Castle

For the last 28 years, William Katt has been The Greatest American Hero. Ralph Hinkley was just trying to go about his business and be a good teacher, but an alien suit left to help rid the Earth of baddies turned him into a bumbling hero. Hinkley could have been cool and slick in that red suit, but that whole lack of an instruction manual made such hopes impossible.
There have been murmurings before about a new feature film -- 2008 was filled with them -- but they haven't gone anywhere. And now one fan's dream makes me wish they would. In a talk with IFC, Nathan Fillion said there was one superhero film he thinks he can handle, a redo of Gah. In his mind: "With the technology we have available today for effects, I'd say it's largely the same idea, the same story, but the suit would be able to »
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Many of us remember The Greatest American Hero television series that ran from 1981-83 and starred William Katt and Robert Culp. It was surprisingly clever and fun, despite ladling out heavy dollops of cheese at the same time. And if it ever gets a big screen resurrection — c'mon face it, sooner or later it's inevitable (i.e. last year, Stephen J Cannell, the series creator, confirmed that a feature film was in the works, with director Stephen Herek rumored as attached to direct) — Nathan Fillion (Castle) would like to play the lead role of Ralph Hinkley.
Fillion tells IFC that it's one superhero role he feels he could portray.

"There are so many superheroes out there, I feel like there's none left," he said. "But there is one I think I could handle, and that's a redo of 'The Greatest American Hero'."
In the original series, Ralph Hinkley »

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See a new sneak peek clip from ABC's "Castle," starring This one's from the upcoming "When the Bough Breaks" episode which airs on October 19th at 10 p.m. Et. The clip is called "Unusual Crimes." When viewers first met Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion), a famous mystery novelist and divorced father raising his teenage daughter (Molly Quinn as Alexis), while being kept grounded by his Broadway diva mother (Susan Sullivan as Martha Rodgers), he was creatively blocked. But when the NYPD questioned him in connection with a series of murders staged to imitate crime scenes from his books, Castle found inspiration in the form of Detective Kate Beckett (Stana Katic)... »

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