Woman of Tomorrow’s Ana Nogueira to Pen Teen Titans DCU Film
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Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is only the beginning for Ana Nogueira as she will also pen a new Teen Titans movie, too (per Deadline). Nogueira is Hollywood’s latest talent to take a word-processing swing at screenwriting. Outside the 2018 short We Win, Nogueira’s claim to fame in Tinseltown was as an actress, who appeared in popular titles like The Michael J. Fox Show, The Vampire Diaries, The Blacklist and, most recently, on STARZ’s Hightown. However, DC Universe co-chair and co-CEO James Gunn, has officially tasked Nogueira with not only writing the DCU’s Supergirl film, but also a Teen Titan-based flick.
In November 2023, The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that the actress and playwright, Nogueira, was going to take another stab at penning a Supergirl project after originally being brought in to craft a spin-off script for the much-maligned movie by director Andy Muschietti, The Flash (2023). Despite a tremendous performance given by Sasha Calle as Superman’s (Henry Cavill) Kryptonian cousin Kara Zor-EL, the Scarlet Speedster’s (Ezra Miller) big-screen solo flick bombed at the box office during its short-lived 2023 theatrical run.
As for the Teen Titans, the young superhero group’s first iteration made its debut in the pages of DC Comics’ The Brave and the Bold No. 54 (1964) 60 years ago. Batman’s original sidekick Robin (Dick Grayson), Kid Flash and Aqualad were the first three representatives of the team, although they are not referred to as the Teen Titans in that classic comic book. Wonder Girl joined up in The Brave and the Bold No. 60, and the squad’s first solo title series came finally in 1966’s Teen Titans No. 1.
Holy Robins in the DCU, Batman!
It’s hard to imagine a version of the Teen Titans that doesn’t feature Robin the Boy Wonder, or his grown-up superhero persona of Nightwing leading the young team. So, it’s logical to assume that Ana Nogueira’s Teen Titans film will include Bruce Wayne/Batman’s original partner, Dick Grayson, in some form or fashion.
One thing’s for sure, whereas the character of Robin might have been noticeably absent from the Snyderverse, outside of a couple of Joker-related nods to the death of Jason Todd — the second Robin — the character is definitely going to get some much-deserved screen time in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU. On Tuesday, October 1, Gunn took to X, formerly Twitter, and officially announced a new Robin-heavy animated feature film Dynamic Duo is in the works.
The animated adventure could pull from many different DC Comics stories, but what’s important to note is that Grayson and Todd shared two distinctly different relationships that the DCU could explore, if the creative team goes back to the origins of these characters. When Jason Todd makes his first appearance in the pages of the “Pre-Crisis” Batman No. 357, the boy is a blonde-haired circus acrobat, who is essentially a copycat of Dick Grayson. In these stories, Grayson and Todd are fast friends and like brothers. In fact, it’s Grayson, not Bruce Wayne, who insists Todd wears his Boy Wonder costume and takes up the moniker of Robin as the Bat’s new partner in Batman No. 368.
However, Jason Todd’s new origin (Batman No. 408), which comes during the events following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, portrays the dark-haired boy as a criminal and rebellious ne’er-do-well, whose hot-headed actions eventually get him killed at the hands of the Joker in Batman No. 426 – No. 429’s storyline, A Death in the Family. Dick Grayson and Jason Todd only work together once in this new world, and it’s as Nightwing and Robin.
Now, beyond Dynamic Duo, Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul’s son, Damian Wayne, will feature prominently as a much more dangerous and villainous Robin in the DCU’s upcoming live-action film, The Brave and the Bold. Gunn has declared this to be his “favorite” version of the Boy Wonder, and Robin’s inclusion was noted from the very beginning, when Gunn made the DCU’s “Gods and Monsters” announcement back in January 2023. So, now, with the Teen Titans film, The Brave and the Bold and Dynamic Duo, there will be plenty of Robins to spread around in the DCU.
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