Supergirl TV Series is being work on.

[Guy Gardener]

Now, U.S. District Judge Otis Wright has ruled that the heirs of Superman’s other creator – Joe Shuster – have no claim to those rights, as Jean Peavy, Shuster’s sister, struck a deal with DC Comics in 1992 covering her late brother’s debts (in addition to paying her $25,000 every year for the rest of her life).

With all that said, this ruling has no bearing whatsoever on the federal court’s previous ruling that Jerry Siegel’s heirs could reclaim 50% of Superman’s rights – including the origin story, the iconic costume, Clark Kent, and everything else from Action Comics #1 (which would leave Warner Bros. things like Lex Luthor, the power of flight, and Kryptonite).

What's the definition of the "iconic" costume? No underwear/belt and that collar is the new normal in the comics/movie, and metal rather than cloth? If Siegel and Shuster have no claim to the noniconic costumes which might very well cover the current one being used in movies and comics, and if not DC either, then who? The tiny S shield from Return of Superman (2006) on Kal's chest might also qualify as noniconicism? Probably not.

(Which is what I was trying to say earlier.)

 

[Captaindemotion]

Melissa Benoit talks about the role; describes it as a story about a human being realising their potential: http://screenrant.com/supergirl-tv-actress-details-story/

 

[Guy Gardener]

Human being?

**Breath**

**Breath**

 

[davejames]

I'm sure she didn't mean human being literally, just thematically. Much like how Spock, Data et al were used on their shows.

 

[jbny67]

I'm wondering if he can? Would it trip legalities if components of different Supermen are "rights" that are held by different people other then Warners, DC or Shuster's family.

I don't think Chris suited up in his Muppet Show episode, even though every one kept asking him to and the uniform was "seen" in his wardrobe but not put on... Although, a different landscape entirely, but George Reeves was completely Superman on I Love Lucy.

I've seen that episode dozens of times. I never noticed who the woman that sees Lucy on the windowsill was. It looks, and sounds like Aunt Harriet from the Batman TV show

 

[Christopher]

I've seen that episode dozens of times. I never noticed who the woman that sees Lucy on the windowsill was. It looks, and sounds like Aunt Harriet from the Batman TV show

Madge Blake. Yes, IMDb says she was in that episode.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I'm sure she didn't mean human being literally, just thematically. Much like how Spock, Data et al were used on their shows.

Exactly. Plus she's a young woman raised on Earth among human beings with the same emotions, aspirations etc as the rest of us. I'm assuming that's what she was getting at.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I went through breathing exercises so that none of you had to get into a panic about a pretty girl barely into 20s who has never had a talk to a nerd ever in her life revealed that she fundamentally misunderstood her character or just lacked the mental reserves to explain coherently what she did know... For gods sake an actor with out a script is always a recipe for disaster... Although Rachelle Lefevre last week on King of the Nerds nerded the #### out like a real poindexter and there wasn't a script in sight.

It's called a brain fart.

"I am a sexual X-Man! I am Volvarine!"

 

[Captaindemotion]

David Harewood and Chyler Leigh have joined the cast as the bad guy and the heroine's foster sister, respectively:

http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/supergirl-cbs-cast-chyler-leigh-david-harewood-1201442407/

 

[DigificWriter]

What's not being mentioned is that Henshaw is Alex's boss.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Gold stars for Chyler: "That 80s Show", "Not Another Teen Movie" and "Greys Anatomy".

Buckets of Shit for Chyler: "Taxi Brooklyn".



Curious about how David is going to feel playing a white guy?

No serious, Hank after having a 80s career as the Cyborg, before he replaced most of his biological bits replaced by Kryptonian clone meat, and did become the Cyborg Superman during the Reign of the Supermen, a seeming deadringer for Kal-El...

Of course, in the New 52, it is Kara's biological father who was remade into the Cyborg Superman by some big bad trying to be scary, which made absolutely no frickling sense.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Dean Cain and Helen Slater are appearing in the Pilot!!!!! Its not known yet who they are playing. /http://www.kryptonsite.com/news/dean-cain-helen-slater-to-appear-in-the-supergirl-pilot/

 

[Christopher]

That would be the second time Helen Slater has returned to a Superman-related project, since she played Lara on Smallville. It's even more appropriate to have her in Supergirl, though.

 

[Captaindemotion]

^And Cain was also in Smallville IIRC.

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

 

[Dick Whitman]

I have not really kept up on the characters list and who yet to be announced. The speculation I am reading is the Danvers. Her Human adoptive parents.

 

[Christopher]

^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.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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?

She was the first time that a returning actor to a Superhero franchise did so as a regular cast member. Usually these appearances are one off cameos or guest appearances.

John Wesley Shipp repeated this newer trend being in the new Flash's Pilot and reoccurring in a very important role. I suspect Cain and Slater's roles will be similarly important. Being introduced right at the beginning.

 

[Christopher]

^Well, technically it wasn't the first time a veteran returned as a regular. Noel Neill originally played Lois Lane in the '48 and '50 Superman movie serials, then replaced Phyllis Coates in the role in the second season of the Reeves TV series a few years later. And Pierre Watkin, who played Perry White in those serials, was slated to replace the late John Hamilton as Perry (or Perry's brother, depending on whom you ask) if there had been a seventh season of the TV series, but Reeves's death scuttled those plans.

Also there were cases where actors returned to the same role in a later incarnation of the same show: Bud Collyer and Joan Alexander as Superman and Lois in the '40s radio show, the '40s cartoon shorts, and the '66 Filmation show; Adam West and Burt Ward reprising Batman and Robin for Filmation in '77, and West playing Batman in The Super Powers Team in the '80s (plus Olan Soule and Casey Kasem playing B&R for Filmation in '68 and Hanna-Barbera in the '70s); Lou Ferrigno reprising the Hulk as a voice role in the '90s cartoon and in the feature films.

This probably wasn't a deliberate tribute, but Bob Hastings went from starring as Superboy in Filmation's 1966 series (and guest-starring in one episode of Batman '66) to playing Commissioner Gordon in Batman: The Animated Series.

 

[Enterprise is Great]

Jeremy Jordan to Play

Smash alum Jeremy Jordan can put his newest role in the Winn column.

The multitalented actor has signed on to guest-star as Supergirl‘s Winslow “Winn” Schott, a tech-savvy colleague of Kara’s, TVLine has learned.

 

[DigificWriter]

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.