James Gunn‘s “Superman” is celebrating each the legacy of the Man of Metal and the actor who originated him on the massive display with a particular cameo.
The late Christopher Reeve skilled his biggest business success enjoying Superman and his alter ego Clark Kent within the first 4 Superman motion pictures. Now, his youngest son, journalist and ABC Information correspondent Will Reeve, will make a cameo enjoying a TV reporter within the upcoming DC Studios film.
The venture is at the moment filming in Cleveland, Ohio, the place native reporters (through Cleveland.com) captured all of the behind-the-scenes motion, together with Reeve’s look on set throughout a serious scene. David Corenswet stars as Superman within the character’s newest revival, written and directed by Gunn, the co-head of Warner Bros.-owned DC Studios. The movie arrives in theaters on July 11, 2025.
Will Reeve and his older siblings Matthew and Alexandra have had the superhero entrance of thoughts recently due to Ian Bonhote and Peter Ettedgui’s documentary “Tremendous/Man,” which chronicles their late father’s life and profession. The Reeve youngsters seem within the documentary because it explores the actor’s rise to Hollywood icon standing and the near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down. (Reeve died in 2004.) Following its buzzy Sundance Movie Competition premiere, “Tremendous/Man” finalized a deal to promote to Warner Bros. Discovery for roughly $15 million.
“Nearly all of my reminiscences of my dad contain him after the accident as a result of I used to be not but three years outdated when he was injured,” Will Reeve instructed Selection on the pageant. “So to see his total life main up till that point laid out so poetically and cinematically and authentically by our fantastic administrators has been an actual present for me.”
In that interview, the Reeve youngsters had been additionally requested about their ideas on Christopher Reeve’s look in final yr’s Warner Bros. comedian guide tentpole “The Flash,” wherein his iteration of Superman (recreated by CGI) is noticed by Ezra Miller’s Flash out within the multiverse. None of them had watched “The Flash” and they didn’t have involvement in that cameo. However, Will Reeve’s look within the upcoming “Superman” marks a step ahead within the synergistic relationship between the household and the studio as all issues Superman pattern up, up and away.
The documentary will hit the massive display this fall, playing in select theaters on Sept. 21 adopted by an encore presentation on Christopher Reeve’s birthday, Sept. 25. DC Studios is collaborating with Fathom Occasions on the theatrical launch.
DC Studios didn’t return request for touch upon Reeve’s cameo.
