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Christopher Reeve Documentary ‘Super/Man’ Selling to Warner Bros. Discovery For Roughly $15 Million After Sundance Premiere


"Super/Man," a documentary about the life of Christopher Reeve, has sold following its buzzy Sundance Film Festival premiere.

It’s an interesting home for the documentary, because Reeve experienced his greatest commercial success playing the Man of Steel in the first four Superman movies, which Warner Bros. produced. “I think he was very conscious of that irony and the legacy of ‘Superman’ when people viewed his story and thought about him after the accident,” his daughter, Alexandra, told Variety prior to the film’s premiere. Bonhote and Ettedgui, who collaborated on the 2018 doc “McQueen,” expressed the desire to make a film about the challenges that face people — those from all walks of life — with disabilities.

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