Teen Titans and Ana Nogueira
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It’s go time for the Teen Titans.
The DC heroes, which started because the teenaged sidekicks of their extra well-known and iconic counterparts, are getting their very own live-action function from the James Gunn and Peter Safran-led DC Studios.
The comedian guide film division of Warner Bros. Discovery has tapped Ana Nogueira to pen the screenplay for the challenge. The hiring additional ensconces the actress and playwright-turned scribe into the DC household as she is already writing Supergirl: Lady of Tomorrow for the label.
The Teen Titans have been first launched within the mid-Nineteen Sixties and featured Robin, Child Flash, and Aqualad in addition to Marvel Lady. Different teenagers corresponding to Speedy, the sidekick to Inexperienced Arrow, joined the adventures later. The comics skewed younger and weren’t thought-about main sellers till the Eighties relaunch by Marv Wolfman and George Perez.
With the addition of Beast Boy and new creations Cyborg, Raven and Starfire becoming a member of Robin and Marvel Lady, The New Teen Titans turned an enormous hit and DC’s No. 1-selling comedian. The run matured the characters, outlined personalities and relationships, launched true archenemies, with many themes and concepts that also reverberate within the comics and different storytelling kinds in fashionable occasions.
The guide has been revamped a number of occasions in numerous configurations of characters, new and previous. DC Comics at present publishes Titans, that includes the basic Eighties combo however with the characters now not youngsters.
The Teen Titans turned an sudden hit media franchise because of Teen Titans Go!, a comedic and steadily meta tackle DC. The animated sequence has run eight seasons on Cartoon Community, airing near 400 episodes. The sequence additionally spawned a function movie, Teen Titans Go! To the Film, which was launched in theaters in July 2018. The characters have additionally popped up in video video games, amongst different media.
Nogueira was identified for her performing, which included a stint on CW’s The Vampire Diaries and credit on such exhibits as The Michael J. Fox Present and the current Starz sequence Hightown. Nonetheless she has additionally constructed a thriving writing profession, and her play Which Approach to the Stage debuted off-Broadway in 2022. In November 2023, it was revealed that she was writing DC’s Supergirl, a standalone function centered on the Kryptonian cousin of Superman. The challenge is now searching for a director.
She is repped by CAA for writing, Modern for performing. She can be repped by Howard Inexperienced Leisure and Goodman Genow.