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| Indian/American actress Hannah Simone will play the 'Greatest American Hero.' |
IF YOU spent any time watching TV in the 1980s, you might remember an innocuous superhero show called The Greatest American Hero starring blonde-tressed William Katt.
ABC ordered a pilot for the reboot with a contemporary twist: An Indian American actress will play the lead role.
New Girl star Hannah Simone will play the hero with super powers.
Instead of being the high school teacher played by Katt, the newly imagined version focuses on 30-year-old Meera (Simone), a tequila and karaoke enthusiast who has fruitlessly spent her life searching to find meaning, something that does not please her traditional Indian/American family. But everything changes when other worldly aliens give her a super suit to be used to protect the planet.
Casting an Indian/American in the lead, gives opportunities to other Indian/American actors. Gia Sandhu (The Indian Detective) playing Mona, Meera’s sister and Zenobia Shroff (The Big Sick) who will play her mother.
Cheers alum George Wendt will be playing Meera’s boss, Bob Rice.
The prospective show is being overseen by Nahnatchka Khan, executive producer of Fresh Off the Boat, another show featuring an Asian/American family. Khan, who will executive produce alongside Rachna Fruchbom - also of Fresh Off the Boat - who is writing the pilot.
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