Supergirl makes a quick cameo on the finish of 2025’s Superman when Clark Kent’s Kryptonian cousin lands again on Earth. It’s a comedic reunion as Kara Zor-El stumbles drunkenly into the Fortress of Solitude to retrieve her rowdy canine, Krypto, earlier than leaving once more to go social gathering on planets with purple suns, the place she will be able to get sufficiently plastered sans metabolic interference.
Not like her optimistic and goody-two-shoes cousin, the brand new DC Universe’s tackle Supergirl is chaotic, rebellious, potty-mouthed, and playfully vulgar—a tone that, for good motive, will proceed when the Girl of Tomorrow headlines her personal movie subsequent yr.
In accordance with Supergirl screenwriter Ana Nogueira, the tonal shift between the intense and cheerful on-screen Supergirls of yesteryear and the DCU’s messy, jaded social gathering woman model performed by House of the Dragon’s Milly Alcock simply makes extra sense for the character based mostly on her extremely traumatic previous.
“She watched Krypton fully be destroyed. I used to be all the time like, ‘I can’t get my head across the model of the character that’s so sunny,’” Nogueira just lately advised Variety about her thought course of concerning Supergirl’s big-screen characterization.
The screenwriter discovered the right inspiration when she learn comedian ebook writer Tom King’s “rougher and grittier and edgier and funnier” tales about Kara within the Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow sequence, which was revealed between 2021 and 2022. “Once I learn it, I used to be like, ‘There she is,’” Nogueira defined.
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Supergirl will mark the Kara Zor-El model of the character’s third live-action theatrical movie look. Supergirl acquired her personal movie, additionally titled Supergirl, in 1984, however the film starring Helen Slater was panned by critics and flopped on the field workplace. Performed by Sasha Calle, the superhero additionally appeared in 2023’s The Flash, which takes place within the DCEU timeline.
Directed by Craig Gillespie, Supergirl is scheduled to fly into theaters on June 26, 2026.
Principal filming for Supergirl wrapped again in Might. The movie will mark the second feature-length title in James Gunn’s DCU, and proceed the franchise’s “Chapter 1: Gods and Monsters” story line period.
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