{"id":248862,"date":"2026-01-24T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248862\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:28:10","slug":"jason-momoa-is-lobo-james-gunn-unveils-first-look-in-supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/248862\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa Is Lobo: James Gunn Unveils First Look in &#8216;Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">James Gunn has shared footage of <a id=\"auto-tag_jason-momoa\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jason-momoa\/\" data-tag=\"jason-momoa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Momoa<\/a> as antihero Lobo in \u201c<a id=\"auto-tag_supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow\/\" data-tag=\"supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DT3FtQQgPE0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">video posted to Instagram<\/a> on Friday, Momoa is seen stepping out of his film trailer wearing fangs. \u201cFinally,\u201d he says to the camera before driving off to set. The video then cuts to an official look at Momoa\u2019s Lobo in the upcoming superhero movie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">\u201cSupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow\u201d \u2014 starring \u201cHouse of the Dragon\u201d actor Milly Alcock as the eponymous hero (aka Kara Zor-El) \u2014 is the second film in Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s rebooted DC Universe following 2025\u2019s \u201cSuperman,\u201d starring David Corenswet as the Man of Steel and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">Craig Gillespie directed \u201cSupergirl,\u201d which also includes Matthias Schoenaerts as villain Krem of the Yellow Hill and Eve Ridley as Ruthye Mary Knolle. Ana Nogueira (\u201cThe Vampire Diaries\u201d) wrote the screenplay based on the series of DC comics by Tom King and Bilquis Evely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">Momoa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/film\/news\/jason-momoa-lobo-supergirl-world-of-tomorrow-1236262039\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">casting was announced<\/a> in December 2024. At the time, the \u201cAquaman\u201d actor confirmed the news by sharing a quote from a 2023 interview with Fandango.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">\u201cI collect comics, and I don\u2019t do so much anymore, but he was always my favorite, and I always wanted to play Lobo, because I\u2019m like, \u2018Hello? It\u2019s the perfect role,\u2019\u201d he said in the interview. \u201cI mean, listen. If they call and ask me to play him, it\u2019s a fuck yeah. I haven\u2019t received that call, so I don\u2019t want to put any fake news out there, but if they ever call me and ask me to play, or ask me to audition, I\u2019m there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m \">\u201cSupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow\u201d hits theaters June 26.<\/p>\n<p>        Love Film &amp; TV?<\/p>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\">\n            Get your daily dose of everything happening in music, film and TV in Australia and abroad.        <\/p>\n<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/spinner.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/jason-momoa-lobo-first-look-supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow-1236639176\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Variety US<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Gunn has shared footage of Jason Momoa as antihero Lobo in \u201cSupergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.\u201d In a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,4309,409,111,139,69,98836],"class_list":["post-248862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-momoa","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}