Now she fights crime a different way, a master of the cyber-realms and trainer to heroes. Joining her in this struggle: Oracle, once Batman’s protégé, Batgirl, she was caught in the crossfire of the war between Batman and Joker. Half metahuman, she has taken up her father’s mantle and fights to protect the innocent and helpless. Their passion left behind something extraordinary: a daughter, Huntress.
“Legend tells of a caped crusader, Batman, guardian of New Gotham, and his one true love, Catwoman, the queen of the criminal underworld. As the voiceover by Wayne butler Alfred Pennyworth (Ian Abercrombie) before every episode explained: In the comics, Dinah Lance was Black Canary, but-in addition to the change of making Helena a meta and also going the comic Earth-2 route of her being the daughter of Selina Kyle (Catwoman) and Bruce Wayne (Batman)- The WB’s Birds of Prey made Dinah a telepathic, telekinetic meta, later revealing that her mother Carolyn (Lori Loughlin, who only now as a convicted felon has the street cred to pull off the leather jacket she wore in the series) was the real Black Canary. The series’ heroic line-up consisted of Oracle/Barbara Gordon fka Batgirl (Dina Meyer), Huntress/Helena Kyle (Ashley Scott), and Dinah Redmond/Lance (Rachel Skarsten, who was actually 16 years old when she was cast). While Smallville refered to metahumans as “freaks” until about its fifth season, Brids of Prey referred to them as “metas” from the very beginning. Set in the understandably darker New Gotham City-a revamped version of the typical Batman playground of Gotham City, due to an earthquake that destroyed all of Old Gotham and sent it underground-two of its lead characters were already accomplished superheroes who were comfortable with that role and the third character was the fish out of water who wanted to join in on that superhero lifestyle. It was also more interested in actually being a comic-book show, in its own canon-breaking way. So I learned a huge amount on that show.”īirds of Prey was also a far darker approach to the loose adaptation of DC Comics source material than Smallville. Like a great many other feature writers, I did not have a real understanding of the way that the beast had to be fed in order for that process to work optimally creatively. Say you’ve got about nine months to make about 22 hours of filmed entertainment, versus about maybe two years to make two hours of filmed entertainment. “ Birds of Prey was a project that I loved from a comic book perspective, but I also found that I did not understand or appreciate the difference in sheer volume between network television and movies. Of her experience on Birds of Prey-the first project she’s credited for on IMDB, having worked on unproduced feature film assignment work prior-Kalogridis told The Hollywood Reporter:
She was fired from the show after the original pilot was shot but remained credited as an executive producer. Instead of involving Smallville showrunners Al Gough, Miles Millar or anyone who wrote for Smallville at all, it was developed by Laeta Kalogridis (now known for Shutter Island, Alita: Battle Angel and Altered Carbon). Instead, Smallville executive producers Mike Tollin, Brian Robbins, and Joe Davola followed up Smallville with Birds of Prey. Today, this would be grounds for a connected spin-off.
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Telling the story of a young Clark Kent (Tom Welling)-who started off as best friends with a pre-heel-turn Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum)- Smallvillepremiered to 8.4 million viewers, setting the record for the network’s highest-rated series debut ever.
In the fall of 2001, The WB had a hit on its hands with the debut of its superhero origin series, Smallville.
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