Gene Hackman’s Lex Luthor COULD have been an erratic Kleenex-eating, mustache-wearing, Nazi-hiring supervillain if they followed the original Puzo-Benton-Newman script! We continue our deep dive into Superman 1978 by tackling the Metropolis scenes and how the script had a longer, more expensive sequence on Superman’s first night out, as well as how Hackman was TRICKED into shaving his mustache to play Lex.

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