Supergirl director Craig Gillespie has spoken about how DC Studios head James Gunn had given him free reign with directing the new DCU movie. However, it turns out that he did have some notes on one particular character: Krypto.
The super-dog featured heavily in Superman and is a huge part of Supergirl too as it follows Kara Zor-El having to go to extreme lengths to save her four-legged best friend. After he's poisoned by the evil Krem, she ends up teaming up with a young girl named Ruthye to find the antidote to save him.
"Krypto would be one of the things that James was the most articulate about," Gillespie tells GamesRadar+, adding that Gunn frequently said to him, "'Oh no, no, no, he wouldn't do that'."
The director adds: "Obviously, it's based on James's dog, so there was some stuff in the bar that you know, maybe where Krypto was paying too much attention, and it'd be like, 'No, I think you got to change that. He wouldn't actually care about that, or he wouldn't do that, or he'd never follow that rule.' I'm like, 'Oh, okay.' So we got some guidelines with Krypto."
It wasn't just Gunn who was involved in the movie either, as his co-CEO Peter Safran was also often on set, according to Krem actor Matthias Schoenaerts. However, it seems he was also pretty hands off with and didn't offer too much advice on bringing the Brigand alien to life.
"Peter was on set quite often," he tells us. "But he gave also a lot of freedom to Craig [Gillespie], so it was mostly Craig and the actors and the DP, Rob Hardy, that was kind of the trinity working [and] having conversations about what to do and how to do it."
Supergirl is out in UK cinemas on June 25 and arrives in US theaters on June 26. For more, check out our breakdown of how to watch the DC movies in order and all the upcoming DC movies and shows you need to know about.
