Here’s everything we know about Craig Gillespie’s new take on Superman’s unruly cousin, starring Milly Al cock.
Thanks to Superman and the second season of Peacemaker, James Gunn’s new DC Cinematic Universe — aka, the DCU — now has a firm underpinning of gods and monsters. But those two projects, along with the animated Creature Commandos, are just the first few pages of Gunn’s opening chapter. The next page is July’s Supergirl.
Of course, the film isn’t Kara Zor-El’s first silver screen outing. A 1984 film starring Helen Slater as Superman’s cousin failed to garner enough interest to keep her own series or even the then-current Superman films aloft. But Slater would be honored for her work by portraying Kara’s (Melissa Benoist) adoptive mother, Eliza Danvers, on The CW’s Supergirl series — a program that also proved the character can play well with other DC heroes like The Flash and the Legends of Tomorrow.
But both the ’84 film and the television series work with the best known interpretation of Kara. Gunn, from the moment he announced the new feature, made it clear the next Supergirl will be one most moviegoers will not expect. What does that mean for his overall DCU plans and will audiences welcome a less adorkable version of the character? Let’s take a look at what we know about the 2026 film so far and see if we can’t glean just how well Supergirl will be welcomed.
Unlike many of the announced DCU projects, Supergirl is based on one specific storyline: 2021’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Mat Lopes. Set entirely in space, it features a disgruntled Kara, who finds life on Earth difficult, drowning her sorrows when a young alien named Ruthye Marye Knoll approaches her with a mission to kill Krem of the Yellow Hills. The character previously murdered Ruthye’s father and she figured Supergirl would be the right sort of person to help end the marauder’s life. Kara is, of course, less interested until Krem makes things personal.
The two then embark on an interstellar journey to find Krem and, along the way, determine if vengeance is the right path or not.
It is the sort of plot that allows potential new fans to discover a Kara who is not as squeaky-clean as she’s been for most of her existence and a fresh cosmos filled with intergalactic travel, warlords, and a bounty hunter with a bad attitude (more on him in a moment).
Now, you can read Woman of Tomorrow. In fact, like the teaser released on December 11 suggests, you should, since it is both excellent and completely self-contained, like many of the books King writes for DC. But keep in mind that the movie will alter some elements. Based on the teaser, it seems one Superman character will carry into the film — Krypto! He’s in the book, too, but we’ll avoid spoilers about the famous superdog in both the comic and the film.
As revealed in the teaser, the film will open with Kara and Krypto celebrating her 23rd birthday on some alien world with a red son when Ruthye approaches them with her mission. And after a bar fight, or so it seems, Kara and Ruthye begin their quest.
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