First Take
Adaptation
Nation
Watchmen
HBO
Alan Moore and Dave
Gibbons’ DC Comics title,
which was first adapted
as a 2009 Zack Snyder
film, is being reenvisioned
as a series from Lost co-
creator Damon Lindelof.
This new Watchmen fea-
tures Regina King and Don
Johnson, and is slated to
premiere in October.
Stumptown
ABC
Cobie Smulders stars as
Dex Parios on this upcom-
ing take on Greg Rucka and
Matthew Southworth’s
graphic-novel series. The
show (premiering Sept. 25
at 10 p.m.) centers on
Dex, a private investigator
Smulders has described
as “a woman who’s falling,
but still swinging.”
Stargirl
DC Universe
Originally created by DC
Comics’ Geoff Johns and
Lee Moder, Stargirl has
already been portrayed
by Britt Irvin on Smallville
and Sarah Grey on DC’s
Legends of Tomorrow.
Next year she’s getting
her own streaming series
starring former Nickel-
odeon star Brec Bassinger.
EW’s sneak peeks offer a glimpse at
Wainwright and Young reacting to Dion’s
impressive powers, including a run-in with
some cereal and a boat ride complete with
levitating fish. But in reality those reactions
were often the result of someone holding “a
silver ball” in their line of vision, or, in the
case of the lake scene, well, nothing. “They did
some really beautiful drawings of the fish in
the air,” Wainwright says of the effects team.
“So I had some concept art of what was actu-
ally happening, but all of our reactions in that
boat are to nothing. Those were the most fun
ones, because you are in complete control of
what you think you see.” Young also enjoyed
the imagination exercise: “It was really excit-
ing but challenging...but it was really cool to
make those faces.”
Between Raising Dion and her recent
gig on Shadowhunters, you might surmise
that Wainwright is a fan of the supernatural,
but “I don’t believe in ghosts,” she says with a
laugh. “Sure, maybe there are aliens out
there, but if something happened where
things just started floating around, or some-
one I knew started doing weird stuff that
I couldn’t explain with physics or gravity,
yeah, I’m running. I am not staying anywhere
near that situation.”
From top Ja’Siah Young; Young and
Wainwright; “He’s my best friend,”
Young says of working with Dion costar
Jason Ritter (with Wainwright)
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