Superman (1978 film) finish writing duties. George MacDonald Fraser was later hired to do some work on the script, but he says he did little. Their script was submitted in July 1976, and carried a camp tone, including a cameo appearance by Telly Savalas as his "Kojak" character. The scripts for "Superman" and "Superman II" were now at over 400 pages combined. Pre-production started at Cinecittà Studios in Rome, with sets starting construction and flying tests being unsuccessfully experimented. "In Italy," producer Ilya Salkind remembered, "we lost about $2 million [on flying tests]." Marlon Brando found out he could not film in Italy
Superman in film adaptation of the "Flyby" screenplay. Following the departure of Ratner and McG, Bryan Singer, who was said to be a childhood fan of Richard Donner's film, was approached by Warner Bros. He accepted, abandoning two films already in pre-production, "" (which, coincidentally, would come to be directed by Ratner) and a remake of "Logan's Run". The film uses the events of "Superman" and, to less of a degree, "Superman II" as backstory, while completely ignoring the events of "Superman III" and "". Singer's story tells of Superman's return to Earth following a five-year search for survivors of Krypton. He discovers