The superhero movie genre has never been as popular as it is today, but both Marvel Studios and DC Films continue to use Richard Donner’s Superman: The Movie as an example to strive towards.
Superman: The Movie is still to this day the archetype of the perfect superhero film origin story and we watch it before we make almost any one of our films, and that’s been the case for the past seventeen years since I left the fold to go work for Marvel.
Released back in 1978, director Richard Donner delivered an origin story for Superman that has so far gone unmatched.
DC meanwhile has also pulled from Superman, with the most recent release of Wonder Woman being a shining example of that.