MovieWeb recently caught up with Richard Donner while he was out promoting the 25th anniversary of The Goonies, which will debut on Blu-ray November 2nd. The director spoke about his disinterest in continuing to make films with the current Hollywood studio system, and that at this point in his career he only wants to focus on projects that he is passionate about and can produce independently.

Due to his close association to the Superman franchise, MovieWeb asked Donner about his thoughts on the new Superman film and the director Zack Snyder:

"Well, I think he could do a great job. You know he's certainly a good director and hopefully he's got a good handle on it. I mean, I thought Bryan (Singer) did a wonderful job with the other film (Superman Returns). You could just do massive action and blow up stuff, but he chose to do the characters more, although he had some beautiful stuff in there. So I hope nobody tries to compete. I hope Zack doesn't try to compete and I don't think he's that kind of director. I don't think he's going to want to compete with the best effects out there. I'm tired of it already. I'm tired of those... what are those machines? Transformers! Really, I mean they were great but lets settle back people and focus on the characters. The characters in Superman are just wonderful."

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