NBC picks up a Batman knockoff “The Cape”

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  • May 15, 2010 at 7:13 am #92409
    FlakBait
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    Wow……what originality…..

    The Cape is a one-hour drama series starring David Lyons (ER) as Vince Faraday, an honest cop on a corrupt police force, who finds himself framed for a series of murders and presumed dead. He is forced into hiding, leaving behind his wife, Dana (Jennifer Ferrin, Life on Mars) and son, Trip (Ryan Wynott, Flash Forward). Fueled by a desire to reunite with his family and to battle the criminal forces that have overtaken Palm City, Faraday becomes The Cape his son’s favorite comic book superhero—and takes the law into his own hands. Rounding out the cast are James Frain (The Tudors) as billionaire Peter Fleming—The Cape’s nemesis—who moonlights as the twisted killer: Chess; Keith David (Death at a Funeral) as Max Malini, the ringleader of a circus gang of bank robbers who mentors Vince Faraday and trains him to be The Cape; Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) as Orwell, an investigative blogger who wages war on crime and corruption in Palm City; and Dorian Missick (Six Degrees) as Marty Voyt, a former police detective and friend to Faraday.

    http://scifiwire.com/2010/05/heroes-is-dead-but-nbc-pi.php

    May 15, 2010 at 1:47 pm #92410
    Matthew Lim
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    FlakBait wrote:

    Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) as Orwell, an investigative blogger who wages war on crime and corruption in Palm City

    Upholding justice by taking fish-lipped self portraits, tweeting about what she had for lunch, and sharing videos of guys getting whacked in the nuts!

    May 15, 2010 at 6:22 pm #92415
    FlakBait
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    KissTheManiac wrote:

    FlakBait wrote:

    Summer Glau (Firefly, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) as Orwell, an investigative blogger who wages war on crime and corruption in Palm City

    Upholding justice by taking fish-lipped self portraits, tweeting about what she had for lunch, and sharing videos of guys getting whacked in the nuts!

    Here’s the first still released……look at how intensely she’s blogging!!! That is some SERIOUS crime fighting right there!!

    😛

    May 16, 2010 at 7:02 am #92424
    Matthew Lim
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    FlakBait wrote:

    Here’s the first still released……look at how intensely she’s blogging!!! That is some SERIOUS crime fighting right there!!

    😛

    May 17, 2010 at 11:25 am #92468
    Zespara Alathar
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    Keith David did the voice of Goliath on Gargoyles way back when in the 90s. At least he’ll sound good! 🙂

    Z

    May 17, 2010 at 6:40 pm #92470
    Ataski
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    Goliath nothing. It’s Captain Fricken Anderson from Mass Effect. Man can headbutt Turians.

    He’s also the Cat in Coraline, and was Apollo in Hercules and Xena. Man gets around.

    May 18, 2010 at 7:42 am #92480
    Jonathan Schneider
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    way back when in the 90s.

    …

    Keith David co-starred opposite Kurt Russel in John Carpenter’s “The Thing” in the early ’80s… So so cool ! And then he co-starred opposite Rowdy Roddy Piper in Carpenter’s “They Live” a few years later. That movie was also unusually interesting and cool for its genre and budget. I get a big kick out of his every appearance (or even non-appearance, such as his voice roles — he narrates some nature programs). He was probably my favorite thing about “There’s Something About Mary”, but, only because (party because) of how incongruous his role seems when not being supremely cool as a tough motha in a horror/action/sci-fi pic, and also because of how strong his personality can be even when playing a character so much sunnier than the tough-guys that he is so good at.

    I didn’t realize he had a role in “Coraline”… One more reason I must see that eventually. And I didn’t notice he had a role in “Death at a Funeral” until his name popped up in this thread. Maybe I’ll see that one just for him too. Thanks for helping me discover this, Zespara and Ataski.

    Every sci-fi fan should see John Carpenter’s The Thing. So good… It was also Wilford Brimley’s best appearance ever.

    May 19, 2010 at 1:36 pm #92506
    FlakBait
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    trailer available here
    http://www.spinoffonline.com/2010/05/18/preview-the-cape-may-not-be-as-bad-as-you-imagined/

    May 19, 2010 at 4:39 pm #92513
    fasola
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    Hey checking that trailer, I also noticed the one for “No Ordinary Family”. It looks good enough.

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