Earlier this year, CBS ordered “Supergirl” straight-to-series, allowing the project to by bypass the pilot stage. Now that the show officially has a network, casting is underway.
TVLine is reporting that CBS is currently casting two of the main roles in the “Supergirl” TV series: Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl and her older foster sister, Alexandra “Alex” Danvers. In the early Supergirl comics, Kara Zor-El adopted the civilian identity of Linda Danvers (or Linda Lee in some stories). In this series, Kara will apparently keep her first name in both of her incarnations.
Alexandra Danvers is a new addition to the Supergirl mythology… and it should be noted that her name does have “Lex” in it. Perhaps Alexandra is being positioned as Supergirl’s eventual adversary.
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The casting descriptions are reproduced below:
Kara Zor-El aka Kara Danvers:
As the series’ mythology goes, Kara at age 12 was sent from her dying home planet of Krypton to Earth, where she was taken in by the Danvers, a foster family who taught her to be careful with her extraordinary powers. After repressing said skills for more than a decade, Kara is forced to bust out her super moves in public during an unexpected disaster.
Energized by her heroism for the first time in her life, she begins embracing her abilities in the name of helping the people of her city, earning herself a super moniker along the way.
Alexandra “Alex” Danvers:
Kara’s gorgeous, brilliant, science-minded foster sister. Growing up, Alex was partly jealous of her sibling yet also fascinated by her abilities, prompting Alex to learn as much as she could about alien anthropology, sociology and culture. Today, Alex works for a secret government organization and, alongside her heroic sis, will face many challenges, both mundane and super.
The Supergirl pilot was created and written by Greg Berlanti (“The Flash,” “Arrow”) and Ali Adler (“No Ordinary Family”). The series will likely be on CBS’ Fall 2015 schedule.
