Warner Bros. Pictures today took a few minutes out from trying to decide who will own their library next year, to release a teaser trailer for June’s Supergirl. Based on the comic series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely, the movie stars Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, the cousin of Superman last seen walking drunkenly out of the Fortress of Solitude in last summer’s Superman.
James Gunn won’t direct this film, serving as producer and handing the reins to filmmaker Craig Gillespie and writer Ana Nogueira, the latter of whom is also reportedly working with Gunn and DC Studios on a Teen Titans project as well as Wonder Woman. Gillespie is best known for his dramas like I, Tonya, Dumb Money, and the Disney event film Cruella.
Gunn announced earlier this week that the Supergirl teaser was coming, releasing an incredibly brief first look and flying a number of high-profile fan journalists to see the trailer on the big screen. Earlier today, Warners started a countdown clock on a Times Square digital billboard.
In Supergirl, the titular hero heads to space to celebrate her birthday, but gets wrapped up in tragedy and a quest for revenge. Jason Momoa co-stars as Lobo, an intergalactic bounty hunter who, despite being an antihero in the comics, has often been cast in other media as a Superman villain.
Lobo previously made his live-action debut in Krypton, in which the character was played by Emmett Scanlan, who previously appeared in Constantine and Guardians of the Galaxy. Supergirl has appeared in two prior live-action incarnations — one in 1984 (starring Helen Slater in the title role) and then on the small screen with Melissa Benoist as Kara.
“We see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off 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,” Gunn explained back when the movie was first announced. “She’s much more hardcore, she’s not exactly the Supergirl we’re used to seeing.”
That’s emphasized by a rumored plot synopsis referring to her quest for revenge as “murderous.”
Traditionally, Kara has retained Superman’s moral code and sunny disposition, having been sent to Earth as a teen to take care of her baby cousin. Due to the vagaries of space travel, something always happens, causing Kara to arrive decades late but still un-aged, making her a younger foil for the experienced, respected Superman.
Supergirl is expected in theaters on June 26.
“Supergirl has appeared in two prior live-action incarnations — one in 1984 (starring Helen Slater in the title role) and then on the small screen with Melissa Benoist as Kara.”
The character was also in the Flash movie.
Yeah, and there was Laura Vandervoort on Smallville, but it doesn’t say they were only ones.
Also, it was, y’know, The Flash movie: I’d probably use the Eternal Sunshine machine if I watched it.