@Erik, please do the due diligence of fact checking what you say. Your words have influence.

You keep reporting that Craig Gillespie and Anna Nogueira got very little inspiration from WoT, or at best flipped through a few pages. That is false. Both of them read the book and cited it as a source of inspiration. In Nogueira's case, she said it was a major source of inspiration.

1. Gillespie waited to read the book until after reading Nogueira's script because he said he wanted to develop his own visual identity. I am not saying this is right or wrong, I am saying this is true.
2. In her interview with Brandon Davis, Nogueira specifically said that she read the book many times and marked it up heavily with notes and bookmarks.

Tom King himself was inspired by True Grit when he wrote Woman of Tomorrow, but he changed several things about the story when writing it (for example, in the book and in the 1969 film, Rooster Cogburn does actually kill the Tom Chaney character, who Krem is the facsimile of. So in some ways one could argue Supergirl is actually more faithful to True Grit than Tom King was. The Coen brothers also changed this in their adaptation, where they had Mattie, the Ruthye character, kill Tom Chaney).

I love the book WoT, but why is this adaptation getting dragged through the mud for making narrative changes when Tom King himself did that?

It's disappointing to see the same pattern of everyone else on the internet who just mindlessly parrots things they heard or saw online. So no one is able to think for themselves. If you go into a movie thinking that it sucks, obviously you are going to hate it.

New Rockstars aren't exactly journalists, but I did think that you all held yourself to the standard of only sharing facts, not idle gossip.

"I very deliberately started with the script that Ana wrote," Gillespie says, "and I put together a lot of visuals around that coming from the script, trying to make something that I would be excited about and that had this grit and flavor of the Supergirl character, Kara."

If you're a fan of the original comic, don't throw your phone just yet: Gillespie confirms he did eventually look at the original comic for inspiration, and confirms that he borrowed some visuals from Evely's work.

"After that, I went back and visited Tom King's Woman of Tomorrow and took some images from that," he says, "but I didn't want to start there because I didn't want to just do the comic book."

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