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Skip to main content Currently Reading Remembering Richard Donner: With Superman and the Lethal Weapon Films, He Made the Blockbuster Era Both Bigger and Smaller Owen Gleiberman, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail There’s no denying that Richard Donner, who died Monday at 91, was one of the most influential architects of the blockbuster era. He directed “Superman,” the 1978 man-of-steel epic that invented the comic-book movie as we know it. He directed all four films in the “Lethal Weapon” series, which may be the quintessential incarnation of the joshingly abrasive, throwaway buddy-cop movie. He directed “The Omen,” the 1976 Satan-is-alive-and-he’s-a-scowling-schoolboy horror film that ruled the box office and spooked a generation of moviegoers’ imaginations.

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