Supergirl Casts Cat Grant's Son
Levi Miller, who will play the title character in Warner Bros.' big-screen Peter Pan origin [...]
Levi Miller, who will play the title character in Warner Bros.' big-screen Peter Pan origin story Pan, has been cast as Cat Grant's son Carter in Supergirl, TVLine reports:
Per the official character description, 12-year-old Carter is "sensitive and shy" and "couldn't be more different from his mom." As Melissa Benoist's Kara babysits her boss's son and gets to know him better, "Carter finally opens up to her — revealing his true feelings for Supergirl."
The report further stresses that the character is "independent of" Cat's son from the comics.
In the comics, Cat's son was named Adam. He was born from a previous relationship with a cold, controlling and wealthy man named Joe Morgan.
Not really a "bad seed," many readers still didn't particularly like Adam, who was written as...well, a little kid. After overhearing Superman lecture his father about sharing custody with Cat, Adam was scared of the Man of Steel. He also didn't care for Cat's on-again, off-again boyfriend Jose "Gangbuster" Delgado, a fan favorite.
Cat's relationship with Adam was often bumpy as well; in his early appearances, Morgan had sole custody since Cat's drinking and promiscuity had opened the door for his vicious lawyers to have her labeled an unfit mother. When he later decides to share custody with her, subplots that she was distant, negligent or drunk occasionally continued to come up.
It's hard to say whether any of that will come into play; in the TV pilot, Cat certainly feels more like Joe Morgan than she does the Cat Grant of the early comics.
What's arguably more nerve-wracking is Adam's final fate: he died at the hands of Winslow Schott, the Toyman. Winslow (here called "Winn") is one of the male leads in the Supergirl pilot.
