'Supergirl' Teaser and More Info About The Film

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The main story of Supergirl is part John Wick, part True Grit, with superheroes. 

A young alien girl, Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley), tracks down Superman's tormented partygirl cousin to bring the brute that killed her family to justice, Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts). Kara has a personal motivation to complete the task: During an early encounter with Krem, the adversary poisons her beloved super-dog, Krypto, who will die in three days' time without the antidote he keeps among his personal effects.

The lovable but untamable Krypto is Kara’s last remnant of her life back on Krypton before the destruction of her home world — an event that continues to haunt the comic book strongwoman.

"We do really thoroughly investigate Argo [the city where Supergirl was born] and Krypton," Gillespie, also known for helming I, Tonya and Cruella, says. "It's so fundamental to who she is as a person and what she goes through in her formative years there. It makes you understand why she is where she is with her personality and the self-destructive nature that she has as we meet her at the beginning of the film."

The earlier DC mythology envisioned Krypton blowing up on a single day, but as Kara herself mentions in the trailers for Supergirl, "The Gods are not that kind." To bring the planet and the culture of its people to life, the filmmaker looked back to the 1978 era of Superman movies for guidance on how the Kryptonians carried themselves. He also dug deep into the background of Kara and her family.

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