Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut is a 2006 re-edited director's cut of the 1980 superhero film Superman II, a sequel to Richard Donner's 1978 film Superman: The Movie, based on the DC Comics superhero of the same name. It stars Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve, and Marlon Brando and was edited by Michael Thau and overseen and completed by Donner himself. It features a significant amount of discarded footage, alternative takes, and story elements not featured in the theatrical version.