James Gunn expands upon Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow plot details

Plot details have been released by DC Studios’ co-chairman and co-CEO James Gunn about the film Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is a solo film that will feature and introduce Kara Zor-El/Supergirl to the DCU and is stemmed from the eight-issue miniseries of the same name published between 2021 and 2022 by writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Lively and is being produced by James Gunn and Peter Safran.

King’s version of Woman of Tomorrow wherein the Supergirl comics revolved around the nominal super-heroine, an alien girl called Ruthye, and Krypto the Superdog as the center point. The story is mostly told from the point of view of Ruthye who is seeking revenge against a merciless bounty hunter. Kara is lost and the ultimate refugee, bearing witness to a home world she witnessed destroyed right before her eyes.

As the Girl of Steel, despite her many adventures, Kara has lost her purpose. Once assigned to protect her baby cousin on Earth, only to find he is fully a man and their greatest champion. Supergirl embarks on a journey with Ruthye on a space-hopping adventure throughout the cosmos once she discovered the same target Ruthye is after, poisoned Krypto.

What are the plot details of the DCU’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow?

While Gunn, the co-CEO of DC Studios, has confirmed Woman of Tomorrow is based on Tom King’s run in the comics, it does not mean it will be a faithful adaptation of the miniseries. The head honchos of the Warner Bros.-owned studio are also unsure whether Sasha Calle who is portraying a version of Kara Zor-El/Supergirl on The Flash will reprise her role as the DCU’s Maiden of Might.

Gunn mentioned “We’re figuring it all out” and described their take on Woman of Tomorrow without any official synopsis like this:

"“Within our story, we have Superman, who was sent to Earth and raised by incredibly loving parents and nurtured, whereas Kara was in Krypton, she was on a piece of Krypton that drifted away from the planet and lived there for the first 14 years of her life among [a] horrible situation where she watched everybody around her die. So she’s a much harsher and more ******** Supergirl than we’ve been used to this far.”"

From this statement, we can pick up two things of note: the Kara that will be introduced in the DCU will be more hardcore (perhaps even more so) than the present and concluding the live-action continuity in the (DCEU) DC Extended Universe. She is hardened and perhaps more solemn compared to Calle’s Supergirl. Plus the film will be mostly set away from Earth.

Whether or not Kara in the DCU is already established in mankind as Supergirl in the DCU or her reputation is not quite known on Earth. Though it is assumed by the time the character is introduced, she has met her younger cousin as an adult. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow will be the first standalone film depicting the character in over four decades since Helen Slater in the 80s era. Laura Vandervoot and Melissa Benoist portrayed the character on the small screen.

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