In July 2021, actor Jack O'Halloran, who played Kryptonian villain Non in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980), revealed that Superman didn't kill him, Zod and Ursa at the end of the film. He told Yahoo Entertainment that director Richard Donner filmed an extra scene that confirmed all three villains survived and were carted off to a terrestrial prison instead of the Phantom Zone. But that scene was cut from both the theatrical version, which was completed by Richard Lester after Donner departed the film under acrimonious circumstances, as well as Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980), the version of the movie that reconstituted his original vision. He also added that he regrets that some viewers have spent 40 years believing that Superman killed his fellow Kryptonians, and took a pointed dig at L'uomo d'acciaio (2013) for further perpetuating that impression. "The beauty of Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980) is the fact that Superman wasn't flying around killing villains. He was putting them in jail; there was an American way of law and order about it. That's what's wrong with the movies they did afterwards: they got darker and darker and darker. Those first two films still stand up all these years later, you know?"

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