Well, that was relatively fast. After a few weeks of screen-testing, James Gunn and Peter Safran, the co-CEOs of DC Studios, have found their Supergirl: it’s Milly Alcock, known for her breakout turn in HBO’s “House Of The Dragon.” Alcock played the younger version of Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in the first half of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” spin-off (later, Emma D’Arcy took over the teenage and adult versions of the character as the series went through a time leap forward.
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Other actresses vying for the role included “CODA” actress Emilia Jones and Meg Donnelly, who already voiced Supergirl in such DC animated movies “Legion of Superheroes” and “Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One.”
Since Gunn and Safran cast her early, before a director was brought on for her “Supergirl” movie, it is strongly assumed that Alcock will appear as the character, however briefly, in Gunn’s “Superman: Legacy,” which shoots in March of this year for a summer 2025 release. Gunn recently revealed on Threads that the film will not be a Superman origin story, instead placing Clark Kent already in the middle of his stint as the hero and as a reporter at The Daily Planet newspaper (and for those wondering, Gunn also confirmed that Batman won’t appear).
Back when DC’s Gods and Monsters Part 1 was first revealed, Gunn said Supergirl would be based on the “Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow” by author Tom King, and that could end up being the title of the movie, too.
No director is set yet, and apparently, none have even met for the part because the script, being written by Ana Nogueira (who wrote an earlier version of “Supergirl” when it was meant for Sasha Calle, who played the character in “The Flash”), isn’t completed yet.
“In our series, we 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,” Gunn explained in that first Gods and Monsters video. “And then [she] 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.” [The Wrap]
