The DCU will be expanding\u00a0in 2026 with Supergirl. The movie\u2014written by Ana Nogueira\u2014stars Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El and is directed by Craig Gillespie, who helmed I,Tonya, starring Margot Robbie,\u00a0and Cruella with Emma Stone. DC Studios’\u00a0next big-screen offering\u00a0is an adaptation of 2021’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, drawn by Bilquis Evely and written by Tom King. Aside from the change of having Jason Momoa’s Lobo play a role in the story, the film is expected to be a fairly faithful take on its source material.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adapting a character with as\u00a0much history as Kara Zor-El can be tricky, particularly for someone not versed in the subject. Turns out\u00a0director Craig Gillespie was\u00a0not familiar with the source material prior to tackling the project. Thankfully, he had the right tools\u00a0to helm the feature. The Supergirl trailer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was recently released to the public online, but it was screened days prior at a press conference, where\u00a0Gillespie\u00a0and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn were in attendance.<\/p>\n There, the director revealed (via Screen Rant<\/strong><\/a>) he wasn’t familiar with Supergirl’s mythology, and as such, decided to read Ana Nogueira’s Supergirl script prior to reading\u00a0Woman of Tomorrow:\u00a0<\/p>\n “I very deliberately read Ana’s script before I read the comic, because I wanted to see how that would hold up.”<\/strong> The director explained he “didn’t know anything about this, like,\u00a0the Supergirl lore.”<\/strong> As such, he felt that made him the ideal type of viewer for the movie, as he further explained:\u00a0“[I] was kind of a perfect audience for it, because any questions that I did have, I could ask, but she did an amazing job of working that narrative.”<\/strong><\/p>\n The director further stated: “It was quite clear to me what was going on.”<\/strong>\u00a0Gillespie also made a point to commend screenwriter Ana\u00a0Nogueira for the way she adapted the storyline, stating (via DC.com<\/strong><\/a>): “I know we keep mentioning the Tom King book, but she\u00a0really took it to a different place as well. So, for everybody thumbing through that Tom King novel right now, it’s different.”<\/strong><\/p>\n
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<\/p>\n Supergirl is an important milestone for DC Studios and\u00a0the superhero genre as a whole, given that it will be one of the\u00a0first straight adaptations of a specific comic book run. Films like Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War and\u00a0Avengers: Infinity War adapted major storylines and concepts from their source material.<\/p>\n Batman v Superman, for example, took elements from the\u00a0Death of Superman and The Dark Knight Returns. The third Captain America film adapted the Civil War storyline from the comics, and Infinity War\u00a0brought to life\u00a0Silver Surfer crash-landing on Earth to warn of Thanos’ arrival, but replaced him with the Hulk. Despite these elements, none of the films were straight adaptations of their source material. Instead, they were inspired by it, taking its basic concepts and\u00a0building new stories around them.\u00a0<\/p>\n Craig Gillespie’s\u00a0Supergirl, on the other hand, from everything that’s come out about it (it was originally titled<\/strong><\/a> Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, for starters), seems to be a very faithful\u00a0adaptation of it source story. The comic is\u00a0one of DC’s most critically acclaimed works in recent years. Having a film taking that story as the basis for its plot is an exciting proposition, particularly given the creative team behind it, and its\u00a0star, Milly Alcock.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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