Superman and San Andreas Mashup — SUPERMANDREAS

Apparently I wasn't the only one to noticed the similarities between the upcoming movie San Andreas and Superman (1978) that both feature wanton destruction of California. Nick Acosta took the trailer from San Andreas and edited out Dwayne Johnson, rotoscoped Christopher Reeve as Superman into shots of destruction, and even peppered intercuts between the two movies. The mashup is well made and really illustrates the visual overlap these films have.

San Andreas will crack open theaters May 29th (USA).

Next month a new disaster movie starring The Rock called "San Andreas” is slated to premiere in theaters. From the trailer it looks bad, formulaic, and poorly acted. I also noticed that some of the film’s big disaster set pieces (the destruction of the Hoover Dam and Golden Gate bridge) looked very familiar to me. They are almost shot for shot the same as from one my favorite movies growing up - the 1978 film “Superman.” So I decided to re-edit the “San Andreas” trailer to take out The Rock and his wooden acting and put in a 27-year-old Christopher Reeve as Superman. I even rotoscoped him flying from the 1978 film into “San Andreas.” Christopher Reeve’s Superman was my first childhood hero growing up. I still consider him the definitive Superman and I still can hear his voice when I read new Superman comics. So it was an immense pleasure to drop him into a modern day movie and see him fly one more time in his prime. Please check out “San Andreas” re-cut to the 1978 film “Superman,” I call it SUPERMANDREAS For more info on how this was made and to compare it to the actual "San Andreas" trailer you can goto my portfolio site. http://cargocollective.com/nickacosta/SUPERMANDREAS