“Smallville” alumna Kristin Kreuk is set to star in The CW pilot “Beauty and the Beast,” a re-imagining that Deadline reports to be loosely based on the CBS series that ran in the late ’80s with Linda Hamilton and Ron Pearlman in the lead roles.

The re-do finds Kreuk playing beauty as a tough NYPD cop named Catherine who protects the identity of the man/beast vigilante—the victim of a military experiment gone bad—who avenged her mother’s murder nine years ago.

Kreuk is best known for her role as Clark Kent’s love interest Lana Lang on The CW’s “Smallville.” The Canadian stunner can also be seen in Shunji Iwai’s indie-pleaser Vampire with Rachael Leigh Cook, the less pleasing Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li and the hilarious comedy EuroTrip.