[Spoiler alert: This article contains spoilers for Superman (2025). PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION!]
Now that the Man of Steel is back on the big screen, and flourishing at that, opening to US$217 million at the global box office, the attention will soon turn to his cousin. Following the cameo of Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, at the end of Superman (2025), film director and DC Studios co-head James Gunn has released a first-look image for her upcoming solo outing in 2026.
Look Out. 2026. pic.twitter.com/IdAvUNfcXx
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) July 16, 2025
The full get-up worn by House of the Dragon breakout star Milly Alcock is featured in it, alongside a tweaked tagline from Superman‘s “Look Up” to “Look Out”. Considering the version that was shown in the David Corenswet-led pic, the forewarning seems about accurate — instead of the sweet-hearted, well-behaved superheroine that fans know from the 1984 movie or CW’s Arrowverse, she appears on-screen drunk after crash-landing into the Fortress of Solitude, calls Superman a b**tch, and sarcastically thanks him for dog-sitting Krypto.
“She’s a total mess. I mean, I think as we learn, she’s had a completely different background from Superman. A much more difficult background,” he explained. “He’s had this wonderful upbringing by these two parents that loved him and were very healthy. And her background was much different than that.”
Alcock is set to reprise her role in Supergirl, based on Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow comic series. The superhero flick initially retained the title, but now goes by Supergirl after Gunn expressed fatigue over “the superhero title, colon, other-name thing.” In the original work, the Maid of Might teams up with a young alien girl, who’s looking to avenge her father’s murder by the villain Krem of the Yellow Hills, on Earth after she was forced to watch her loved ones die on her home planet.
The second cinematic instalment in Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC Universe is directed by Craig Gillespie (Cruella, I, Tonya) and will hit theatres on 26 June 2026. In other DC-related news, industry sources have told Variety that the studio’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, is also fast-tracking a Wonder Woman reboot. No other details were shared, however, with Warner Bros. declining comment.
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