The new DC superhero movie will star Milly Alcock of “House of the Dragon”
Warner Bros. Discovery has opened negotiations with director Craig Gillespie, known for “I, Tonia” (2017) and “Cruella” (2021), to take over the direction of the film “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.” Filming is expected to begin at the end of the year, as soon as “Superman” finishes principal photography.
Actress Milly Alcock, who played the young version of Rhaenyra Targaryen in the early chapters of the “House of the Dragon” series, was introduced at the end of January as the new Kara Zor-El, Superman’s cousin.
The plot of “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” would be partially inspired by Tom King’s miniseries of the same name. Producers James Gunn and Peter Safran, presidents of DC Studios, described this version of the character as something audiences are not used to. Gunn explained last year: “We’ll see the difference between Superman, who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was a child, and Supergirl, who grew up on a rock, a piece of Krypton, and who has saw everyone around her dying and being killed in atrocious ways during the first 14 years of their lives, before coming to Earth.”
Supergirl in comics and on screen
Created by Otto Binder and Al Plastino in 1959, the character known as Kara Zor-El is the cousin of Kal-El, Superman, and like him is one of the few survivors of the planet Krypton. The character was considered secondary for several years, appearing in short stories and acting covertly, as Superman’s “secret weapon”, until his existence became public in 1962. Only in the late 1960s did he become the subject of a DC (“Adventure Comics”) and only in 1972 did he get a magazine under his name. However, this version, whose secret identity was Linda Lee Danvers, died during the “Crisis on Infinite Earths” event in 1986.
Since then, DC has made several attempts to resurrect Supergirl: one was a teenager who merged with an artificial version of the hero and an angel, ending up in Hell, and another was a new Kara Zor-El, who adopted the identity of Lana Lang’s granddaughter. Two more attempts later, the character was reintroduced in “Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow”, a comic of the same name as the film, released in 2021.
“Supergirl, Woman of Tomorrow” will, in fact, be the second film of the character, who had her first production, “Supergirl”, with Helen Slater in 1984. More recently, Sasha Calle played the heroine in the film “The Flash ” (2023), while Laura Vandervoort and Melissa Benoist played the Girl of Steel on TV, respectively in 23 episodes of “Smallville”, between 2009 and 2011, and as protagonists of the series “Supergirl” for six seasons, from 2015 to 2021.
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