The CW reveals its first cast members Fallon Smythe, Tyler DiChiara, Olivia Rose Keegan, Navia Robinson, and Oscar Morgan as regulars to its new Gotham Knights series.
Variety reports Smythe and DiChiara will star in the pilot. ComicBookMovie posts the addition of Keegan, Robinson and Morgan to the cast.
The pilot is going to be one hour long and will focus on the wake of Bruce Wayne’s murder.
A group composed of Batman’s son and children of Batman’s enemies work together in order to clear their names after getting framed for killing the Dark Knight.
As the group works to clear their name, they find themselves taking on the responsibility of keeping Gotham safe.
They, in effect, fill Batman’s shoes and become the new generation of Gotham Knights.
Gotham Knights Series For The CW Reveals Its First Cast Members
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Smythe is Harper Row, the streetsmart, forward uncensored speaking, undervalued, blue-haired bisexual. Harper is the fix-anything genius of an engineer. Ultimately, she aims to fix her and her brother, Cullen’s lives.
DiChiara is Cullen Row, the clever transgender brother with a knack at analyzing people and their actions. Cullen fights his battles with newfound self-worth after overcoming his childhood struggles with an abusive parent.
Keegan is Duela Dent, the unhinged survivor born in Arkham Asylum. Being an abandoned child, Duela survived growing up as a fighter and thief.
Robinson is Carrie Kelley. She is also known as the first female Robin. Carrie is idealistic and finds a way to do things the way she thinks should be done. As Batman’s sidekick she also follows strict house rules.
Morgan is Turner Hayes. Turner is an adopted son of a billionaire who never quite settled in with belonging to the society of the rich and privileged.
Gotham Knights Series For The CW Reveals Its First Cast Members
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Fallon Smythe has a broad experience as a voice actor then breached animation to television. Her previous works are from Most Likely to Murder, Rosalind Vile, Silently Suffering, Grown-ish, Lost in the West, I Didn’t Do it and S.H.R.I.E.K. The latter being her on-screen debut followed by other TV projects.
Tyler DiChiara is an award winning young actor for his performance in Relish as Kai back in 2019. His other works include The Virgin of Highland Park as Jordan and No Ordinary Man a documentary released in 2020.
Olivia Rose Keegan is a Daytime Emmy Award Winner for Outstanding Young Performer in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Claire Brady in Days of Our Lives. She is currently filming Daisy Jones & The Six for her role Caroline.
Navia Robinson is a Daytime Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Young Performer in a Children’s Program for her portrayal of Nia in Raven’s Home. She also has various other TV series and feature projects under her belt.
Oscar Morgan recently appeared in Death in Paradise as Jake Faircroft, Leandre in Peaceful, Danny in Warren, Leo in Millie Inbetween and many others.
Gotham Knights Series For The CW Reveals Its First Cast Members
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Natalie Abrams, James Stoteraux and Chad Fiveash will write the Gotham Knights pilot. Executive Producers of the show are Stoteraux and Fiveash together with Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter and David Madden of Berlanti Productions.
Danny Cannon is at the helm to direct and executive produce the pilot for Warner Bros. Television.
Although writers of “Gotham Knights” are also with Batwoman, it’s specifically not a spin-off of the Batwoman series. The series is also separate from the “Gotham Knights” upcoming video game.
It’d be interesting how Gotham comes to be when the Caped Crusader no longer is alive to save the day.
From the description, it seems that a new generation of heroes will answer the Bat signal.
