CBS making "Supergirl" series

[Bob Schroeck]

And they've cast Melissa Benoist of Glee and the recent Oscar-nominated/winning film Whiplash as the title character.  Article, photos at CNN http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/entertain ... index.html]here.
I dunno.  Regardless of how lousy the film was, I always loved Helen Slater's look as Supergirl.  Put her circa 1989 in that Man of Steel-influenced costume and I'd be a happy movie-goer.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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[RMH999]

Helen Slater and Dean Cain will both have roles of some type in the new Supergirl show.
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
- Albert Einstein

[Bob Schroeck]

Well, that's cool. I guess lacking an iconic figure like Stan Lee to be in every DC production, making sure your previous generations of performers get places in the next generation work is a good substitute.

And hey, Dean got a little chunky, didn't he?

Supposition: Those two might be playing Supergirl's parents, assuming they run the origin story the same.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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[khagler]

IMDB does show a credit for Alura Zor-El, but it's someone named Laura Benanti.

It will be interesting to see what they do with the character. She looks considerably older than the comic versions of Supergirl, but Hollywood often casts much older actors as high school students, so that might not mean anything.

[robkelk]

Supposition: Those two might be playing Supergirl's parents, assuming they run the origin story the same.

Which origin story? The DC universe has been rebooted so many times, I've lost track of them all.
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[Pyeknu]

robkelk wrote:

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Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Supposition: Those two might be playing Supergirl's parents, assuming they run the origin story the same.

Which origin story? The DC universe has been rebooted so many times, I've lost track of them all.

LOL!  Ain't that the truth?!

[Bob Schroeck]

Ah. Remember I grew up in the Silver Age, and stopped collecting between The Crisis on the Infinite Earths and the start of the rotating "Crisis of Insufficient Sales" events. To me, the definining Supergirl is Kara Zor-el, daughter of Zor-El and Alura, from Argo City. (Say, has anyone ever filked "Banned from Argo" for Supergirl?)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
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[Foxboy]

I personally grew up on silver-age digest reprints (remember those?) and Sat AM shows based on said reprints with a soupcon of Golden Age Nostalgia through a camp filter from the earliest syndicated runs of the Adam West Batman. I was just young enough to be "target audience, if on the high end" for the first couple seasons of Timm's Batman...
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[Ebony]

Kara Zor-El is also my Supergirl, but Matrix/Linda Lee (the post-Crisis on Infinite Earths version) is an interesting character that I thought the DC folks of the time did really interesting things with. They're bringing her back in the upcoming new crisis, Convergence, so it'll be interesting to see if she stays around.
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