New SUPERGIRL Promo and Details on How Superman Will Be Depicted
CBS has released a new promo spot for their upcoming Supergirl series that my girls are extremely excited about watching. Hopefully it's good, because no matter what, I'll be watching it every week.
We got a brief shadowy glimpse of Superman in a previous trailer for the series. We know that he'll play some kind of role in the show, but we don't really know exactly how involved he'll be. We don't even know who will be playing him. There's a reason for all of the mystery, though. Executive producer Ali Adler had this to say in an interview with EW:
“Our prototype is the way the president is seen on Veep. It’s certainly [inspired by] so much of what Julia-Louis Dreyfus’ character goes through. Ultimately, this is a show about Supergirl and we really want to see it through her lens.”
In case you're not familiar with the Veep reference, in that show the President of the U.S. is never really shown, but characters interact with him in the series. So Superman will have a presence, but it doesn't sound like we'll ever see him really be a major part of the show. I think many of us figured that would be the case, but there's our confirmation.
A brand-new #Supergirl preview to save your day.
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— Supergirl (@supergirlcbs) July 8, 2015SUPERGIRL is an action-adventure drama based on the DC Comics character Kara Zor-El (Melissa Benoist), Superman’s (Kal-El) cousin who, after 12 years of keeping her powers a secret on Earth, decides to finally embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be. Twelve-year-old Kara escaped the doomed planet Krypton with her parents’ help at the same time as the infant Kal-El. Protected and raised on Earth by her foster family, the Danvers, Kara grew up in the shadow of her foster sister, Alex (Chyler Leigh), and learned to conceal the phenomenal powers she shares with her famous cousin in order to keep her identity a secret. Years later at 24, Kara lives in National City assisting media mogul and fierce taskmaster Cat Grant (Golden Globe Award winner Calista Flockhart), who just hired the Daily Planet’s former photographer, James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks), as her new art director. However, Kara’s days of keeping her talents a secret are over when Hank Henshaw (David Harewood), head of a super-secret agency where her sister also works, enlists her to help them protect the citizens of National City from sinister threats. Though Kara will need to find a way to manage her newfound empowerment with her very human relationships, her heart soars as she takes to the skies as Supergirl to fight crime.