UPDATE: According to Deadline, Warner Bros is now the frontrunner to acquire “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” for $15M. This is probably the hottest doc to have screened at Sundance this year.
EARLIER: The dealmaking has also been unusually quiet at Sundance. The big acquisitions so far have been “A Real Pain” ($10 million), “It’s What’s Inside” ($17 million) and “Presence” (undisclosed). However, according to The Wrap, another major one is currently in the works.
Driven by a majority of positive reviews, multiple buyers are said to be circling Sundance documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story,” with offers on the table in the $10 million range. That’s a lot of dough for a documentary.
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” charts the late actor’s meteoric rise to fame as the Man of Steel, his tragic horse riding accident that left him paralyzed and his rebirth as a disability rights activist before his death at age 52 from cardiac arrest in October 2004.