CBS Chairman on Casting New 'Human Drama' SUPERGIRL
SUPERGIRL will undoubtedly be making her way to CBS, but she still has a little bit of a journey ahead of her.
According to Deadline, at today CBS' TCA executive session, network chairman Nina Tassler opened up about the "real passion" behind the project, and finally getting the Greg Berlanti series, which "embodies so many of the qualities and characteristics of the classic female heroines on CBS," to television.
"We're looking for quality, looking for charisma," Tassler said of casting, confirming that the iconic character's new costume has been created. "We are looking for someone who inhabits the freshness of being a woman in today's challenging climate, someone who can carry this kind of series on her shoulders."
With his series ARROW and THE FLASH on The CW, Berlanti sold the project to CBS, which gave SUPERGIRL a straight-to-series order, last year.
SUPERGIRL "centers on Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, who was born on the planet Krypton and escaped amid its destruction years ago," THR previously reported. "Since arriving on Earth, she has been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be."
Berlanti and Ali Adler will write the script for the pilot, as well as executive produce.
With CBS enlisiting SUPERGIRL, all five major networks can now claim their own heroic series. The CW carries Berlanti's other two, with NBC premiering CONSTANTINE and Fox GOTHAM this fall. ABC's MARVEL'S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. returned for its second season in 2014, with the CAPTAIN AMERICAN small screen spin-off AGENT CARTER debuting this month.
