On this date 40 years ago, director Richard Donner, stars Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder and many more were in the thick of two days of filming Superman at the New York Daily News offices. The Warner Bros. movie would be released the following year to great acclaim.
As part of the paper’s ongoing Flashback series, the News has republished online a pair of articles that ran in the July 8, 1977 edition. The first, by editor in chief Pete Hamill, was headlined “Look! It’s a Bird!… It’s a Plane!… It’s Supergoy!” Hamill’s piece is full of great sideline detail, like the vendor of a newspaper called The Daily Planet who talks about the cease-and-desist letter he received from Warner Bros.
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