Random Movie Trivia - Superman 2

Here is the next edition in our weekly Random Movie Trivia post.  Enjoy:

Superman 2

• Both Superman and Superman 2 were shot at the same time, but an argument broke out between the original director Richard Donner and the producers over the material.  So, even though 80 percent of the sequel was finished filming, the new director, Richard Lester, came in and re-filmed the majority of the film so that he could get credit for directing the movie (there is a weird rule that you have to have directed over 50 percent of a movie in order to put your name in the credits).  In fact, there is a copy of Donner's cut of Superman 2 available somewhere.
• Because Richard Donner didn't come back to finish the movie, Gene Hackman refused to film any new scenes and therefore all scenes with Lex Luthor in them are from Richard Donner's original cut.  For any new scenes needed for Hackman were done with a look-alike.
• The actor who played Non (the other bad guy who wasn't General Zod), Jack O'Halloran, is the real-life son of Albert Anastasia, the guy who The Godfather was based on.   Albert Anastasia was the head of the notorious Murder, Inc.  Also, the scene in The Godfather where they put a horse's head in a guy's bed is true except it wasn't a horse's head, but actually the horse's balls and they put it under the guy's pillow.  And to make things even stranger, Marlon Brando, aka The Godfather, plays Superman's father in the movie.
• During a confrontation offset, Jack O'Halloran picked up Christopher Reeve by his throat after Reeves opened his mouth about O"Halloran's family at a local bar owned by Jack's friend.  When the director saw this, he didn't try to stop it, he just yelled, "Jack, don't hit him in the face!"
• Jack O'Halloran passed up the part of Jaws in the James Bond movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, to be in the Superman movies.
• All of the scenes shot for the Eiffel Tower terrorist attack in Paris were done so without the permission of the French.
• Christopher Reeve's physique changed so much between the original cut of the movie and the re-shoots for the new director, that you can notice his difference in size at random times throughout the movie.

"Yeah, I still didn't know this was one of Superman's powers either and neither did anyone else."