Christopher Reeve documentary Super/Man will fly onto Max after WBD picks up the Sundance favorite
The inspirational Christopher Reeve biopic was a Sundance Festival hit, and now WBD has bagged the streaming rights
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The Christopher Reeve documentarySuper/Man: The Christopher Reeve Storywas one of the hits of this year’s Sundance film festival, and Warner Bros. Discovery has bagged the streaming rights in a deal worth a reported $15 million, according toVariety. The deal is precedent-setting for a Sundance documentary launch and likely means that the documentary will stream onMax.
It’s been a good year for Sundance documentaries: Will Ferrell’s road trip with his trans friend,Will & Harper, has also generated serious buzz after it was greeted with tears and a standing ovation at the festival.Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Storyhas been similarly well received, and by all accounts it’s very emotional.
The documentary features home movies we’ve never seen before as well as extensive selections from Reeves' own archives as it tells the story of how Reeves became an iconic movie hero and then suffered a terrible accident that left him reliant on a ventilator.
Why Super/Man’s home planet is likely to be Max
Deadlinesays that part of Max’s pitch is that it already owns the original 1978Supermanfilm, directed by Richard Donner, and that “would make the film a glove fit for the studio” – and there’s more synergy in the form of the imminent Superman revampSuperman: Legacy, which is coming next year.
The documentary has already received lots of glowing reviews. Writing inVariety, Owen Glieberman says it’s both superbly made and supremely moving; “the documentary fills in his life with an absorbing richness… There’s an incredible drama to the story of how he recovered from the cataclysm, learning to breathe and talk and, more than that, rehabilitating his life”.
Meanwhile,The Hollywood Reportersays it’s a “deeply affecting film… rich in evidence of hope and kindness, gratitude and the resilience of the human spirit”, andTime Outsays that “The Man of Steel gets the documentary he deserves, 20 years after his death… it’s an intensely moving experience.”
Although the biopic will likely be a tearjerker,Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Storysounds like it’s going to be a must-watch when it comes to thebest streaming servicelater this year.
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