Clark meets her fiancé Richard White, nephew of Daily Planet editor-in-chief Perry White, and their son Jason. The world rejoices in Superman's return, but Lois is more concerned with the blackout. Clark flies into action as Superman and stops the plane from crashing into a baseball field. The growing crystal causes a blackout, affecting the take off of a space shuttle-like vehicle tethered to a Boeing 777, which Lois Lane is aboard, covering the story. Luthor returns to Metropolis and experiments with a tiny fragment in a pool which grows to immense size. During Superman's absence, Lex Luthor has been released from prison, conned a rich widow into a sham wedding to get his hands on her money, and stolen Kryptonian crystals from the Fortress of Solitude.

He returns to work as Clark Kent at The Daily Planet in Metropolis, where he learns Lois Lane is now a mother and has won the Pulitzer Prize for her article 'Why the World Doesn't Need Superman'. He returns to Earth with his spacecraft crashing back into his adoptive mother's crop field, and awakes the next morning reminiscing of his childhood. Opening titles reveal Superman has been missing for five years after astronomers discovered the remains of Krypton.

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4 References to the Christopher Reeve films.

Marlon Brando's role as Superman's biological father Jor-El is reprised with the help of computer-generated imagery and earlier footage. Director Bryan Singer has said that the continuity is 'taking off from the first two Superman films with Christopher Reeve', which serve as its back-story, or as he put it, a 'vague history'. Superman's nemesis, arch-villain Lex Luthor has devised a new plan to defeat Superman. He re-assumes his secret identity of Clark Kent, and discovers that Lois Lane-now in a 'prolonged engagement'-has a five-year-old son.

The film revolves around Superman's return to Earth after a five-year absence. The film received mostly positive critical reviews and grossed over $391 million worldwide. It was the first theatrical Superman film since 1987's Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. The screenplay was written by Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris, based on a story by Bryan Singer, Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty.įilming began in February 2005, and the movie was released in the United States on Jafter sixteen months of filming and production. It was directed by Bryan Singer and stars Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey. Superman Returns is a 2006 film based on Superman of DC Comics.

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