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0:00Before Supergirl blasts its way into

0:02theaters, here's a scoop about the story

0:05it's based on, the title characters

0:06comics history, and its colorful cast of

0:09space weirdos. Superhero movies usually

0:12just use their comic source material as

0:14a kind of jumping off [music] point, not

0:16a road map. Even when the title matches

0:18that of a comics event, like say Age of

0:20Ultron or Civil War, the movies tend to

0:23end up pretty far a field from what the

0:25original comics did. That's not the case

0:27with Supergirl, though. Back in 2023,

0:30when DC Studios co-head James Gunn

0:32[music] announced the first slate of

0:34projects under his leadership, he made

0:36clear that Supergirl would largely be

0:38based on one comic series.

0:40>> One of my favorite comic book series

0:41from last year was Tom King's run on

0:43Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow. We're going

0:45to turn that into a big science fiction

0:47epic film.

0:48>> It'd be easy to assume that Supergirl

0:50would only use elements of that 8 issue

0:52series by King and artist Bill Kiss

0:55Evely. That's the precedent other movies

0:57have set. But over time, it has become

1:00even clearer that the movie is adapting

1:02the comic story nearly beat [music]

1:04forbeat. Supergirl's appearance at the

1:06end of 2025 Superman, where she shows up

1:09at her cousin's Fortress of Solitude

1:11drunk, was the first major clue. No

1:14other take on Supergirl in comics really

1:16goes in that direction.

1:17>> It's not healthy, is it?

1:19The Supergirl trailers make clear that

1:21the movie is going to flash back to

1:23Kazar's origin story, which is similar

1:26to Superman's, but different in some

1:28very key ways. While Kal was sent from

1:31Krypton to Earth as a baby, his younger

1:33cousin Ka arrived later when she was a

1:35teenager. That meant she was old enough

1:38to witness the aftermath of the

1:39destruction of her home planet and be

1:42heavily traumatized by it.

1:44>> Kton didn't die in a day. The gods are

1:46not that kind. Not only that, but

1:48Krypton's destruction was a prolonged

1:50experience for her. Her hometown, Argo

1:53City, actually survived the planet's

1:55initial destruction [music] thanks to a

1:57protective dome placed over it by her

1:59father. But Argo City slowly started to

2:02die, too. After the dome was destroyed

2:04by asteroids and radiation in space,

2:07when it was inevitable that no one could

2:09survive, Cara's father, Zorel, built a

2:11rocket for her and sent her to Earth to

2:13live with her cousin. People were dying

2:16all around her. She's not Superman and

2:19she's definitely not Clark Kent.

2:20>> Early Supergirl stories almost never

2:23actually dealt with the trauma she went

2:24through on Krypton. Any sadness she had

2:26about seeing everyone she knew die, some

2:29quickly, some very slowly, was often

2:32waved away within a panel or two. A

2:34story or two in the 2000s dug into

2:36things a little deeper with Supergirl

2:38looking for revenge on Brainiac, whom

2:40she believed caused [music] everything.

2:42But it really wasn't until Woman of

2:44Tomorrow that any kind of genuine deep

2:46dive into Supergirl's emotions over her

2:49early life hardships really hit stands.

2:52So this is why Supergirl has taken on

2:54this party girl persona. She can't

2:56handle her memories of seeing so much

2:58pain and suffering. So she's spending

3:00all her time going to planets with red

3:02suns and [music] getting trashed.

3:04Because of our metabolism, you can't get

3:06drunk on a planet with a yellow sun. The

3:08[music] movie trailers show Supergirl

3:10going to a bar to celebrate her 23rd

3:12birthday. In the comics, it's 21,

3:14[music] the legal drinking age in the

3:16US. But in both cases, Supergirl meets a

3:19teenager named [music] Ruthie, who is

3:21seeking revenge on the ruthless space

3:23pirate who killed her father. Supergirl

3:25initially refuses to join Ruthiey's

3:27cause. But when [music] Ruthie begs and

3:30says she lost her world, it reminds

3:32Supergirl of her own past, [music] and

3:34she relents. The pirate Creme of the

3:36Yellow Hills and his group of Briggins

3:38also attack and critically injure

3:40Supergirl's dog, Krypto. That particular

3:42plot detail comes with a twist in the

3:44comic, though it remains to be seen if

3:47that same twist will be in the movie.

3:48[music]

3:49Supergirl and Ruthie go on a galaxy

3:51spanning chase to track down Creme. At

3:53one point, they make an unintended stop

3:55on the planet with a green sun, [music]

3:57which temporarily depowers Cara. In the

3:59comic, they finally do capture Creme and

4:02hold [music] him captive on a beach.

4:04Supergirl ultimately talks Ruthie out of

4:06killing him. [music] They imprison the

4:08pirate in a Phantom Zone for decades

4:10instead. We'll just have to see if the

4:12movie follows that same [music] template

4:14all the way through or switches things

4:16up. A Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow comic

4:19is an entirely standalone [music] story.

4:21You don't really need to read anything

4:23else to understand it, and that's by

4:25design. Comics weighed down by a lot of

4:27continuity details are often off-putting

4:29to readers who aren't up to all the

4:31minutia. The Supergirl movie is trying

4:34to do something very different, though.

4:36It's an early building block in the

4:37everexpanding film and TV DCU. It's

4:40trying to make the universe spanning

4:42connections [music] the comic was

4:44desperate to avoid. So, for example,

4:46Superman doesn't appear at all in the

4:48Woman of Tomorrow comic, not even a

4:50cameo. But he's front and center in the

4:53second Supergirl [music]

4:54trailer, sending his curtain a message

4:57expressing his concern about her

4:58constant trips to space bars. [music]

5:00>> I'm worried you're not going to find

5:01your people.

5:02>> Yeah, well, that's the thing, Clark.

5:05I have no people.

5:08>> And then there's Lobo. The trashtalking

5:10bounty hunter is making his DCU debut in

5:13Supergirl, which is only his second ever

5:16official appearance in live action. By

5:18all indications, he'll serve as both an

5:20antagonist and an ally in the movie,

5:23which is pretty in line with how the

5:24main man usually rolls. [music] But

5:26here's the thing, he's also not in the

5:29original comic at all either. Again, the

5:31film quite simply has different goals.

5:33While the comic is just trying to get

5:35readers to dive into a self-contained

5:37series, it's incumbent on the movie to

5:39set up [music] future DCU films and TV

5:42projects. So, we have to hypothesize

5:44that the ending of the movie will be

5:45pretty different from the one in the

5:47comic. It will surely have at least a

5:49little setup for the next Superman

5:50movie, Man of Tomorrow, [music] which

5:52comes out next year. It was a long

5:54journey for actress Millie Alco to play

5:56Supergirl.

5:57>> [music]

5:57>> DC had an entirely different actress

6:00Sasha Cayle in the role of Supergirl

6:02just 3 years ago. Cay played Cara Zorel

6:05in the Flash and had signed a multifilm

6:07contract to keep playing [music] her.

6:09But after Gun and Peter Saffron took

6:11over DC Studios in 2022, months before

6:14the Flash even came out, they indicated

6:16they wanted a change in direction. Gun

6:18had seen Alco in her role on the Game of

6:20Thrones TV series [music] House of the

6:22Dragon and thought the Australian

6:24embodied the take on Supergirl from the

6:26Woman of Tomorrow comic. Gun post voted

6:28on threads that he thought Alco had the

6:30edge, grace, and authenticity to pull

6:33off the role and serve as a break from

6:35the more wholesome version of the

6:36character from the recent Supergirl TV

6:39show. By January 2024, Alco had nabbed

6:42the role. Alco expressed some initial

6:44reservations about playing Supergirl,

6:46[music] not wanting to be typ cast, but

6:49decided to take the role after some

6:51research. Someone who needed no

6:52convincing at all, though, Jason Mamoa,

6:55who had been aching to play Lobo for

6:57years. [music] He's a super fan.

6:59>> It was everything to me growing up, so

7:00I'm like,

7:02>> Mimoa was sure that when director Zack

7:03[music] Snder called him for the role of

7:05Aquaman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of

7:07Justice, he had to be calling about Lobo

7:10instead. But it took a full decade for

7:12him to get the role he truly wanted,

7:14[music]

7:14which he specifically asked Gun for.

7:17English actress Eve Ridley, who has been

7:19in a couple of Netflix projects, [music]

7:21will play Ruthie. Creme will be played

7:23by Belgian actor Martius Skunarts. David

7:26Crumbhalt, who has been in lots of

7:27stuff, including Oppenheimer, will be

7:29joined by English actress Emily Beichum

7:32in flashbacks as Car's parent. James Gun

7:35can only do so much. Given that he's

7:37[music] making two Superman movies in

7:39just over two years while also helming a

7:42season of Peacemaker, he had to hand off

7:44the reigns of Supergirl [music]

7:45to other folks to write and direct.

7:47Actress and writer Anna Noa, who had

7:50already been working on a script for a

7:52Supergirl movie intended to star Cay Gun

7:54and Saffron were happy with her work on

7:56that, so they had her change gears and

7:59start cracking on the screenplay for

8:00their new vision. Though Ngera has

8:02written some plays and a short film,

8:04Supergirl marks her first major movie

8:06script, [music] she's slated to be

8:08working on a number of other DC projects

8:10to follow, including the upcoming Wonder

8:13Woman movie. Taking the director's chair

8:15is Craig Gillespie, who first nabbed

8:17attention with the indie comedy Lars and

8:19the Real Girl. He made an even bigger

8:22splash with the sports crime biopic IA

8:25about figure skater Tanya Harding. But

8:27[music] Gillespiey's resume isn't just

8:29smaller scale films. He also helmed the

8:31Fright Night remake and the live-action

8:34101 Dalmatians prequel Kruella. [music]

8:36According to Gun, he left the reigns to

8:38Gillespie. Gun told Rolling Stone that

8:40he had spent very little time on set. He

8:43just let Gillespie keep doing his thing.

8:46That said, Gun did note that he was very

8:48involved back during the script [music]

8:50stage, so it's likely he was over

8:52Negra's shoulder quite a bit. Despite

8:55Gun's apparent hands-off nature during

8:57the filming of Supergirl, fans can't

8:59help but see his influence. The first

9:01teaser premiered in December 2025, and

9:04almost immediately, critics couldn't

9:06help but call out how much it reminded

9:07them of Gun's Guardians of the Galaxy

9:09trilogy. On Polygon, Jake Klyman wrote,

9:12"Supgirl looks way more like Guardians

9:14Volume 4 than a Superman follow-up."

9:17Even more such commentary bubbled up

9:19after the full trailer got released in

9:21March. It's hard to deny that the

9:22Guardians movies and Supergirl share

9:24some cosmetic similarities. Supergirl

9:27listens to music on headphones [music]

9:29much like Star-Lord does in the

9:30Guardians films, and that detail is

9:33notably not in the original Woman of

9:35Tomorrow comic series. There are also

9:37groups of space pirates and galactic

9:39low- lives [music] who have a similar

9:40vibe to The Ravagers. And look, it's

9:43entirely possible that Supergirl is

9:45attempting to pull in some Guardians

9:46fans to its marketing and production

9:48design. Those movies were very popular.

9:51But if the woman of tomorrow comic is

9:53anything to go by, The Outer Coat of

9:55Paint is where the similarities are

9:57likely to end. The Guardians movies are

9:59largely about found family, the power of

10:02friendship, and a whole lot of daddy

10:04issues. Supergirl looks to be far more

10:06focused on overcoming trauma and

10:08wrestling with whether revenge actually

10:10[music] fixes anything.

10:12>> Revenge,

10:14it won't take your pain away. Rumors are

10:17[music] flying fast and furious about

10:18Gunn and the DCU's future with Paramount

10:21set to take over Warner Brothers if

10:23their merger gets regulatory approval.

10:25But if things continue according to

10:27plan, then they're just getting started.

10:30Supergirl is only the second feature

10:32film release under the new DC Studios

10:34banner. As we mentioned, Gun is working

10:36on a Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow.

10:39Alco Supergirl is already confirmed to

10:41appear in that movie, too. That means

10:43Supergirl will have a presence in three

10:45of the first four theatrical DCU

10:47releases unless a big surprise is

10:49coming. She probably won't be in this

10:51fall's Clayface. It has uh a different

10:55vibe. Undoubtedly, Supergirl is setting

10:57up a future for Lobo as well. We don't

11:00know exactly where Mamoa's take on the

11:02main man will show up next, but we'll

11:04have to guess it'll happen fairly soon.

11:06The HBO Lantern series premieres in

11:08August. And though the trailers are

11:10pretty earthbound, there's definitely a

11:12spacey element to the story. Maybe Lobo

11:15will cameo there, or maybe he'll show up

11:17in the Booster Gold series, or perhaps

11:20the Lobo movie will get announced.

11:22Whatever the case, it seems unlikely

11:23that Mimoa is a one and done. Of course,

11:26all of this will hinge on the box office

11:27performance of Supergirl. With a $175

11:30million production budget, it'll need to

11:33clear around $437 million to make a

11:36profit. Going by the metric of movies

11:38needing to make about 2 and 1/2 times

11:40their budgets to get into the black.

11:42There's a lot of competition out there

11:44this summer. So, we'll just have to see

11:46what happens when Supergirl makes its

11:48debut June 26th.

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