Supergirl screenwriter couldn't get her head around the "sunny" version of Kara until she read Tom King's Woman of Tomorrow: "I was like, 'There she is'"

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Screenwriter Ana Nogueira liked the "rougher and grittier and edgier and funnier" version of Supergirl in Woman of the Tomorrow

Milly Alcock as Supergirl
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Supergirl screenwriter Ana Nogueira says she struggled to get to grips with the often cheerful and optimistic portrayals of Kara Zor-El until she encountered Tom King's comic book Woman of Tomorrow.

"She watched Krypton completely be destroyed," Nogueira told Variety. Unlike Superman, who was raised on Earth by loving human adoptive parents, Kara, who's older (despite her outward appearance) had a much more tumultuous upbringing.

"I was always like, 'I can’t get my head around the version of the character that is so sunny,'" she added. That was, until she encountered King’s "rougher and grittier and edgier and funnier" version of Kara in Woman of Tomorrow, on which her script is based. "When I read it, I was like, 'There she is.'"

Emily Garbutt
Entertainment Writer

I’m an Entertainment Writer here at GamesRadar+, covering everything film and TV-related across the Total Film and SFX sections. I help bring you all the latest news and also the occasional feature too. I’ve previously written for publications like HuffPost and i-D after getting my NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism. 

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