SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE opens. Screenplay by Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman and Robert Benton. Based on the comic creation by Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster. Powered by John William's heraldic theme & Christopher Reeve's charismatic performance, director Richard Donner's man of steel adventure, some forty plus years later, occupies an enviably prominent place in the superhero movie canon. With Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Margot Kidder, Jackie Cooper Valerie Perrine and Jackie Cooper.