The CW’s Gotham Knights pilot taps a Pacific Rim: Uprising star as one of the show’s new leading characters. Pilot season is underway, which means The CW is doing its annual tradition of expanding its DC TV line-up for the 2022-23 TV season. This year, the network is developing another Batman-related project, Gotham Knights, from Batwoman writers and producers. Despite their involvement, Gotham Knights is not being eyed as a Batwoman spinoff series, nor will it have any ties to the upcoming video game of the same name.

Gotham Knights will focus on Bruce Wayne’s adopted son having to form a new band of unexpected heroes. While teaming up with the children of Batman’s enemies, the new league of vigilantes will become Gotham City’s new protectors as they get framed for the death of the Dark Knight. Chad Fiveash, James Stoteraux, and Natalie Abrams wrote the pilot, with Fiveash and Stoteraux attached as executive producers and Abrams as a co-executive producer. Danny Canon of Gotham and Pennyworth fame will helm Gotham Knights episode 1, which has been busy with casting its new leads.

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As Gotham Knights is getting ready to start production in Toronto, Canada this month, another cast member has been added to the project. Deadline reports that Pacific Rim: Uprising and Foursome star Rahart Adams has boarded the DC drama as a series regular. Adams, whose resume also includes House Husbands, Every Witch Way, and Nowhere Boys, will play a new character named Brody, who Warner Bros. TV and The CW describe as follows:

Confident and charismatic, Brody’s got the brains and the looks — and he knows it. However, his entitled attitude covers his insecurity and jealousy of anyone who rivals him.

With Adams’ addition, the Gotham Knights cast is starting to really shape up as they head into filming. The pilot also stars Oscar Morgan as Turner Hayes, Olivia Rose Keegan as Duela, Navia Robinson as Carrie Kelley, Tyler DiChiara as Cullen Bow, and Fallon Smythe as Harper Row. Prior to Adams’ casting, Gotham Knights also tapped Supernatural veteran Misha Collins as DC Comics’ Harvey Dent/Two-Face, while Anna Lore is set to play Stephanie Brown, better known as Spoiler. It remains to be seen if The CW project is adding any additional series regulars before episode 1 starts shooting.

So far, Adams’ Brody is the only original character to have been added to the main cast. However, it wouldn’t be shocking if Gotham Knights is pulling a classic Arrowverse move by hiding their real identity while using a placeholder name. Despite not being entirely set in the Arrowverse, Gotham Knights is a Greg Berlanti production, after all, meaning it wouldn’t be unheard of if Brody turns out to be a DC player. One of the last times the Arrowverse did it was with Superman & Lois’ The Stranger, who turned out to be John Henry Irons/Steel instead of a Lex Luthor doppelgänger. Once Gotham Knights commence principal photography, time will tell if Adams’ Brody is more than he appears to be.

Source: Deadline

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