As Arrow is set to say goodbye, a new hero is heading to the CW. The CW has ordered Batwoman to series. The Gotham City vigilante, played by Orange Is the New Black‘s Ruby Rose, made her debut in last fall’s multi-part Arrowverse crossover event, which was titled “Elseworlds.”
It was one of three series greenlit at The CW late Tuesday, joining Riverdale spinoff Katy Keene and Nancy Drew. The Batwoman series will follow Kate Kane, who is the second incarnation of the Batwoman character in DC Comics lore, introduced in 2006 and described as
“an out lesbian and highly trained street fighter… primed to snuff out the failing city’s criminal resurgence.”
The cast also includes Dougray Scott (Snatch, Hemlock Grove) as Kate Kane’s dad, Jacob Kane, Rachel Skarsten (Reign) as Alice, the Joker-esque leader of the Wonderland Gang; Meagan Tandy (Teen Wolf) as military academy graduate Sophie Moore; Camrus Johnson (Marvel’s Luke Cage) as Lucius Fox’s son, Luke; and Nicole Kang (YOU) as Kate’s step-sister, Mary Hamilton.
Batwoman will premiere this fall.
