Once the Crisis has completed…get ready for another superhero series on The CW! The network unveiled our first look for Stargirl, a new series about a high school student named Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger) who discovers that her stepfather was once the sidekick to a legendary superhero named Starman, and takes up the mantle herself.
https://youtu.be/Bp5Xv7QcgkM
The trailer shows off a bit of an origin story: Starman (played by Joel McHale) is mortally wounded in a fight, and his sidekick, Sylvester Pemberton (Luke Wilson) witnesses his last moments. Fast forward a couple of decades, and Pemberton and his family move from Los Angeles to Nebraska, with Starman’s cosmic staff carted along in the move. When Courtney discovers the staff, it chooses her to pick up up where Starman left off as Stargirl.
The series looks like reliable DC superhero action from The CW, mixed up with a bit of high school drama as Courtney figures out how to become a superhero. The show comes from the same folks who created the Arrowverse (which includes Arrow, The Flash, Batwoman, and others), and the character is set to briefly appear in this year’s massive crossover event series, “Crisis on Infinite Earths.”
The series was originally announced as an exclusive series for DC Universe, but earlier this fall, WarnerMedia announced that it would also air on The CW, which will run episodes a day after the show premieres online. The trailer didn’t reveal when the series would debut on DC Universe or The CW, only that it’ll premiere “Spring 2020.”
Wow. Another adolescent with superpowers. How original.
Have they changed the character’s names for the TV show? I thought Joel McHale’s Starman is Sylvester Pemberton (Star-Spangled Kid, later Skyman, in the comics) and that Luke Wilson is playing Pat Dugan, aka Stripesy.
High school drama, why is everything these days mixed with high school drama? Must we keep revisiting adolescent angst?
Now correct me if I am wrong. wasn’t there already a Stargirl in the arrowverse? wasn’t she in the Legends of Tomorrow show? I do remember one being in the show as part of the JSA during WW2 and then was sent back to King Arthur times in order to protect a piece of the Spear of Destiny. I hope they clear up that and not retcon the whole thing.
@2 – Talekyn: It’s Tor’s mistake, Wilson is playing Pat Dugan and McHale is playing Pemberton (but he’s Starman and not Star-Spangled Kid).
@@.-@ – Saren: That Stargirl is from the Arrowverse’s Earth-1, this one is from another Earth, which they haven’t specified yet.
@5 But they are not making it any secret that this Stargirl is also in the Arrowverse. Unless I read it wrong.
I’m curious to know whether the tone is more like Supergirl, or more like the other DC superhero shows.
@5 + 6 – Considering the ongoing Crisis, I expect that history in the Arrowverse is about to be massively rewritten come January.
I wonder if this could possibly be the first step into a setting of Grumpy Old Superheroes (JSA, rather than JLA, focussed) that a part of me would dearly love it to … certainly there are enough Superhero Movie/Cartoon/TV Veterans to make up a veritable super-team and surely some of them wouldn’t mind the work!
Also STARGIRL looks like she sprang fully-formed from the head of Geoff Johns – well done casting & costume departments!
@6 – Saren: She’s part of the Arrowverse’s Multiverse, probably, but not Earth-1.
@7 – Simka: Sounds more Supergirl.
@8 – kkozoriz: Maybe, or maybe not.
@9 – ED: I’d like that.
@9 – Why does the JSA have to be grumpy? Can’t we have some superheroes that aren’t all angsty and murderers for a change? If you want grumpy and angsty, there’s the JLA in the movies. I’d rather see a group of veteran heroes that people actually have a reason to look up to for a change.