard)[6]

292 BACK TO CLARK

CLARK inhales, blows up at her with his super-breath.

storyboard [7]

storyboard [8]

293 BACK TO LOIS

The gust of wind hits LOIS, breaking her fall, wafting her slightly upward like a leaf. (storyboard)[9]

294 BACK TO CLARK

CLARK looks over at the pastry shop directly under LOIS.

storyboard [10]

storyboard [11]

295 ANGLE ON PASTRY SHOP - CLARK'S POV

TWO DELIVERY MEN emerge from the pastry shop, under a closed awning, carrying an enormous wedding cake toward a waiting delivery van. (storyboard)[12]

296 BACK TO CLARK

CLARK smiles, turns on his X-ray vision. (storyboard)[13]

297 ANGLE ON STREET - CLARK'S POV

8	A stuntwoman for Margot Kidder performs the fall outside the Daily News Building in NYC.

The heat vision hits the closed metal awning apparatus. Popping it open. The awning unfurls over the DELIVERY MEN and wedding cake as LOIS hits the awning, bounces, rolls off the edge, missing the cake by a hair, falling heavily into the fruit pushcart. The PUSHCART MAN screams as fresh fruit, especially bananas, goes flying.

298 ANGLE ON SIDEWALK

Ripe bananas hit the pavement near the feet of the DELIVERY MEN, burst open.

299 CLOSE ON LOIS

LOIS, totally smeared and smothered in squishy fruit, looks up in shock.

300 ANGLE ON CLARK - LOIS' POV

CLARK sticks his head out of PERRY'S window, yells down, horrified.

CLARK
Lois! Oh, thank God!...

301 BACK TO LOIS

LOIS
Clark! Then you're not...

9	Director Richard Donner and Cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth participate in the creation of this scene.

Suddenly realizing the disastrous mistake she's made, LOIS faints away into the tomatoes.

302 ANGLE ON DELIVERY MEN

The DELIVERY MEN step forward, still holding the cake.

DELIVERY MAN
Lady? Are you all right? Lady?

303 ANGLE ON SIDEWALK

Their feet move ahead, just missing the ripe bananas.

PERRY'S VOICE (O.S.)
Seventy-five dollars per week? Do you have any idea what kind of salary I was making at your age?

304 ANGLE ON JIMMY AND PERRY

PERRY talks to JIMMY, irritated, as they approach CAMERA. JIMMY looks ahead, sees the bananas, points.

JIMMY
Watch out for the banana, Chief...

PERRY
And don't call me Chief! Olsen, you really take the cake, you know that?

PERRY steps on the banana, goes skidding and flying into the DELIVERY MEN, flipping the enormous cake up into the air.

305 ANGLE ON LOIS

LOIS opens her eyes, starts to get up, is suddenly hit by what seems like half a ton of cake.

306 ANGLE DOWN ON STREET - CLARK'S POV

The scene on the street from PERRY'S office window: PERRY and the DELIVERY MEN flat on their back, the pushcart inundated by the mountain of cake, the PUSHCART MAN screaming hysterically, POLICE arriving, JIMMY trying to help a furious PERRY to his feet, and LOIS starting to rise up again through the mountain of cake as a traffic jam begins to form.

307 INT. PERRY'S OFFICE - DAY

CLARK looks down from PERRY'S window, the yelling, honking and screaming clearly audible from below. CLARK smiles, closes the window. Another REPORTER appears in the office doorway.

REPORTER
Hey, Clark. You seen Lois around?

CLARK
She... just stepped out for a minute.

Sources:
1 thru 13 - Superman the Movie DVD/DVD-Rom, 2001 Warner Home Video.
8, 9 - image source unknown; scan courtesy of Superman CINEMA.

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