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Blast from the past!

http://tvline.com/2015/02/27/supergirl-cbs-helen-slater-dean-cain-tv-series-cast/

How’s this for super-meta casting: Helen Slater and Dean Cain have landed guest-starring roles on CBS’s Supergirl, TVLine has learned.

Slater, of course, played Kara on the big screen in 1984’s Supergirl, while Cain starred as the Man of Steel in ABC’s Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. And both guest-starred on the WB/CW Superman drama Smallville, Slater in the role of Clark/Kal-El’s Krypton mom Lara, and Cain as the immortal Dr. Curtis Knox.

Details on who the pair will be playing in the pilot are being kept under lock and key (but feel free to speculate away in the comments).

As previously reported, Laura Benanti (Nashville) will play Kara’s birth mother, Alura Zor-El, who continues to guide her daughter across space and time.

 

[stuminus3]

Oh snap Helen Slater! That's awesome.

 

[Volimar]

I love when shows like this give nods to their predecessors.

 

[NYCmetsfan]

God's not dead

 

[strafer]

you should have gone with; Superman and Supergirl joins Supergirl

 

[Effect]

If they're cast together and are meant to appear together I can see the following.

- Kara's adoptive parents.
- Jor-El and Lara in flashbacks to Krypton
- Jonathan and Martha Kent

They did the same thing on the Flash where John Wesley Shipp who played the Flash in the 90s TV series was casted as Barry Allen/Flash's father in the new series. He's appeared several times now in that role.

 

[entremet]

Supergirl 1984 was so so bad.

 

[NotTheGuyYouKill]

Ha, that's pretty cool.

 

[bjork]

I liked Dean Cain as Superman, I'm glad to see him playing something other than a creep. Seems every time I catch him in a movie or something, he's a murderer or in jail or something.

 

[anaron]

soooooo, so happy they're including Helen. I was worried and disappointed that she would be left out. feels complete now

lol at Dean Cain tho

 

[Suite Pee]

Flash's dad in the new show was the old Flash. I imagine it might be something similar here.

 

[Slayven]

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

 

[GrayFoxPL]

I liked Dean Cain as Superman, I'm glad to see him playing something other than a creep. Seems every time I catch him in a movie or something, he's a murderer or in jail or something.

Hey, life got to Man of Steel. Real shit.

 

[anaron]

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

I know

surprised that Berlanti and Adler of all people are including him

 

[entremet]

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

He alway was conservative. He just became more vocal about it.

 

[BronsonLee]

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

Nah man, he ignored all that religious shit and kept being a fucking boss

 

[anaron]

Flash's dad in the new show was the old Flash. I imagine it might be something similar here.

she's probably Kara's foster mom because Laura Benanti is Alura

 

[Slayven]

He alway was conservative. He just became more vocal about it.

IF Lorenzo Lamos let me down I don't know what I will do.

 

[Camwi]

Dean Cain had better be playing a villianous, athiest asshole.

 

[Effect]

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

I remember he came up in a topic about Sorbo sometime last year but I thought the general feeling was that while he's conservative he's not been stupid the way Sorbo has been. Sorbo who made some racist comments even. He also didn't go all religious on people. That he's been pretty calm and decent in his interactions with people. I didn't remember hearing any negatives about him. Unless that's wrong.

 

[Slayven]

Dean Cain had better be playing a villianous, athiest asshole.

Considering his views he can play Bloodsport.

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

The last time I saw Dean Cain on television it was in an episode of "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23".

 

[Camwi]

Considering his views he can play Bloodsport.

That sounds even better.

 

[Violence Jack]

My earliest crush.

 

[jorgeton]

Helen Slater??

Next up a Faye Dunaway cameo. CBS pls.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

This.

 

[Enzom21]

Hopefully Dean Cain's part is small and temporary.

 

[Jokergrin]

Best supes ever

 

[Baron von Loathsome]

Krypton's not dead, it's surely alive

 

[Jarrod38]

An word on Teri Hatcher?

 

[Liquidsnake]

I liked Dean Cain as Superman, I'm glad to see him playing something other than a creep. Seems every time I catch him in a movie or something, he's a murderer or in jail or something.

Out of Time. He was a creep.

 

[Volimar]

An word on Teri Hatcher?

I remember that there were rumors that she was suppose to cameo as the president in Man of Steel, but it fell through.

 

[Escape Goat]

[IMGhttp://dtsft.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/supermandeancain.jpg[/IMG]

Best supes ever

Is being wrong your super power?

 

[jmood88]

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

Yeah, I hated when I found that out about him.

 

[Lionel Mandrake]

Dean fucking Cain.

 

[karmaforgotme]

Helen Slater will always be The Legend of Billie Jean to me.

 

[jelly]

Dean Cain :/

 

[ReAxion]

 

[Volimar]

Yeah, I hated when I found that out about him.

Adam Baldwin

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Best live action Clark Kent sure but Superman? Naaaah.

Definitely curious how they're going to handle this with CBS.

 

[Poodlestrike]

Best live action Clark Kent sure but Superman? Naaaah.

Definitely curious how they're going to handle this with CBS.

Best live action Clark Kent is 100% Christopher Reeves, no question.

 

[Tangeroo]

Best supes ever

Factually incorrect.

 

[jrush64]

Adam Baldwin

Agreed. I loved him on Chuck though. Agent Casey.

 

[Shamrock7r]

Awesome. Loved Lois and Clark. Helen Slater was a crush of mine back in the day. Billy Jean =O

It's kinda funny, these days Superman in comics is more often drawn looking closer to Dean Cain than other actors who played the role.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

This show is shaping up to be either something special or an epic trainwreck.

I'm hoping the former...

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

Dean Cain!

Use to love Dean Cain, until he went Kevin Sorbo Right Wing crazy

Oh... That's disappointing.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Best live action Clark Kent is 100% Christopher Reeves, no question.

I hated the Metropolis clown act, Clark wasn't a person he was a caricature.

Dean Cain>George Reeves>>Christopher Reeve

Reeve is the best Superman though.

 

[Transhuman]

I love when shows like this give nods to their predecessors.

Yeah, but I really hope they both die in the pilot.

 

[Tookay]

Heaven forbid 1% of Hollywood actors be conservative or Christian.

 

[Replicant]

Dean Cain was the worst Superman and Clark Kent.