Superman IIcombined director Richard Donner""s 1977 footage with Richard Lester""s 1979 footage.Approximately 25-30% of Lester""sSuperman IIwas Donner""s footage.Superman III (1983)d.Richard Lester, 125 minutes (TV version: 141 minutes)Film Plot SummaryThe film opened in Metropolis"" Unemployment Bureau, where a shiftless black man in his early 30s, August "Gus" Gorman (Richard Pryor), stood in line while playing with a yo-yo.Ultimately, all were destroyed when the machines broke through: "It wasn""t a battle.It was a slaughter."The film ended with a cliffhanger: unconscious Neo was lying, in a mirror image (seen from top view), across from he "only one" who had survived the massacre at Zion - Bane/Agent Smith." He was told they were seeking "the knowledge of Earth""s ultimate fate recorded on tapes in the archives of the forbidden city -- which is contaminated but still may be inhabited by humans.It was votedthe #1 British Film of the 20th Centuryby the esteemed British Film Institute (BFI).It was co-produced by Hungarian-born Alexander Korda and American movie mogul David O.Selznick.Because Korda gave American distribution rights to Selznick (who cut eleven minutes from the original British version), the credits of the US version include Selznick references.A driver in lane ""A"" may crash while a driver in lane ""B"" survives.It follows that a driver, by changing lanes can change his future...In the dark and turbulent corridors of outer space, the impact of some distant planetary, even galactic disaster, jumped the apes from their present into ours.