TVLine Items: Super/Man Release Date, Einstein Adds Rosa Salazar and More

Ryan Schwartz

26 November 2024 at 6:30 pm·2-min read

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s… the trailer for the highly anticipated documentary about real-life superhero Christopher Reeve.

HBO has announced that DC Studios’ Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story will air Saturday, Dec. 7 at 8/7c (and stream on Max). “Chronicling his personal and professional life before and after the near-fatal horseback riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down,” the film “uses Reeve’s own words, as well as intimate input from his closest family members and friends, to paint a rich, nuanced portrait of a man who refused to be defined by his physicality and who proved that you don’t need tights and a cape to be a hero,” according to the official logline.

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Featured participants include Reeve’s children, Matthew Reeve, Alexandra Reeve Givens and Will Reeve; actors Susan Sarandon, Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Whoopi Goldberg; half-brother Kevin Johnson; friend Michael Manganiello; Superman producer Pierre Spengler; and former secretary of state John Kerry. The film also includes archival footage of wife Dana Reeve, father Franklin Reeve, director Richard Donner, and mother Barbara Johnson.

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* Rosa Salazar (Parenthood, Undone) will star opposite Matthew Gray Gubler in CBS’ Einstein pilot, Variety reports. The potential series, which is based on the German procedural of the same name, casts the Criminal Minds vet as Albert Einstein’s “brilliant but directionless” great-grandson.

* Matthew Broderick and his son James Wilkie Broderick will both guest-star in a 2025 episode of CBS’ Elsbeth, playing a man who helps Manhattan’s elite get their kids into he prep schools of their choice, and his top “success trainer.”

* Thomas Haden Church (Wings) has joined Season 2 of Netflix’s Tires, per Variety, on which he’ll play Shane Gillis’ “wealthy but immature” father.

* The MrBeast competition series Beast Games will premiere Thursday, Dec. 19 on Prime Video. Watch a trailer:

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