{"id":472660,"date":"2026-06-11T21:23:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472660\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T21:23:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T21:23:11","slug":"supergirl-director-says-he-didnt-read-the-dc-masterpiece-that-inspired-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/472660\/","title":{"rendered":"Supergirl director says he didn’t read the DC masterpiece that inspired it"},"content":{"rendered":"

When DC Studios<\/a> first announced its Supergirl movie<\/a>, the official title was Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, a clear signal that the film from director Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya; Cruella) would adapt the critically acclaimed 2022 comic<\/a> from writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely. So even when that title changed to just Supergirl, fans assumed the film would still draw heavily from King’s galaxy-spanning revenge-fueled saga and, even more importantly, from Evely’s surreal, cosmic artwork<\/a>. <\/p>\n

As it turns out, that’s not exactly what happened. Instead, Gillespie tells Polygon he relied heavily on a script written by Ana Nogueira, a playwright and actor making her feature screenwriting debut with Supergirl and currently said to be working on upcoming Teen Titans<\/a> and Wonder Woman<\/a> movies for DCU.<\/p>\n

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\n Image: Tom King, Bilquis Evely\/DC Comics<\/p>\n

“I very deliberately started with the script that Ana wrote,” Gillespie says, “and I put together a lot of visuals around that coming from the script, trying to make something that I would be excited about and that had this grit and flavor of the Supergirl character, Kara.”<\/p>\n

If you’re a fan of the original comic, don’t throw your phone just yet: Gillespie confirms he did eventually look at the original comic for inspiration, and confirms that he borrowed some visuals from Evely’s work.<\/p>\n

“After that, I went back and visited Tom King’s Woman of Tomorrow and took some images from that,” he says, “but I didn’t want to start there because I didn’t want to just do the comic book.”<\/p>\n

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