The CW is reportedly planning to add to their already DC Comics-heavy lineup with a Hawkgirl spinoff.
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Update (June 22): Actress Ciara Renée has denied the rumors of the Hawkgirl project on Twitter:
Srry to disappoint, but the rumors are false. No #Hawkgirl solo show! Thanx for all the love though! Even more excited to start #DCLOT now!
— Ciara Renée (@CiaraRenee8) June 22, 2015
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Original story (June 21): According to a report by SpoilerTV, the Hawkgirl series will star Ciara Renée, who will play Kendra Saunders/Hawkgirl in the upcoming Arrow/The Flash spinoff, Legends of Tomorrow.
The potential Hawkgirl series is apparently in “very early stages of development,” but if the network decides to go ahead with it, like Legends of Tomorrow, it is expected to bypass the pilot stage with a series order.
Renée had a cameo in The Flash‘s season 1 finale as a citizen looking up at the singularity filling the sky of Central City. We have since seen her in the trailer for Legends of Tomorrow, in which her character is described as “A girl with wings and a past lives complex.”
Legends of Tomorrow, which will air at mid-season of the 2015-16 television season, will feature a collection of heroes and villains, both established and new, to take on the immortal Vandal Savage. The logline for the series reads:
“When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs legends. Having seen the future, one he will desperately try to prevent from happening, time-traveling rogue Rip Hunter is tasked with assembling a disparate group of both heroes and villains to confront an unstoppable threat — one in which not only is the planet at stake, but all of time itself. Can this ragtag team defeat an immortal threat unlike anything they have ever known?”
The report does not indicate when the Hawkgirl series is expected to take place, though if the series is still in very early stages of development, we’d have to assume it would take place following the events of Legends of Tomorrow.
Then again, according to Victor Garber, Legends may not only have a limited run, so Renée’s role in potential subsequent seasons of Legends would also come into question.
Also significant, Hawkgirl would be a second superhero series featuring a female protagonist, after CBS’ Supergirl, on network television.