Despite launching an iconic career in the DCEU, Henry Cavill’s paycheck for his first outing as Superman was just a fraction of the amount received by one of the 1978 film’s most famous actors. Cavill’s Superman career began in Man of Steel, the springboard for the DCEU movie timeline, and several subsequent years of Cavill’s name being attached to Superman. 1978’s Superman, meanwhile, was a huge step towards popularizing the superhero genre in cinema. While movies starring comic book heroes weren’t unheard of at that point, the ambitious scale of Superman pioneered what has now become one of cinema’s most lucrative genres.

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