James Gunn deserves more blame than Ana Noguira for Supergirl’s failure.
A writer who has basically no writing experience was hired to write the script for a huge movie based on a book that she has now gone on record admitting that she didn’t even understand.
How is that the type of person that you hire to write your Supergirl movie? How is this the script that was given the thumbs up to greenlight?
Yes, Ana Noguiera did a poor job adapting Woman of Tomorrow and has hilariously admitted to completely misinterpreting the ENDING OF THE STORY. She obviously deserves a lot of blame, and the criticisms fans have with her script are fair.
But to me James Gunn deserves even more blame. Who hires someone with basically no writing experience for a blockbuster film? He claims that every script for the DCU is always going through comprehensive quality control, and he claims to be a huge fan of the story that he hired someone who didn’t even UNDERSTAND the story to write an adaptation for. Which he gave the thumbs up.
Like many fans, I was very disappointed to see such a special story be butchered the way it was, and I was obviously very frustrated with Noguiera’s lack of ability as a writer and her lack of comprehension when it comes to the original source material.
But I think James Gunn has disappointed me even more in this situation because he is the creative boss of the dcu and basically LET this happen.
Does anybody else feel similarly?