1985 year of the Heroine

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With Supergirl postponed for a year Warner bros was able to sway Christopher Reeve to reprise his role with a promise to produce his directorial debut and more creative control of his character Brooke Shields was cast as the role as Legend of Billie Jean cause conflicts in scheduling and hair. Faye Dunaway was brought on as Grace Manheim a crime lord who is possessing alien technology dequised as magic to mentally control Superman.
Mark Mclure & Annette O'Toole was brought on to reprise their role from Superman 3 and Eric Stolz was brought in as Quinn , Supergirls love intrest who is hiding his own secret

• Brooke Shields as Kara Zor-El / Linda Lee / Supergirl
• Faye Dunaway as Grace Manheim
• Christopher Reeve as Superman/ Clark Kent
• Peter O'Toole as Virl Dox
• Eric Stolz as Quinn/ Brainiac 5
• Mia Farrow as Alura In-Ze
• Brenda Vaccaro as Bianca
• Peter Cook as Nigel
• Simon Ward as Zor-El
• Marc McClure as Jimmy Olsen
• Annette O'Toole as Lana Lang
• Mary Lou Retton as Lucy Lane
• David Healy as Mr. Danvers
• Frank Welker as Tel-Var (voice)

 

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It wasn't long before production on Supergirl was underway at pinewood studios in England and having Brooke Shields in the lead ment her modeling sponsors came with her

 

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In 1983 Former Charles Angel Tayna Roberts had been cast in the lead role of Sheena however Visa permits to work on Location in Kenya was difficult and production was delayed by the time it was fixed there Star Tayna Roberts was cast in the James Bond film View to a kill and her manager had convinced her to choose being a Bond girl rather than staring in a silly jungle picture

 

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Above: Faye Dunaway villainous crime lady Grace Manheim

Above; Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) helps his cousin Linda Lee ( Brooke Shields) to adjust to her secret identity

Above: Peter O'Toole as Argo city's savior and outsider Virl Dox of Colu
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With two movies coming out around at the same time competing with Red Sonja, and one of them threatening to steal his lead actress film Producer Dino De Laurentiis decided to take a risk and reach for an R rating. Richard Fletcher the director suggested a someone with a background in horror could boost up the script. Meanwhile Dino came across an independent Horror movie called Evil Dead. The filmmakers were hoping to make an appointment with him for a potential sequel. Discussion with Marvel was made but their board was more interested in their production at Lucasfilms however the inexperienced writer/director had fondness for comics and so Sam Rami was hired as writer and second unit director of Red Sonja

 

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with a Supergirl movie being made at the same time as DC comics streamlining their universe with Crisis on Infinite Earths the choice of killing off Supergirl was vetoed Marv Wolfman and George Perez would switch Powergirl from Earth-2 and would later kill Donna troy to Set up Georges reboot of Wonder Woman post Crisis

 

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The 1985 issue where Supergirl joined the Teen titans to step out of her cousin's shadow