When filmmakers Peter Ettedgui and Ian Bonhôte embarked on telling Christopher Reeve’s story, the last thing they wanted to do was make a typical biopic.
Their biggest concern in telling Reeve’s heroic journey was that it would be a story of two halves. Reeve portrayed Superman in blockbuster films in the late 1970s and 1980s, but his life was rocked by tragedy after suffering a horseback riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down and unable to breath without use of a ventilator.
In the aftermath of the accident, he became an advocate for spinal cord injuries. “We were worried that the film would
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