Christopher Reeve’s struggles with paralysis are brought into the spotlight in an uplifting trailer for the new documentary. More below:
Two minutes in to the first trailer for upcoming super-doc, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, I wasn’t quite in tears – but I was pretty darn close.
Focusing on the Superman actor’s activism and philanthropy after a horse riding accident in 1995 left him paralysed from the neck down, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story looks set to push the emotional buttons of anyone even remotely familiar with the actor, the character, or pop culture in general.
Check out the first Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story trailer below:
Reeve’s story is a pretty extraordinary one. After his life-changing accident, the already committed environmental and human rights activist lobbied for spinal injury research and for better insurance coverage for people with disabilities in the US, leading the Christopher And Dana Reeve Foundation and founding the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at the University Of California.
Now, the new documentary from McQueen directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui looks to put Reeve’s story onto the medium he embodied for so many. Featuring interviews with Christopher and Dana’s three children and a host of Hollywood actors, if the full film doesn’t leave me weeping in the aisles of my local Picturehouse, I’ll eat my supersuit.
Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story arrives in UK cinemas on 1st November.
