Christopher Reeve’s children haven’t watched that posthumous CG The Flash cameo
Reeve's children also say he would be most proud of Remains Of The Day, not Superman
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Andy Muschietti’s The Flash famously featured a weird parade of CG-heavy superhero cameos near the end (separate from the non-CG but equally weird superhero cameo at the very end), including Nic Cage in a brief nod to the scrapped Superman Lives movie he developed with Tim Burton a million years ago and someone who is definitely not Teddy Sears from the Flash TV show running by as one of the other people called the Flash in DC’s comics. One of the most surprising cameos, though, is shot of Christopher Reeve’s Superman—recreated with computers 19 years after the actor’s death.
Now, while appearing at the Sundance Film Festival, Reeve’s children have shared a short reaction to their father’s Flash cameo—which is to say that they have pointedly not reacted to it. As reported by Variety, Reeve’s children (Will, Matthew, and Alexandra) said that they have not seen The Flash and also that they did not have any involvement in making the cameo happen, seemingly implying that they did not sign off on it or approve of it.
Will Reeve also noted that, if you were to ask their father what role he was the most proud of today, he would say Remains Of The Day rather than Superman. Even though it wasn’t a big role, he said his dad was always happy he was able to show a “completely different side of himself” in that movie.
The trio were at Sundance to promote Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve story, a new documentary about their father that is seeking distribution. They told Variety that the film is a “beautiful gift,” since it gives them a chance to revisit their father’s life “in its totality,” including “the highs and lows, the public facade and what’s happening at home.”
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They’re lucky. I wish I hadn’t seen that either
In Remains of the Day he plays an American politician visiting a British estate and expresses his contempt for the aristocrats’ sympathies for Nazi Germany and stands up to extol freedom and democracy. So…um, it’s kind of a Superman like role actually. Sorry Chris.
Ok to be fair I painted a somewhat rosy picture on it, watched the clip again and what he actually extols is tough minded realpolitik, but still, ultimately in the service of traditional Anglo-American democratic ideals against the Nazi menace.
Sour grapes.
A lot of people are acting very surprised about this, while I’d just been assuming it the whole time.
There was real Remains of the Day / DCU crossover potential that was totally wasted. The Merchant Ivory Extended Universe (MIXU) should’ve happened
…in which a hyper-dedicated butler who lets his sense of duty prevent him from living his own life is also Thor’s dad.
You internet folks act like these cameos were 4 minutes long! they were 30 seconds at best …blink and you miss it. People are asking Reeves kids about a CG Cameo of their dad 7 months after the movie came out. Slow news day.
Your blinks are 30 seconds long? You need to go see a doctor!
Genuine question:Imagine you’re interviewing people about the release of a documentary about a man’s life. The man died 19 years ago so there haven’t been many updates in his life recently. HOWEVER, the man was recently recreated digitally in a controversial technique that connects the man to a currently red hot debate over corporations owning the image rights of dead performers, something that has been a serious conversation all over the entertainment world for a year.Are you saying that it would be better NOT to ask the children what they thought about that? What brilliant questions would you be asking instead that your readers would be MORE interested in?
It’s okay to exploit the dead so long as you do it for less than four minutes, says man who doesn’t know he’s on the internet.
The thing that confused me about the Superman cameos was that the movie was called and is ostensibly about The goddamn Flash. Why not show John Wesley Shipp and Grant Gustin? Hell, why not use Teddy Sears’ likeness instead of a generic actor? I know movie producers and studio executives – particularly Warner Brothers – are very adamant about there being a wall between movie and TV and never shall the twain meet, but Adam West and George Reeves made it in.
By that point it hit me. It wasn’t a Flash movie, it was a stockholder advertisement for the Warner Bros Superhero IP Multiverse.
Look, nerd culture is just holding up a series of flash cards with familiar things on it and charging ‘em for the opportunity to say “I REMEMBER THAT! DAE?!?”
Reeve was great. He had a number of good roles besides Superman. Easily the best Superman too.
They never should have included it, especially without the family’s blessing, Reeve means a lot to certain generations, both as Superman and as himself.
I saw the Reeves’ costume there at the Warner Bros lot a little over a year ago. (Along with the Carter Wonder Woman outfit and Keaton Batman get-up.) It’s falling apart–some restoration would be a good thing.
I was delighted with the Adam West Batman cameo but found the Reeves Superman cameo ghoulish and depressing and it took me a few days to figure out why. Adam West died at a ripe old age after having reconciled with his legacy as Batman and had the unconditional love of the fandom. Reeves died tragically before his time and his Superman was never rediscovered the way West’s Batman was.