Under the credits, Krypton""s respected scientist Jor-El (Marlon Brando), fearing that Krypton would be destroyed by a collision with its sun, prepared a space capsule/rocket (with one green crystal) to bear his son Kal-El safely away, just before the planet exploded.Cochran""s plan was to air his commercial, advertised as the "big giveaway," at 9:00 pm Halloween night throughout the country, during a "Horror-a-thon" showing." She had become a "mommy," and had a son (out of wedlock) named Jason White (Tristan Lake Leabu), was in a "prolonged engagement" with Perry White""s nephew Richard White (James Marsden), and was touchy about questions of marriage.Later, she spoofed her own role inThe Man With Two Brains (1983).Kasdan had also contributed as co-screenwriter for wo of the biggest early 1980s films -Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)andRaiders of the Lost Ark (1981).