SUPERGIRL: WOMAN OF TOMORROW Casts Eve Ridley as Ruthye
DC Studios’ Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow has cast 3 Body Problem star Eve Ridley in the role of Ruthye Mary Knolle.
She will join House of the Dragon‘s Milly Alcock, who is taking on the title role, and Rust and Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts has landed the role of the main villain.
In the comics, Ruthye is a noble and honor-bound warrior who traveled across the cosmos with Supergirl to hunt down Krem of the Yellow Hills for killing her father in cold blood.
Craig Gillespie is directing the film, with James Gunn and Peter Safran producing. This will be the second film released in Gods and Monsters DC phase one, and the film is set to start shooting later this year.
Ana Nogueira is writing the screenplay for the film, and it was previously explained that the movie is “based on Tom King’s wonderful comic book series that came out just last year… This is a very different type of Super Girl.”
In this film “we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time is an infant versus super girl who was raised on a rock chip off of Krypton and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to earth when she was a young girl and is much more hardcore. She's not exactly the Supergirl we are used to seeing.”
In the story from King’s comic: “Kara Zor-El has seen some epic adventures over the years, but she now finds her life without meaning or purpose. Here she is, a young woman who saw her planet destroyed and was sent to Earth to protect a baby cousin who ended up not needing her. What was it all for?”
Wherever she goes, “people only see her through the lens of Superman’s fame. Just when Supergirl thinks she’s had enough, everything changes. An alien girl seeks her out for a vicious mission. Her world has been destroyed, and the bad guys responsible are still out there.”
She wants revenge, “and if Supergirl doesn’t help her, she’ll do it herself, whatever the cost. Now a Kryptonian, a dog, and an angry, heartbroken child head out into space on a journey that will shake them to their very core.”
I hope that Gunn’s plan for the DC Cinematic Universe ends up being good. The question is, even if it is, will people show up to watch the movies?
