DCU Chief James Gunn Shares First Look at Supergirl Movie Ahead of Teaser Trailer Dropping This Week

James Gunn has announced that Supergirl volition get its debut trailer this week, portion offering a tease of what’s to come.

Hot connected the heels of the uncover of the Supergirl costume astatine CCXP 2025 successful São Paulo, Brazil, the DC Studios co-CEO confirmed the trailer merchandise alongside a little snippet of footage showing Kara Zor-El patiently waiting for a spaceship to onshore adjacent to her. It is simply a benignant of intergalactic autobus stand? If so, wherever is Supergirl traveling to? Supergirl, played by Game of Thrones spin-off House of the Dragon prima Milly Alcock, is seen wearing sunglasses, upwind blowing her hairsbreadth and overgarment arsenic the spaceship lands. She doesn’t look successful the champion of moods. She mightiness adjacent beryllium hungover from a large night.

Supergirl is heavy inspired by Tom King and Bilquis Evely's comic, Woman of Tomorrow, which features a precise antithetic Supergirl than audiences are possibly accustomed to. In July, Gunn said the DC Universe mentation of Supergirl is “a full mess.”

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As revealed successful this summer’s DCU kickstarter Superman, Supergirl got drunk connected a satellite bathed successful the airy of a reddish prima (it’s intolerable for Superman oregon immoderate Kryptonian to get drunk connected Earth owed to the empowering effects of our yellowish sun). But beyond this, intelligibly Supergirl is suffering from intelligence wellness issues that are driving her to drink, the effect of a precise antithetic upbringing compared to her cousin’s.

“I mean, I deliberation arsenic we learn, she's had a wholly antithetic inheritance from Superman,” Gunn continued. “A overmuch much hard background. He's had this fantastic upbringing by these 2 parents that loved him and were precise healthy. And her inheritance was overmuch antithetic than that. And she's ended up antithetic than her cousin.”

“In our story, we person Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by incredibly loving parents,” Gunn has explained. “Kara was connected Krypton. She was connected a portion of Krypton that drifted distant from the satellite and she lived determination for the archetypal 14 years of her beingness successful a horrible concern wherever she watched everyone astir her die. So, she’s a overmuch harsher and much f***ed up Supergirl than you’ve been utilized to frankincense far.”

Recently, Gunn has called Supergirl a “space fantasy” — and said it volition person a antithetic code than Superman. It’s much similar Gunn’s ain Guardians of the Galaxy, he’s said. For more, cheque retired IGN’s article, Superman Introduces the Girl of Steel: Here's Why This Version of Supergirl Is So Different.

Supergirl besides promises to proceed the House of El subplot from Superman arsenic she celebrates her 21st day by traveling crossed the postulation with her dog, Krypto (last seen being a precise atrocious lad successful Superman). We cognize Lobo is successful the movie, played by Jason Momoa, but not overmuch else.

DC Studios is presently nether a large woody of scrutiny pursuing the quality of Netflix’s $82.7 cardinal woody to get Warner Bros. Some are acrophobic astir the aboriginal of theatrical releases for Warner Bros. movies, which includes each films released by DC Studios. But Netflix has insisted the 2 businesses volition run independently until the woody is signed, sealed, and delivered, which it expects could instrumentality up to 18 months.

Supergirl has a June 26, 2026 merchandise date, truthful you'd ideate it's harmless from immoderate imaginable determination from Netflix to merchandise it connected the streaming level astir oregon soon aft launch.

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