Here's Why 'Supergirl' Ends and Sounds Like That

As one of the big movies of the weekend, folks are watching Supergirl and have their thoughts on it. The same goes for director Craig Gillespie and writer Ann Nogueira, who’ve been talking to press about how the movie’s production. First announced as an adaptation of Bilquis Everly and Tom King’s award-winning graphic novel Woman of Tomorrow, the finished product is…not really that, and now the two have taken to explaining some key changes made in the film. After defeating Krem of the Yellow Hills’ forces and talking Ruthye out of killing the man who slaughtered her family, Kara goes and finishes him off herself. It’s a sharp divergence from the comic, where Krem spends years imprisoned in the Phantom Zone before he’s freed and a now elderly Ruthye hits him in the face before walking off. Nogueira told Entertainment Weekly this change has always been part of her initial pitch for the movie, and one signed off by producers James Gunn and Peter Safran. “We gotta kill the guy, and we can’t let the little girl do it,” she recalled saying. While stuck writing, she eventually realized Kara’s final lines to Krem would bring everything home: ‘This is for my dog,’ and ‘This is for what you