Just the other day, we noted that James Gunn has launched a multi-year expansion of DC Studios: five films, five TV series, and that’s already about as long as a ten-year plan that’s reportedly not all he has to unveil in his “Gods And Monsters” phase of his DC Universe reboot. But so far, only one film has a release date, “Superman: Legacy,” due in summer 2025, which Gunn will write and direct himself. But he can’t do everything, and those other four films need filmmakers and dates to get a plan in place. Are they coming? What about Supergirl?
Well, in short, yes, and kinda. While there’s no director for “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow,” there is a writer (Ana Nogueira, who had also been hired to direct the previous iteration of “Supergirl” with Sasha Calle from the old DCEU that never flew). Moreover, screen testing for the lead is already underway.
Deadline reveals that names like Milly Alcock (“Game of Thrones” spin-off “House Of The Dragon,” Emilia Jones (“CODA”), and Meg Donnelly (who is already the voice of Supergirl in the DC animated movies “Legion of Superheroes” and “Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One”) are in the mix and testing.
James Gunn is apparently part of this casting process in lieu of a director attached to “Supergirl,” and this gives off the strong suggestion whoever they cast will appear in “Superman: Legacy,” if only in a small cameo. A search for a director is still ongoing. Still, one wonders how DC Studios will attract filmmaking talent if all the scripts and casts are already attached before they’re on board. They have to adopt another filmmaker’s choices (kind of like what happened with Zack Snyder’s Snyderverse for DC, and we saw how that went…)
In his Gods and Monsters launch video, Gunn explained the fundamental differences between Superman and Supergirl (which you can watch below).
“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, 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.”
“Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” currently has no release date, but maybe if a script comes together and a director becomes attached this year, it could land a 2026 release date. “Superman: Legacy” is currently due July 11, 2025. It will not surprise if whoever plays Supergirl appears, given that screen-testing is already in the works.
, Emilia Jones, and Meg Donnelly are in the mix for the lead role of DC Studios''Supergirl' movie.){kind=link}