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Supergirl TV Series is being work on.

Since the character of Wynn was originally intended to be a series regular, I'm wondering if Jordan's casting is what caused the writers to downgrade the role to potential recurring character status.

I don't follow you. Is this Jordan someone who's unlikely to be available regularly?
 
Since the character of Wynn was originally intended to be a series regular, I'm wondering if Jordan's casting is what caused the writers to downgrade the role to potential recurring character status.

I don't follow you. Is this Jordan someone who's unlikely to be available regularly?

I'm assuming that's what he was implying but Jordan's IMDB page doesn't suggest that he's hugely busy:http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2921091/?ref_=nv_sr_1
 
Jeremy is a Broadway "star" which means he wants to do 3 shows a day of something in front of a live audience.

However Wikipedia says that he's been into movies and TV recently rather than the stage for the last 3 years.

His (singing) voice is fine, but on the tv series Smash I couldn't take him seriously as a leading man because Jez has one of those faces that looks like it might have been smooshed in a vice. Although Jordan probably has one of those bodies that cleverly distracts suitors from his face.
 
Even if Jordan isn't currently especially busy, he might not have wanted to sign on as a series regular (which wouldn't be out-of-the-question).

I'm admittedly just spit-balling ideas to explain the character's downgrade in status, and could be completely wrong about Jordan's casting having anything at all to do with why the role is now a "potentially recurring" one.
 
Star Wars Money.

Calista has all that Star Wars money at home.

I'm thinking the show might have had to move a few things around if Calista didn't want Harrison to laugh at her.

Yes, that is mostly a joke, but gender dominance was really what I heard was the thinking of Lee Majors in the 1970s, who barely tolerated that his wife had a job, since her role on Charlie's angels raked in a fraction of what they paid him to be the 6 million dollar man.

Can you imagine Farrah Fawcet as a house wife vacuuming and revacuuming until Lee got home from work?
 
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Filming on the series' Pilot starts tomorrow. After 4 months of whirlwind info and crazy anticipation, it's "all systems go". :)
 
^And Cain was also in Smallville IIRC.

Oh, that's right. He was the villain who was implicitly Vandal Savage.


Shades also of how Flash has used various actors who appeared also in the 1990s version.

Usually as the same characters! (More or less.)

Of course, it's an old tradition. There was a Lois and Clark episode where Jimmy Olsen was hyper-aged and turned into Jack Larson, Jimmy from the '50s Adventures of Superman. Larson also appeared in the syndicated Superboy series from the late '80s, IIRC. I think Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill played Lois's parents in the train scene in Superman: The Movie, and Phyllis Coates played Lois's mother in the first season of L&C (though she was replaced later by Beverly Garland). And Smallville also had Christopher Reeve and Margot Kidder. Then there's Adam West playing guest characters in multiple Batman cartoons, Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill playing guest characters in The Batman and Batman: The Brave and the Bold, etc. And so on.

Also, Robert Shayne (Adventures of Superman recurring character Inspector Henderson) had a recurring role on the 1990 series The Flash as Reggie, the blind man running Barry's favorite news stand.
 
Filming on the series' Pilot starts tomorrow. After 4 months of whirlwind info and crazy anticipation, it's "all systems go". :)

Which hopefully means we'll get a glimpse of the Supergirl costume soon (either from set photos or an official release).
 
Is this being intended as a series for next season, or later?

Unless it gets held for midseason, the show will more than likely air this Fall. We should be finding out exactly how many episodes are in the first season, as well as when it'll air, come the network's Upfronts in May.
 
Callista is going to be AWOL until Harrison is feeling better.

They'll either shoot around her absence or recast.
 
Of course, it's an old tradition. There was a Lois and Clark episode where Jimmy Olsen was hyper-aged and turned into Jack Larson, Jimmy from the '50s Adventures of Superman. Larson also appeared in the syndicated Superboy series from the late '80s, IIRC. [/I]

And he played Bibbo in Superman Returns.

I think Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill played Lois's parents in the train scene in Superman: The Movie


That's right.

Also Annette O'Toole first as Lana Lang in Superman III and later as Martha Kent on Smallville. Interesting in that Pilot originally had another actress as Martha. When they recast her they reshot all of the scenes she appeared in. I wonder if Annette was their first choice but was not available at the time the Pilot was filmed?

I can't speak to that, but I think I read that they didn't know who she was until after she was cast in Smallville.

She could still have been their first choice, but Superman III wouldn't have been the reason.
 
Which hopefully means we'll get a glimpse of the Supergirl costume soon (either from set photos or an official release).

Warners has released the first pictures of Benoist as Supergirl.

The costume could use yellow in the S-logo, but otherwise I think it's fine. It looks like the classic Supergirl costume by way of Man of Steel, but with leggings instead of bare legs.
 
Not bad. I'm sure the darker colours will look good on TV. I'm kind of surprised they went with such a classic look.
 
The lines are classic, the colors and material are modern (seriously, why do so many superhero costumes these days look like they're made of basketball rubber?). Not sure how well the blend works for me, though it looks good in broad strokes.

The cape and miniskirt aren't too practical for an action heroine, though. Maybe a shorter, waist-length cape like the DCAU Supergirl wore would work better.
 
It looks like a costume you can buy. So did the original film's version. But Helen Slater was awesome.. the movie might not have serviced her talents well but you can still see that sh was great .. she inhabited the role with a great deal of authority enough to make you look past the silliness of the costume.

The new actress has to that. I've never seen her before.. but just from the picture, her face doesn't look all that attractive to me. I wish I could explain
 
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