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Dean Cain & Helen Slater Supergirl Roles Revealed?

Has IMDb blown the lid off of the secret identities of the characters played by Dean Cain and Helen Slater on Supergirl?

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The Internet Movie Database isn’t always accurate, as some submissions could come from a fan’s overzealous wishful thinking. It’s that kind of wishful thinking that generated an entire listing for a non-existent 2013 Metropolis TV show starring Tom Welling and Erica Durance a few years ago.

However, sometimes managers are the ones making submissions, and they don’t try to hide casting surprises and things like that.

newadditionsWhy are we talking about this?

Because the IMDb page for Supergirl is listing Dean Cain and Helen Slater as playing Fred and Sylvia Danvers, Kara’s Earth parents.

Now, we didn’t reach out to the studio to confirm this one – because we’re pretty sure they wouldn’t comment, even to say that it’s completely false – but we are sharing that this information is out there. Already, the Danvers seemed to be the most logical characters for the former Superman and Supergirl to be playing, so if they do turn out to be the Danvers after all, it wouldn’t be a shock. And, as a bonus, this kind of casting would mean that we’d [ideally] see them fairly often on the new show.

FLA101a_0103rThis wouldn’t be the first time a legacy actor played a hero’s parent: On The Flash, which shares some of the Supergirl executive producers, Henry Allen (Barry’s dad) is played by classic Flash John Wesley Shipp. Smallville’s Martha Kent was played by Superman III’s Lana Lang, Annette O’Toole, and Lois & Clark’s Teri Hatcher made a brief appearance on Smallville as the mother of Lois. The first actress to play Lois Lane’s mother on Lois & Clark was a former Lois Lane herself, Phyllis Coates. Going back to when this kind of casting started, Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill played Lois Lane’s parents in the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve… and these are just a few examples of when it has happened before.

The Supergirl pilot is currently shooting for a hopeful spot on the CBS Fall schedule.

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  1. W. K. Lis

    March 15, 2015 at 6:14 am

    Dean Cain starred in Lois & Clark, The New Adventures of Superman between September 12, 1993 and June 14, 1997. Helen Slater starred in Supergirl in 1984. So most kids under age 18, and likely a few adults under 21, would remember them. So they would face an entirely new audience.

  2. Starrxxfoxx

    March 16, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    I remember seeing Kirk Alyn and Noel Neill in SUPERMAN THE MOVIE and I knew exactly who they were. For those who don’t know, Kirk and Noel were little Lois’s parents on the train that went thru Smallville when Lois saw Clark racing along the train.

    Noel also played Lex Luthor’s dying wife at the beginning of SUPERMAN RETURNS.

    Kirk Alyn was the very first on screen live action SUPERMAN in 2 serial movies in the 40’s and Noel Neill played Lois Lane in both of them!

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Supergirl & Smallville Writers Have A New Comic Book-Inspired Series

Eric Carrasco, Alfredo Septien, and Turi Meyer will be showrunners for El Gato starring Diego Boneta.

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Prime Video, which recently has been the home of some of the best comic book-inspired series with shows like Invincible and The Boys, is currently casting a live-action adaptation of the comic book series El Gato Negro by Richard Dominguez. (El Gato Negro translates to “The Black Cat,” so we wouldn’t be surprised if there is a title change to avoid Marvel’s Black Cat.) With the working title El Gato, the showrunners include veterans from Supergirl and Smallville.

Eric Carrasco wrote several memorable episodes of Supergirl between Seasons 2 and 4 and eventually served as a story editor on the series. He wrote the Justice League vs. the Fatal Five animated feature and is a producer for Zack Snyder’s upcoming Twilight of the Gods. He’s also been an Uber — err Ride Me Now driver for two stoners from New Jersey in their reboot movie. What’s also very cool about Eric is that one of his earliest industry jobs was working on a TV series called Smallville. Perhaps you’ve heard of it.

The other two showrunners need no introduction when it comes to SmallvilleAlfredo Septien & Turi Meyer were among the most prolific writers for the show, on the team for six seasons with episodes including “Vengeance,” “Labyrinth,” “Bride,” “Salvation,” and “Finale Part 1.” Turi Meyer also directed two episodes of Smallville, and the two of them returned to the DC Universe with DC’s Stargirl on The CW in recent years.

The series will star Diego Boneta as the main character, Frank Guerrero, who returns home to Mexico after the death of his father and finds himself neck-deep in a nest of vipers – his estranged family – who are vying for control of his father’s business empire. But Frank’s grief is interrupted when he learns his only inheritance, a seemingly worthless parcel of land on the border, sits atop the lair of a famous costumed vigilante — his father, “El Gato.” Now, Frank is in the crosshairs. To survive, he’ll have to solve mysteries decades in the making and unravel the truth about his father’s connections to a modern-day terror plot.

“This is a pulp thriller,” Eric Carrasco said in a quote posted by Variety earlier this year. “It’s a family drama, it’s everything I love about spies and masks and secret identities. A lot of us on this team – Diego, and Andrew Mittman, and Steve Stark, and Carla Gonzalez Vargas, and I – have been at this for a long time now, and it’s a genuine thrill to finally make the show with MGM Television and Prime Video.”

El Gato will be produced by MGM Television which is part of Amazon MGM Studios. Hopefully we’ll learn more about this project as development progresses! For now, though, congratulations to Eric, Al, and Turi!

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Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Release Date Announced

The Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow film is currently scheduled for a 2026 release.

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The Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow film has had a release date announced — and it’s less than a year after James Gunn’s Superman.

Warner Bros. announced Tuesday that the new film for the Maid of Might — based on the comic by Tom King and Bilquis Evely — is on the schedule for June 26, 2026. Of course, plans can and often do change, but that’s where it’s set for now. The film is said to “depart from the earnest take on the character” that was seen on The CW’s Supergirl TV series.

Milly Alcock will play Supergirl, and it is expected that we will see her before this movie — in Superman, perhaps? Craig Gillespie (Cruella) is the director.

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New Supergirl Featurette Includes Laura Vandervoort, Melissa Benoist & More

Supergirl actresses Laura Vandervoort, Melissa Benoist, Sasha Calle, and Helen Slater are included in a retrospective featurette on The Flash Blu-ray.

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One of the rare good elements from the recent Flash movie was the inclusion of Sasha Calle as Supergirl, and now, we can revisit her and a few old Supergirl favorites, as Laura Vandervoort (Smallville), Melissa Benoist (Supergirl TV series from The CW & CBS), and Helen Slater (movies’ original Supergirl) are all included on a featurette on The Flash movie home release. These are all new interviews with the actresses, and in some cases, these are their first interviews about the character in years. The title of the featurette is “Supergirl: The Last Daughter of Krypton.”

Although a Twitter/X report from “Sennaverse” on Twitter notes that the documentary can be found on the MAX streaming service, we have had no luck finding it there so far. The featurette is included, however, with purchase of The Flash movie on 4K UHD, Blu-ray and DVD. The set is due for release on Tuesday, August 29. You can purchase that here and support KryptonSite if you wish! 

We’re looking forward to seeing these new interviews and spotlight on the Woman of Tomorrow!

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