Jon Cryer dishes 'Superman 4' anecdotes on 'Howard Stern'

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3. He had the unfortunate distinction of starring in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace just a year after hitting it big with Pretty in Pink.

"Superman was just gonna be a lark, and I was gonna get to work with Gene Hackman, and they had gotten the whole cast together from the original, and Chris Reeve had written the story to the script, so everything was feeling like it was gonna be great, like everything was auspicious," said Cryer of the legendary flop. "But the people making the movie was a company called Cannon Films. And Cannon was famous for doing *beep* movies. And turns out there was a reason that they were famous for this. They were really bad at making movies. And they ran out of money about halfway in, and so they started cutting all these weird corners, and cutting out huge chunks of sequences that were supposed to be shot, and just never got shot."

Howard said Jon did the movie Superman 4. Howard asked how that was. Jon said it was supposed to be a great experience. Howard said he was a hit at the time with Pretty in Pink. Jon said he wanted to prove he was a good, serious actor. He said he was going to get to work with Gene Hackman. He said everything was feeling like it was going to be great. He said the company making it was Canon Films. He said they were known for doing *beep* movies. He said they were really bad at making movies. He said they ran out of money about halfway in. He said they cut corners and cut sequences and didn't shoot stuff.