DC's Stargirl Live-Action Series

[TurtleTitan97]

Geoff Johns and Greg Berlanti will exec produce the live-action series, which marks the sixth overall for DC Universe.
DC Universe is making a big splash at San Diego Comic-Con.
The forthcoming subscription video on demand platform opened the confab with a first look at its scripted originals with Titans and on Thursday afternoon unveiled its sixth overall series: a live-action Stargirl.
Geoff Johns, who revealed the news during his spotlight panel, will write and exec produce the 13-episode scripted original series via his Mad Ghost Productions banner. The drama hails from Warner Bros. Television and Greg Berlanti's studio-based Berlanti Productions, with Sarah Schechter also serving as an exec producer. The series will bow in 2019.
Stargirl follows high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore who inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past. The series reimagines Stargirl and the very first superhero team, the Justice Society of America, in a fun, exciting and unpredictable series.

Johns and Lee Moder created the character, who was named after the former's sister, Courtney, who died in the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800. The character made her first appearance in July 1999's Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. #1.

All told, Stargirl is DC Universe's sixth overall series. The platform, which launches in August, previously announced live-action straight-to-series orders for Swamp Thing; Doom Patrol; Superman prequel Metropolis; Titans; and a pair of animated series from Warner Bros. Animation, Harley Quinn and Young Justice: Outsiders.
With Stargirl, Berlanti has padded his TV record to 15 live-action scripted series — all dramas. Of those, 10 are on broadcast: The CW's All American, Arrow, Black Lightning, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Riverdale and Supergirl; NBC's Blindspot; CBS' God Friended Me and The Red Line; plus one at Netflix, The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina; Lifetime's You; and DC Universe's Titans and Doom Patrol. Berlanti also stands to add yet another DC superhero drama next season as The CW announced plans to bring Batwoman to the small screen with the prolific producer and writer Caroline Dries.

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[Raph's Girl]

Wonder if they'll get the actress who played her in Legends of Tomorrow?

[Andrew NDB]

Johns and Lee Moder created the character, who was named after the former's sister, Courtney, who died in the 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800.

Jesus, and Geoff "The Hackman" Johns makes sure and remind us of that each and every time Stargirl has been trotted out, ever.

Nobody cares about her. Stop trying to guilt us into liking her. If I name a new character after my dead grandmother that doesn't add some kind of prestige.

[CharmedSerenity]

Finally a live-action DC series with a heroine I like, wonder who'd be cast as her family (especially Pat) though.

[Krutch]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Jesus, and Geoff "The Hackman" Johns makes sure and remind us of that each and every time Stargirl has been trotted out, ever.

Did Geoff write that press release?

I never really got the appeal of Star Girl, though I did like her small chat with Chloe about family in Smallville. Other than that.... I just don't care. My fandom with DC has taken a serious beating over the last few years.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Krutch

Did Geoff write that press release?

Whether he did or didn't, you can be damn sure he made sure it was in there. It's always in every Stargirl press release since forever, whether it was for JSA or her failed ongoing or specials. I bet there's even Smallville press releases about her with that in there, too.

*Edit: There IS! http://www.kryptonsite.com/geoff-joh...te-justice.htm

[Krutch]

Haha I guess. Just seems like one of those "fun facts" that press junkets like to throw in that required the least amount of research.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Krutch

Haha I guess. Just seems like one of those "fun facts" that press junkets like to throw in that required the least amount of research.

It's just super annoying. Like her whole worth as a character is boiled down and defined by "Geoff Johns named her after his dead sister." wtf is that? Why is that a thing?

[TurtleTitan97]

I find it touching, honestly.

Can't wait for the premiere episode. As a JSA fan I think the show looks good so far.

[TurtleTitan97]

[Autbot_Benz]

Originally Posted by TurtleTitan97

https://i.redd.it/hmtnda6mm1q41.jpg

Man I was hoping Wildcat was gonna be the Ted Grant version but its his goddaughter instead Yolanda Montez

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard who hates fun, but that poster looks like $hit.

[Sumac]

Poster looks cheap.

[Allio]

Looks as low budget as all the other arrowverse shows

[Andrew NDB]

Is that a fat, black female Dr. Midnite?

[Leo656]

Bet you $50 she's gay.

I really hate live-action comic book adaptations. It's official. It used to just be I hated some of them but at this point there's like exactly 4 live-action movies or TV shows based on comics that don't make me f*cking vomit.

Junk food for the functionally illiterate. Trash, all of it.

Don't mind me I'm having a bad day.

[TurtleTitan97]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Is that a fat, black female Dr. Midnite?

She's based on a pre-existing character: https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Elizabeth_Chapel_(New_Earth)

Not sure what the issue is when its been known since the show's announcement that we going to be seeing a JSA featuring legacy heroes.

[Leo656]

Looks like she had a cup of coffee and then got put away so the actual character could come back. Totally deserving of a spot on a TV show instead of the Dr. Mid-Night everyone knows.

I wish they'd just be honest about the "Too Many Honkies And Dudes" checklist. I'd respect their nonsense at least a little if they would just say, "We have quotas to meet, that's why we make these decisions."

Even a drunk off-duty cop will tell you to a man that they bust people for no reason to make the numbers. But a TV or movie producer will tell you that they don't make decisions based on quotas. Pretty laughable.

I'd love a proper JSA show with the traditional characters before we jump right to the "legacies", but... Too Many White Dudes, so can't have it.

But it's whatever, live-action comic adaptations are trash so... I'm mostly just shaking my head at the disingenuous nature of their whole "process".

[TurtleTitan97]

Originally Posted by Leo656

Totally deserving of a spot on a TV show instead of the Dr. Mid-Night everyone knows.

Which would be who, exactly? There's been like 3 of them so far.