DC Universe 'Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow' Officially Becomes Slate’s Second Film; Gets June 2026 Release
DC Universe 'Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow' Officially Becomes Slate’s Second Film; Gets June 2026 Release
The Girl of Steel, played by Milly Alcock, is confirmed to be coming sooner than first reported
Faster than a speeding bullet, indeed. Warner Bros. has confirmed that in their slate for the new DC Universe, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow has sped past The Authority and Brave and the Bold to become the second-scheduled film. The DC Studios project has been set for a June 26, 2026 release.
The film was announced in January 2022 as part of the new DC Universe’s first chapter, called “Gods & Monsters”. At the time, only the lead-off film, then Superman: Legacy but now simply Superman, had a release date: July 11, 2025. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, inspired by the Tom King and Bilquis Evely comic was positioned fourth out of five films, only ahead of the Swamp Thing movie to be directed by James Mangold. Introducing the film, Gunn described this version of the Girl of Steel would allow audiences to “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. She’s much more hardcore; she’s not exactly the Supergirl we’re used to seeing.” Variety has given the apparent plot blurb that “takes Supergirl away from Earth as she travels through the cosmos with her trusty canine, Krypto the Superdog, in order to escape a life stuck perpetually under the shadow of her cousin, Superman. She encounters an alien girl named Ruthye, who is bent on revenge for the death of her father, and recruits Supergirl to help her.”
Supergirl finds its writer, Ana Nogueira, in November. Come January, almost a year to the day from announcement later, House of the Dragon actress Milly Alcock is officially announced cast as Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl. The very next day, DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn reinforces to me directly the elasticity of the slate, especially due to the dual strikes: “Some things have shifted around - some projects now earlier, others later, & other new projects are being developed. Like I said from the beginning, we are going to put things in production based on when we have a great script, & nothing else. And luckily we’ve had some great scripts take us by surprise.” By that point and even where we are today, of the two films Woman of Tomorrow has now surpassed on the schedule, only Brave and the Bold has anything in terms of cast or crew. The Flash director Andy Muschietti will be taking the same duties there, as reported in June. But by early April 2024, they too were in talks with a director, Dumb Money’s Craig Gillespie, who was confirmed booked for the gig as part of today’s news. A writer, director, and the star all taken care of? Of course it was the project that was moved earlier and bumping The Authority and Brave and the Bold down.
Gunn did address the slowdown of The Authority in particular, telling a fan “We won’t green light a film until we have a finished script we’re happy with and, in general, we won’t cast a film until the script is finished. This is why some projects are moving faster than anticipated and others more slowly. It’s always gonna be quality first no matter what.” With Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow moved up, it knocks out two more possibilities of where Kara will first appear, as she’s set to make her debut before her headlining movie, though it has not been explicitly confirmed. The timing of her casting made sense for Superman, as nothing beyond it had been cast, and is where everyone believed it to be anyway.
Source: Variety