Supergirl Has Found Her Superman



Welcome to the 500th post on this blog!  Okay, now that I've got that out of the way, let's get on with it...

Now that Supergirl is over at the CW, they've been making some changes to the show that should help grow it's audience.  One of the most notable changes is that they've decided to actually have Superman show up on the program, and not just as a blur or a shot of his back, but as an actual character interacting with Kara.  The question that they needed to ask themselves after deciding this was "Who's going to play him?"  It now seems that we've got our answer.  The show recently announced that they have hire Tyler Hoechlin to play the Man of Steel.  If you don't know who Hoechlin is, he's been a star on the television show Teen Wolf and has also appeared in the movies Everybody Wants Some!, Hall Pass, and Solstice.  He also appeared opposite Tom Hanks in the comic book inspired movie Road to Perdition.

Andrew Kreisberg, who is the executive producer for pretty much every DC television show out there, had this to say about the new hire:

"Greg Berlanti and I have wanted to work with Tyler for ages, so this worked out perfectly because Tyler is Superman.  We are so thrilled and humbled to add another amazing actor to the legacy of this iconic character.  For us, Superman is more of an idea than it is a personification of the character, so we're more than happy to have him backlit.  we're perfectly happy to have him swoop in, save Kara in Episode Three, because the real heart of the story is that she then kicks Reactron's butt.  She's the one that takes him down, and that's what much more important for us.  So it's not like we've been asking for more Superman or can we do it like this or can we have him in this.  For us, we're perfectly happy with the amount of Superman that we've had because it's the exact amount that we've asked for."

You'll be able to see Hoechlin as Superman in the season premier of Supergirl when it airs for the first time on The CW.  Supergirl will air on Monday nights at 8 pm.