It’s been a while since I’ve posted, hasn’t it? Well, a lot has happened in my life since my last blog. To boil it down in a nutshell, life happened. For a time I lost my mojo, my will to write. It felt like for a time, maybe this is it. Maybe there’s nothing left to write about or talk about. Is there nothing more?

And then I noticed something interesting happening. A lot of people started liking my blog page on Facebook. That means that there’s more people out there who are hungry to know more about the Superman movies and wanting some fresh content about the Man of Steel, especially now that we’ve crossed the 45-year mark at the end of 2023. And as we move through 2024, maybe there is a lot more that we have yet to explore. Especially now with the incredible reviews coming from the Sundance Film Festival about the new documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, which should get a wide theatrical release and an eventual distribution on physical and streaming media, thanks to the recent announcement of Warner Bros. Discovery’s $15 million acquisition of the documentary. Then there’s Reeve’s final acting performance in the Smallville episode “Legacy”, which is a fitting title for his own legacy and time in both this world and the Superman franchise. Then there’s Superman in concert, special concert screenings of the film with a live performance of the iconic John Williams score. And so much more to come this year.

But let’s start with something interesting that you may not have stopped to think about. There was that one time when Superman made a multiverse crossover with none other than the Ghostbusters.

In the summer of 1989 Ghostbusters II hit movie theaters. The year was already packed with sequels almost left and right—Lethal Weapon 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, The Karate Kid III, and Licence to Kill among them all jockeying for screen supremacy—but everyone was eclipsed by the phenomenon that was Batman that year. And Ghostbusters II was thrown into the mix.

To promote the film, R&B singer Bobby Brown performed the song “On Our Own”, which was featured in the film, and a music video was produced for airplay on MTV (yes Virginia, there was a time when MTV actually played music!). Like the chart-topping song from Ray Parker Jr. for the first film, the Bobby Brown video featured numerous cameos from not only Rick Moranis of Ghostbusters II but other well known celebrities including Donald Trump, Jane Curtin, Lori Singer, Iman, the Ramones, Sally Kirkland, Victoria Jackson, and billionaire Malcolm Forbes.

And smack in the middle of the video was none other than Christopher Reeve himself, riding his bicycle through New York City and pausing for a moment to smile. Check it out at the 1:14 mark.

The film made a decent profit, earning over $112 million at the box office and an overall $215 million worldwide return on a $25 million budget, no small potatoes indeed. And to think that Cannon Films’ proposed Superman V was scheduled for release in the summer of 1989 – it would have gotten lost in the shuffle of all the other sequels that year.

And it would be nearly thirty years before the franchise would be rebooted, followed by two sequels to the original, including the forthcoming Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

So far, “On Our Own” marks the only time that our beloved Man of Steel appeared in a music video.