Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige and DC Films' Geoff Johns are supposed to be rivals, but the respective comic book movie producers each started their careers as interns at the production company of filmmaker Richard Donner. Feige and Johns appeared together Wednesday night to salute Donner at an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ tribute to the Lethal Weapon and Goonies director.
Feige and Johns united onstage to share their memories of Donner, with Feige singling out Donner's 1978 film Superman: The Movie for its excellence and significance to not only his career, but to Marvel Studios as well.
"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," Feige said, "and that's been the case for the past seventeen years since I left the fold to go work for Marvel."
Feige's first Marvel credit was as an associate producer on 2000's X-Men, which Donner exec produced and Donner's wife, Lauren Shuler Donner, produced.
Johns recalled Donner's anecdote of hating the first draft of the screenplay for Superman: The Movie and declaring, " I have to save Superman." Johns went on to call Superman "the greatest superhero film still, ever."
Richard Donner, now 87, has retired from filmmaking, having directed his final film, 16 Blocks, in 2006. In addition to Superman, the Lethal Weapon movies, and The Goonies, Donner's other directing credits include The Omen, Ladyhawke, Maverick, and Scrooged.
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