Spoiler alert: Anna Lore is playing Stephanie Brown on The CW’s Gotham Knights
It's a Spoiler to say who All American's Anna Lore is playing in the Gotham Knights pilot
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[The following contains information on a Spoiler casting for The CW’s Gotham Knights series.]
Back in December, The CW announced that it was developing a pilot called Gotham Knights, which would be a TV series from producer Greg Berlanti about Bruce Wayne’s adopted son working with the children of Batman villains to try and figure out who murdered the Dark Knight. In addition to Berlanti, the project comes from Batwoman writers Natalie Abrams, James Stoteraux, and Chad Fiveash (meaning they have some experience with a show about Batman that is also not about Batman at all).
In one bonus confusing detail, though, Gotham Knights is not related to Batwoman (and therefore disconnected from the larger Arrowverse/Beeboverse) and is also not related to the upcoming Gotham Knights video game (which is also about the Bat-family trying to figure out who murdered the Dark Knight).
Now, the network has made its first casting announcement for the pilot, but it’s a bit of a Spoiler to say much else… so consider this another Spoiler warning, because we’re going to be talking about Spoiler here—as in Stephanie Brown, a.k.a. Spoiler, a comic book character who was previously a Robin and a Batgirl before putting on a purple hood and coming up with a superhero name of her own.
Anna Lore, who previously appeared on The CW’s All American, will be playing Stephanie Brown in the Gotham Knights pilot, though this Variety story about the news doesn’t specifically say if she’ll be operating under the Spoiler name in the series. What it does say is that she has a penchant for sarcasm that is “matched only by her intellect” and that she was “raised on a steady diet of brain teasers and puzzles.” She also has a “less-than-perfect home life,” alluding to the fact that—spoiler alert, har har har—her father is a D-tier Batman villain known as the Cluemaster. His gimmick is that he commits crimes and… leaves clues behind. But the clues are not jokes or riddles, they’re just clues. You can see why he’s D-tier, right?
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A white comic book character played by a white actor in 2022? I’m pleasantly surprised.
I get it.
……Spoiler was Steph’s first code name. They just bumped her back into it in Rebirth, after removing her from existence in Nu52.
Can’t figure out if this bodes poorly for the renewal of Batwoman or not
It’s already confirmed for Season 4, I believe, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this means Steph’s not coming back to that show, despite her debut hinting that she’d come back as a regular eventually.
Yeah. I think Stephanie not returning for an episode in Season 3 season of Batwoman had to do with this show and they announced a few weeks ago Julia Pennyworth is going to be a part of this too and she hasn’t been seen in Batwoman since she abruptly left at the beginning of Season 2.
This articles usually have the picture of the actor in question, Sam of Barsanti.
Ahh more Batman related tv shows without a Batman. They really seem to know what they’re doing right?
There are a lot of popular and interesting characters in the varied Bat-comics who could support their own series. It’s a big canvas and a lot of its potential hasn’t been tapped. The weird thing is that this show is making up a new character to be Bruce’s adopted son when there are a good six existing characters who could fill that role.
DC has a massive roster of interesting characters and villains , and yet somehow they keep making shows about Batman adjacent characters ..hell they even retooled ‘Powerless’ to be more connected to Batman. I guess people keep watching them though .Personally if I could go another ten years without seeing another Gotham related show I’d be delighted.
Wait so her dad was basically the guy from The Snowman?
“ Stephanie Brown, a.k.a. Spoiler, a comic book character who was previously a Robin and a Batgirl before putting on a purple hood and coming up with a superhero name of her own.”Um, ACKTUALLY she was Spoiler first before her stints as Robin or Batgirl.
Can’t we just call the show itself “Spoiler Warning?”
I wish. I would completely unironically love it. Would watch every episode even if it was bad. Give me more joke/pun titles in media, Hollywood
His gimmick is that he commits crimes and… leaves clues behind. I guess that’s a little better than The Confessor who leaves behind detailed, signed notes admitting his crime with all the evidence neatly packaged in Ziploc bags.
And yet the Identity Killer continues to confound the British police. At this point, all they can do is wait for him to make a mistake.