Christopher Reeve’s Family Had No Involvement With His CGI Superman Cameo in The Flash

(IGN) – Christopher Reeve’s children have revealed they have not seen The Flash and were not involved in approving the CGI Superman cameo in the film.

Will, Matthew, and Alexandra Reeve stopped by the Variety studio to discuss Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a new documentary exploring the life and work of their late father. All three confirmed they had not watched The Flash and were not involved with the movie’s digital recreation of the Superman actor.

1984’s Supergirl movie spin-off arrived during Christopher Reeve’s tenure as the big screen’s Man of Steel, and it acknowledged that Helen Slater’s Kara Zor-El was Kal-El’s cousin. However, the two Kryptonians never shared the screen until The Flash. A digital recreation of Reeve’s Superman appeared alongside Slater’s Supergirl in one of the worlds depicted during the film’s climactic Chronobowl sequence.

The cameo sparked some anger among fans, with many speculating that Reeve would have loathed the lingering shot of his Superman, whom he played in four films in the ’70s and ’80s, beginning with 1978’s Superman: The Movie. Multiple interviews resurfaced of Reeve, who died at 52 in 2004, sharing his distaste for taking recurring roles for a paycheck, prioritizing the “integrity of your work.”