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 Smallville – Alfredo 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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November 19, 2015 at 2:22 am
I’ve never wrote on here before so I’m not sure if anyone reads this. But I have a few thoughts I wanna talk about if anyone wants to listen they’re strictly opinion. I posted this on another site and got DESTROYED. People hated the idea. Anyway, I like the new shows for what they are. Super girl is my FAVORITE superhero next to superman. I’ve only seen 2 episodes of the show though. Anyways, I watch flash and arrow (arrow hasn’t been as good lately) but I’m a HUGE smallville fan so no movie or shows will ever fill that void. But, my idea was to have smallville/flash/arrow to crossover. Flash has the multiverse now. I doubt tom would want to but you have Chloe, Lois, green arrow, aquaman, etc. Imagine lex teaming up with zoom or vandal savage or grood, etc. I can’t complain either way, smallville had a LONG rung and was very near and dear to me and ended greatly. But I thought that idea would be cool. Ratings would be huge! Could be a tv movie or minievent. They wouldn’t have to do that story, but at least show Chloe. Could you imagine green arrow and arrow together!? They have tried to make arrow more comedic and that would be the perfect way. That would help the transition without making it to much. Have green arrow cracking more jokes and heckling arrow for being serious. So many ideas I have and so many could be done! Sorry for the long rant and I’m sorry if anyone disagrees or if I offended anyone. I’d love to hear from someone that would like that or would want to talk about smallville. I’m not gonna bash flash, arrow, or supergirl. They’re good shows and I watch them all but I grew up on smallville and have always been a superman fan (90s mullet haha!). But thanks for all the work this site does. Would love to buy some merchandise with kryptonsite on it or if anyone knows where I can buy cheap smallville merch (shirts, toys, etc). And I have been trying to find the smallville comics but they’re so spread out I cant keep up! Does anyone knows if they did any big omnibuses’ or companions? I’m dying to own them but don’t want to have to spend hundreds squaring all the trades and miniseries. Thanks guys.