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Before Supergirl blasts its way into
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theaters, here's a scoop about the story
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it's based on, the title characters
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comics history, and its colorful cast of
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space weirdos. Superhero movies usually
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just use their comic source material as
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a kind of jumping off [music] point, not
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a road map. Even when the title matches
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that of a comics event, like say Age of
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Ultron or Civil War, the movies tend to
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end up pretty far a field from what the
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original comics did. That's not the case
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with Supergirl, though. Back in 2023,
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when DC Studios co-head James Gunn
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[music] announced the first slate of
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projects under his leadership, he made
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clear that Supergirl would largely be
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based on one comic series.
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>> One of my favorite comic book series
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from last year was Tom King's run on
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Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow. We're going
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to turn that into a big science fiction
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epic film.
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>> It'd be easy to assume that Supergirl
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would only use elements of that 8 issue
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series by King and artist Bill Kiss
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Evely. That's the precedent other movies
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have set. But over time, it has become
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even clearer that the movie is adapting
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the comic story nearly beat [music]
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forbeat. Supergirl's appearance at the
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end of 2025 Superman, where she shows up
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at her cousin's Fortress of Solitude
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drunk, was the first major clue. No
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other take on Supergirl in comics really
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goes in that direction.
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>> It's not healthy, is it?
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The Supergirl trailers make clear that
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the movie is going to flash back to
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Kazar's origin story, which is similar
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to Superman's, but different in some
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very key ways. While Kal was sent from
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Krypton to Earth as a baby, his younger
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cousin Ka arrived later when she was a
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teenager. That meant she was old enough
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to witness the aftermath of the
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destruction of her home planet and be
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heavily traumatized by it.
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>> Kton didn't die in a day. The gods are
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not that kind. Not only that, but
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Krypton's destruction was a prolonged
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experience for her. Her hometown, Argo
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City, actually survived the planet's
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initial destruction [music] thanks to a
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protective dome placed over it by her
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father. But Argo City slowly started to
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die, too. After the dome was destroyed
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by asteroids and radiation in space,
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when it was inevitable that no one could
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survive, Cara's father, Zorel, built a
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rocket for her and sent her to Earth to
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live with her cousin. People were dying
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all around her. She's not Superman and
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she's definitely not Clark Kent.
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>> Early Supergirl stories almost never
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actually dealt with the trauma she went
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through on Krypton. Any sadness she had
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about seeing everyone she knew die, some
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quickly, some very slowly, was often
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waved away within a panel or two. A
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story or two in the 2000s dug into
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things a little deeper with Supergirl
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looking for revenge on Brainiac, whom
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she believed caused [music] everything.
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But it really wasn't until Woman of
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Tomorrow that any kind of genuine deep
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dive into Supergirl's emotions over her
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early life hardships really hit stands.
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So this is why Supergirl has taken on
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this party girl persona. She can't
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handle her memories of seeing so much
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pain and suffering. So she's spending
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all her time going to planets with red
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suns and [music] getting trashed.
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Because of our metabolism, you can't get
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drunk on a planet with a yellow sun. The
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[music] movie trailers show Supergirl
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going to a bar to celebrate her 23rd
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birthday. In the comics, it's 21,
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[music] the legal drinking age in the
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US. But in both cases, Supergirl meets a
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teenager named [music] Ruthie, who is
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seeking revenge on the ruthless space
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pirate who killed her father. Supergirl
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initially refuses to join Ruthiey's
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cause. But when [music] Ruthie begs and
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says she lost her world, it reminds
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Supergirl of her own past, [music] and
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she relents. The pirate Creme of the
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Yellow Hills and his group of Briggins
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also attack and critically injure
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Supergirl's dog, Krypto. That particular
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plot detail comes with a twist in the
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comic, though it remains to be seen if
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that same twist will be in the movie.
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[music]
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Supergirl and Ruthie go on a galaxy
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spanning chase to track down Creme. At
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one point, they make an unintended stop
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on the planet with a green sun, [music]
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which temporarily depowers Cara. In the
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comic, they finally do capture Creme and
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hold [music] him captive on a beach.
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Supergirl ultimately talks Ruthie out of
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killing him. [music] They imprison the
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pirate in a Phantom Zone for decades
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instead. We'll just have to see if the
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movie follows that same [music] template
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all the way through or switches things
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up. A Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow comic
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is an entirely standalone [music] story.
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You don't really need to read anything
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else to understand it, and that's by
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design. Comics weighed down by a lot of
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continuity details are often off-putting
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to readers who aren't up to all the
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minutia. The Supergirl movie is trying
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to do something very different, though.
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It's an early building block in the
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everexpanding film and TV DCU. It's
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trying to make the universe spanning
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connections [music] the comic was
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desperate to avoid. So, for example,
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Superman doesn't appear at all in the
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Woman of Tomorrow comic, not even a
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cameo. But he's front and center in the
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second Supergirl [music]
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trailer, sending his curtain a message
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expressing his concern about her
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constant trips to space bars. [music]
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>> I'm worried you're not going to find
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your people.
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>> Yeah, well, that's the thing, Clark.
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I have no people.
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>> And then there's Lobo. The trashtalking
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bounty hunter is making his DCU debut in
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Supergirl, which is only his second ever
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official appearance in live action. By
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all indications, he'll serve as both an
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antagonist and an ally in the movie,
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which is pretty in line with how the
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main man usually rolls. [music] But
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here's the thing, he's also not in the
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original comic at all either. Again, the
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film quite simply has different goals.
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While the comic is just trying to get
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readers to dive into a self-contained
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series, it's incumbent on the movie to
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set up [music] future DCU films and TV
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projects. So, we have to hypothesize
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that the ending of the movie will be
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pretty different from the one in the
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comic. It will surely have at least a
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little setup for the next Superman
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movie, Man of Tomorrow, [music] which
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comes out next year. It was a long
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journey for actress Millie Alco to play
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Supergirl.
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>> [music]
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>> DC had an entirely different actress
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Sasha Cayle in the role of Supergirl
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just 3 years ago. Cay played Cara Zorel
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in the Flash and had signed a multifilm
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contract to keep playing [music] her.
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But after Gun and Peter Saffron took
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over DC Studios in 2022, months before
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the Flash even came out, they indicated
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they wanted a change in direction. Gun
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had seen Alco in her role on the Game of
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Thrones TV series [music] House of the
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Dragon and thought the Australian
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embodied the take on Supergirl from the
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Woman of Tomorrow comic. Gun post voted
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on threads that he thought Alco had the
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edge, grace, and authenticity to pull
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off the role and serve as a break from
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the more wholesome version of the
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character from the recent Supergirl TV
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show. By January 2024, Alco had nabbed
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the role. Alco expressed some initial
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reservations about playing Supergirl,
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[music] not wanting to be typ cast, but
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decided to take the role after some
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research. Someone who needed no
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convincing at all, though, Jason Mamoa,
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who had been aching to play Lobo for
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years. [music] He's a super fan.
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>> It was everything to me growing up, so
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I'm like,
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>> Mimoa was sure that when director Zack
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[music] Snder called him for the role of
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Aquaman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of
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Justice, he had to be calling about Lobo
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instead. But it took a full decade for
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him to get the role he truly wanted,
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[music]
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which he specifically asked Gun for.
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English actress Eve Ridley, who has been
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in a couple of Netflix projects, [music]
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will play Ruthie. Creme will be played
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by Belgian actor Martius Skunarts. David
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Crumbhalt, who has been in lots of
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stuff, including Oppenheimer, will be
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joined by English actress Emily Beichum
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in flashbacks as Car's parent. James Gun
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can only do so much. Given that he's
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[music] making two Superman movies in
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just over two years while also helming a
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season of Peacemaker, he had to hand off
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the reigns of Supergirl [music]
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to other folks to write and direct.
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Actress and writer Anna Noa, who had
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already been working on a script for a
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Supergirl movie intended to star Cay Gun
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and Saffron were happy with her work on
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that, so they had her change gears and
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start cracking on the screenplay for
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their new vision. Though Ngera has
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written some plays and a short film,
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Supergirl marks her first major movie
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script, [music] she's slated to be
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working on a number of other DC projects
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to follow, including the upcoming Wonder
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Woman movie. Taking the director's chair
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is Craig Gillespie, who first nabbed
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attention with the indie comedy Lars and
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the Real Girl. He made an even bigger
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splash with the sports crime biopic IA
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about figure skater Tanya Harding. But
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[music] Gillespiey's resume isn't just
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smaller scale films. He also helmed the
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Fright Night remake and the live-action
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101 Dalmatians prequel Kruella. [music]
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According to Gun, he left the reigns to
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Gillespie. Gun told Rolling Stone that
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he had spent very little time on set. He
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just let Gillespie keep doing his thing.
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That said, Gun did note that he was very
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involved back during the script [music]
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stage, so it's likely he was over
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Negra's shoulder quite a bit. Despite
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Gun's apparent hands-off nature during
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the filming of Supergirl, fans can't
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help but see his influence. The first
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teaser premiered in December 2025, and
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almost immediately, critics couldn't
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help but call out how much it reminded
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them of Gun's Guardians of the Galaxy
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trilogy. On Polygon, Jake Klyman wrote,
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"Supgirl looks way more like Guardians
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Volume 4 than a Superman follow-up."
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Even more such commentary bubbled up
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after the full trailer got released in
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March. It's hard to deny that the
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Guardians movies and Supergirl share
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some cosmetic similarities. Supergirl
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listens to music on headphones [music]
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much like Star-Lord does in the
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Guardians films, and that detail is
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notably not in the original Woman of
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Tomorrow comic series. There are also
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groups of space pirates and galactic
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low- lives [music] who have a similar
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vibe to The Ravagers. And look, it's
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entirely possible that Supergirl is
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attempting to pull in some Guardians
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fans to its marketing and production
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design. Those movies were very popular.
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But if the woman of tomorrow comic is
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anything to go by, The Outer Coat of
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Paint is where the similarities are
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likely to end. The Guardians movies are
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largely about found family, the power of
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friendship, and a whole lot of daddy
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issues. Supergirl looks to be far more
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focused on overcoming trauma and
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wrestling with whether revenge actually
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[music] fixes anything.
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>> Revenge,
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it won't take your pain away. Rumors are
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[music] flying fast and furious about
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Gunn and the DCU's future with Paramount
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set to take over Warner Brothers if
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their merger gets regulatory approval.
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But if things continue according to
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plan, then they're just getting started.
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Supergirl is only the second feature
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film release under the new DC Studios
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banner. As we mentioned, Gun is working
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on a Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow.
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Alco Supergirl is already confirmed to
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appear in that movie, too. That means
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Supergirl will have a presence in three
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of the first four theatrical DCU
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releases unless a big surprise is
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coming. She probably won't be in this
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fall's Clayface. It has uh a different
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vibe. Undoubtedly, Supergirl is setting
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up a future for Lobo as well. We don't
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know exactly where Mamoa's take on the
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main man will show up next, but we'll
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have to guess it'll happen fairly soon.
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The HBO Lantern series premieres in
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August. And though the trailers are
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pretty earthbound, there's definitely a
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spacey element to the story. Maybe Lobo
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will cameo there, or maybe he'll show up
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in the Booster Gold series, or perhaps
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the Lobo movie will get announced.
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Whatever the case, it seems unlikely
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that Mimoa is a one and done. Of course,
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all of this will hinge on the box office
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performance of Supergirl. With a $175
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million production budget, it'll need to
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clear around $437 million to make a
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profit. Going by the metric of movies
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needing to make about 2 and 1/2 times
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their budgets to get into the black.
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There's a lot of competition out there
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this summer. So, we'll just have to see
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what happens when Supergirl makes its
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debut June 26th.
