"Smallville" star Kristin Kreuk is returning to the CW -- and once again, she'll be hanging around with a superhero.

Kreuk -- who played Lana Lang on the CW's take on the Superman myth -- has landed the female lead in the network's upcoming "Beauty and the Beast" pilot.

Kreuk will play Catherine, an NYPD homicide detective who witnessed her mother's murder nine years earlier, and eventually tracks down the Beast who avenged her mother's death by killing her murderers. Catherine then helps the Beast protect his superhero identity.

Loosely based on the CBS series starring Ron Perlman and Linda Hamilton, the CW's "Beast" pilot is written and executive produced by Jennifer Levin ("Without a Trace," "Felicity") and Sherri Cooper ("Brothers and Sisters"), with Paul J. Witt, C. Anthony Thomas, Ron Koslow and Bill Haber also executive-producing. CBS Television Studios is producing.

《超人前傳》的克斯汀·克魯克(Kristin Kreuk)回歸CW電視網(wǎng)，這次還是以名正言順的“美女”身份。

這位加拿大女演員為人熟知是出演了近10年Lana Lang一角在《超人前傳》中，目前她正式被欽定主演面向年輕群體的電視網(wǎng)CW新劇《美女與野獸》。這個項目并不完全相同于80年代CBS同名劇集（這部劇集曾經(jīng)在《正大劇場》播出過，名字是《俠膽雄獅》），這版是一個扭曲的現(xiàn)代浪漫愛情故事。

詹妮弗·萊文(Jennifer Levin)和雪莉·庫珀(Sherri Cooper)在為劇集撰寫首播集劇本的同時還會和保羅·喬恩格·威特(Paul J.Witt)、C·安東尼·托馬斯(C.Anthony Thomas)、朗·科斯洛(Ron Koslow)、比爾·哈勃(Bill Haber)出任執(zhí)行制片人。加里·弗萊德(Gary Fleder)被邀請執(zhí)導(dǎo)首播集。