Revealing mistake: After Nuclear Man destroys the cab's hood, the shot changes and there's a thick string running behind him all along the car, and the cab driver is stretching out to pull it. Probably he was activating some sort of bad FX.
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Ending / spoiler
Directed by: Sidney J. Furie
Starring: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper, Marc McClure, Margot Kidder
Nuclear Man takes Lacy into space. Superman then moves the moon in front of the Sun and causes Nuclear Man to become powerless. Superman takes Lacy back to Earth and then takes Nuclear Man and puts him in a nuclear reactor, killing him. Superman says that if people want peace bad enough, the governments of the world will give it to them. Superman then sends Lenny to a boys reform schools and sent Lex back to the labor camp.
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More mistakes in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Lex Luthor: Lenny, I've always considered you the Dutch Elm disease in my family tree.
Trivia: Near the end of the film, Superman gives a press conference in front of a bluish mirror-glass building which is meant to be the Daily Planet skyscraper in Metropolis (which we all know is New York, sort of). The shot is framed so you can only see the bottom of the building - necessary as it is only about 3 floors high, and is in fact the railway station in Milton keynes, England, about 400 yards from where I work. Even the crowd have a vaguely British look about them - presumably passers-by were recruited and stood there in their own clothes (this would matter less now - Brits look more American than they did in the Eighties).
Question: I read that, according to Margot Kidder, when working on this movie, Christopher Reeve and Sidney J. Furie didn't get along at all. Is this true? If it is true, then what was the reason behind their feud in the first place?
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Answer: There appears to be multiple reasons. They had creative differences, ultimately resulting in a poorly received movie. Kidder said Reeves, who co-wrote the story, had an inflated ego and clashed with Furie.
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