This 12 months’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 seeking to seize it for $15 million. Sources informed the outlet WBD’s understandably put it on Max with Reeve’s Superman films on Max, the place the synergy makes itself. (Variety, equally, prompt it might play on CNN sooner or later.) Provided that we’re imagined to be getting a model new Superman in David Corenswet in 2025, the alternatives principally write themselves. And may the deal fall via, Neon or Netflix (which now has DCEU films on its service) would possibly decide it up as an alternative.
Directed by Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui, Tremendous/Man follows the actor’s tenure because the Man of Metal. His youngsters Matt, Alexandra, and William, have been all concerned within the documentary’s making, which options beforehand unreleased residence films to point out 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 youngsters revealed they each haven’t seen The Flash, additionally they had no involvement with their father’s Superman recreated by way of deepfake cameo in direction of the top of that film.
That final level understandably drew loads of ire WB’s method final week, and it makes them doubtlessly grabbing Reeve’s documentary a little bit jarring. Whereas the studio clearly has a hold on that specific Superman (and people afterwards), it does really feel a little bit in unhealthy style to “resurrect” a lifeless actor after which personal his life story about stated character for nonetheless lengthy till it will get faraway from Max.
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