Steven Spielberg, who worked on The Goonies with Donner, wrote on Twitter, “Dick had such a powerful command of his movies, and was so gifted across so many genres. Tributes to Donner flooded social media in the wake of his death. Donner is survived by his wife, Lauren Shuler Donner.
Donner also had a hand in producing X-Men and its prequel, X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In the next decade, Donner directed the Free Willy trilogy in addition to 1995’s Assassins.
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Donner’s success continued in the ’80s, which saw him direct the beloved children’s movie The Goonies as well as the first Lethal Weapon film, which proved such a success that it launched a franchise. He then directed Superman in 1978, which catapulted a then-unknown Christopher Reeve to stardom and was the most expensive film ever made up to that point. Donner’s big-screen break came in 1976 with the hit horror film The Omen. confirmed his death, though no cause was disclosed.ĭonner’s genre-spanning career began in television directing, helming installments of The Fugitive, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and the iconic Twilight Zone episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” starring William Shatner. Richard Donner, the prolific director and producer behind the original Superman and Lethal Weapon films, has died at the age of 91.
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