Man of Steel Blu-Ray Offers No Answer on Christopher Reeve Question

Back when Man of Steel was in theaters, a great number of our readers reached out to us to ask whether we had heard anything about Christopher Reeve supposedly making a stealth “cameo” in the film.When Superman is about to destroy the World Engine, in a scene that’s a pretty clear homage to the old Fleischer cartoons (see image below), there’s what appears to be a distortion to his face. Many fans thought Cavill’s face was briefly, digitally replaced by Reeve’s in an homage to the actor who defined Superman for a generation of moviegoers.Our inclination is to say that’s not the case, but there’s no solid evidence one way or another. Watching closely and in high-def, it seems as though Cavill’s face just looks more like Reeve’s when he’s in that sequence, with special effects and probably high-powered fans blowing on his face. What seemed in the theater like a half-second is actually a longer period of time during which there’s not one particular shot where he looks more like Reeve than others to us, so it seems unlikely to have been digital manipulation.