{"id":106332,"date":"2018-12-13T13:23:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=106332"},"modified":"2018-12-13T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T13:23:13","slug":"geoff-johns-dc-universe-stargirl-series-adds-joel-mchale-as-starman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/geoff-johns-dc-universe-stargirl-series-adds-joel-mchale-as-starman\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Johns&#8217; DC Universe Stargirl series adds Joel McHale as Starman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff Johns&#8217; upcoming\u00a0Stargirl series for DC Universe has found its Starman in the form of\u00a0<em><strong>Community<\/strong><\/em>&#8216;s Joel McHale, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2018\/tv\/news\/joel-mchale-starman-dc-universe-stargirl-exclusive-1203087415\/\">Variety<\/a>. He joins Brec Bassinger as Stargirl and Anjelika Washington in an undisclosed role.<\/p>\n<p>The character of Starman is described as &#8220;a courageous and confident superhero.&#8221; He is &#8220;a member of the Justice Society of America. He wields a mysterious anti-gravity weapon called the cosmic staff and has a longtime sidekick named Stripesy, who is better known as Courtney Whitmore\u2019s stepfather, Pat Dugan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johns is executive producing the series alongside Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. Warner Bros is producing, and Johns is writing the pilot episode. The series will air on subscription streaming service DC Universe.<\/p>\n<p>The following is the show\u2019s official description of the character of Stargirl: \u201cCourtney Whitmore (aka Stargirl) is smart, athletic and above all else kind. This high school teenager\u2019s seemingly perfect life hits a major speedbump when her mother gets married and her new family moves from Los Angeles, California to Blue Valley, Nebraska.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStruggling to adapt to a new school, make new friends and deal with a new step-family, Courtney discovers her step-father has a secret; he used to be the sidekick to a superhero. \u201cBorrowing\u201d the long-lost hero\u2019s cosmic staff, Courtney becomes the unlikely inspiration for an entirely new generation of superheroes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s the show\u2019s synopsis as a whole:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>STARGIRL<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0follows high school sophomore Courtney Whitmore as she inspires an unlikely group of young heroes to stop the villains of the past. This new drama reimagines Stargirl and the very first superhero team, the Justice Society of America, in an unpredictable series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Stargirl\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>doesn\u2019t yet have an airdate. Get all the latest superhero news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joel McHale has joined the cast of Stargirl as Starman <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":106333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,207],"tags":[6273],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/joel-mchale.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}