Margot Kidder Slates The New Superman Movies

Margot Kidder isn’t the least bit impressed with the new incarnation of Superman.

In an interview with Hey U Guys, while appearing at the Showmaster’s Film & Comic Con in Glasgow, the actress who played Lois Lane in the original four movies was asked why fans tend to return to Richard Donner’s classic original, over the more recent efforts from Zack Snyder and Bryan Singer.

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“They always go back because that film was better written and directed,” she said.

“They go back to them because they were so much truer to the comic books. Kids learn the morality tale of Jesus in a way; a guy away from his dad, floundering around on Earth and is this purely good person.

“Superman responds to women by saving them, saves the children and beats up the bad guys, if you will.

“In that sense, it’s so much simpler than the later films made it out to be. I think there was a cynical decision on the part of the studios, which are now owned by multi-national conglomerates just like everything else on the planet.

“So they would make these artistic decisions by non-artists – guys would want to hit the millennial demographic because they literally make up about one quarter of the population.

“Probably, my guess is what happened is when they decided to hit the demographic of the millennials in the later films. I think the directors were good, the actors were good but the basic approach wasn’t there.”

And she’s also not impressed with the new iteration of her character Lois Lane, played now by Amy Adams.

“They took one of the best American actresses around, Amy Adams, and didn’t give her anything to do!” she said.

“I mean, how stupid is that? They made her what used to be the girlfriend, which kind of ended in the 60s with women’s rights.”

However, she did admit that the fourth movie, ‘Superman IV: The Quest For Peace’, was pretty terrible.

“It was not a very good movie,” she said.

“The theme of it appealed to me but the writing was not good – it didn’t work. Since we done three and it was years later it wasn’t exciting – I didn’t think it was going to be a big hit. I had a good time making it but it didn’t mean the same as the first two.”

Amen to that.

Image credits: Everett Collection/Rex Features