This yr’s Sundance movie competition featured the documentary Super/Man, which chronicles the late Christopher Reeve, who performed the DC character from 1978-1987. With how beloved the actor’s tackle Superman was for a sure technology, it’s no shock that studios try to grab it up, and it might have discovered a house.
Per Deadline, Warner Bros. Discovery is the potential frontrunner for the documentary, and is trying to seize it for $15 million. Sources instructed the outlet WBD’s understandably put it on Max with Reeve’s Superman motion pictures on Max, the place the synergy makes itself. (Variety, equally, prompt it may play on CNN sooner or later.) On condition that we’re purported to be getting a model new Superman in David Corenswet in 2025, the alternatives principally write themselves. And may the deal fall by means of, Neon or Netflix (which now has DCEU motion pictures on its service) may decide it up as a substitute.
Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Tremendous/Man follows the actor’s tenure because the Man of Metal. His kids Matt, Alexandra, and William, had been all concerned within the documentary’s making, which options beforehand unreleased house motion pictures to indicate his life was modified after he was paralyzed in a 1995 horse competitors and his incapacity activism thereafter. Whereas doing promo for the documentary, the kids revealed they each haven’t seen The Flash, in addition they had no involvement with their father’s Superman recreated by way of deepfake cameo in the direction of the top of that film.
That final level understandably drew loads of ire WB’s approach final week, and it makes them doubtlessly grabbing Reeve’s documentary somewhat jarring. Whereas the studio clearly has a hold on that individual Superman (and people afterwards), it does really feel somewhat in unhealthy style to “resurrect” a lifeless actor after which personal his life story about mentioned character for nevertheless lengthy till it will get faraway from Max.
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