Craig Gillespie and Ana Nogueira discuss translating the acclaimed comic into a feature film

A comic adaptation built around a fairly unconventional creative pairing

Director Craig Gillespie and screenwriter Ana Nogueira discussed adapting Woman of Tomorrow into the feature film Supergirl in a joint interview, according to Rolling Stone’s conversation with the pair. Nogueira, previously an actress before transitioning to screenwriting, was tapped for the assignment after DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn commissioned the adaptation.

Pairing an established director with a rising screenwriter

Gillespie, known for I, Tonya and Cruella, joined the project after Nogueira’s script was already in development, a sequencing that gave the director a fully formed screenplay to interpret rather than shaping the story from the ground up.

A cast built around the source material’s tone

The finished film stars Milly Alcock in the title role alongside Eve Ridley and Jason Momoa, casting choices the filmmaking team describes as central to capturing the comic’s specific blend of tone that the adaptation aimed to preserve.

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Comic adaptations live or die on tone. Pairing a distinctive director with a screenwriter who already nailed that tone on the page is exactly the kind of match this genre depends on. For more on the film’s development, visit Rolling Stone. For lighter British commentary elsewhere in our network, see The London Prat’s Nigel Farage’s Farage Fest.