{"id":343865,"date":"2025-12-12T06:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343865\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T06:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:41:10","slug":"james-gunn-weighs-in-on-supergirl-as-new-teaser-trailer-video-drops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/343865\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Weighs in on ‘Supergirl’ as New Teaser Trailer Video Drops"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tKara Zor-El introduced herself to us last summer by crashing into the Fortress of Solitude and asking the host why he moved the door<\/a>. She took a more polite path to the fore last Sunday in the basement of a New York City hotel, emerging onto a small stage wide-eyed and slightly amused.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s gonna happen. Shit,\u201d said Zor-El, as given human form by Milly Alcock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tYou can forgive the actress her wonderment. Supergirl<\/a> has had a long flight to the present, having begun development in 2018, gotten postponed amid the pandemic in 2020, scrapped by new Warner Bros<\/a>. Discovery chief David Zaslav in 2022 and then retooled<\/a> as part of James Gunn<\/a>\u2019s transitioning of the DCEU to the DCU<\/a> in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSo long ago did this all start, of course, that the House of the Dragon star wasn\u2019t initially cast as the character. That honor belonged to Sasha Calle, who even appeared in 2023\u2019s The Flash. But with Alcock and the directorial hand of Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) on board and the film now shot, Supergirl could finally begin its slow marketing rollout ahead of its theatrical release June 26.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJames Gunn speaks to Milly Alcock about Supergirl at Artspace at Public Hotel in New York City on Dec. 7, 2025. The movie will look to take the character in a new messily human direction when it opens in June.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSteven Zeitchik<\/p>\n

\n\tIn this incarnation, according to a teaser trailer shown at the hotel event and dropped online Thursday, Kara Zor-el is a universe-hopping party girl in her early 20s thrown into some intergalactic battles after a particularly self-pitying solitary birthday binge; she is on a mission of vengeance on behalf of the alien girl Ruthye and gets in deeper than she realizes. Ana Nogueira\u2019s script, inspired by the comic-book miniseries Supergirl: Women of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely, leans hard into the character\u2019s messiness.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis is really an anti-hero story. She\u2019s got a lot of demons, a lot of baggage coming into this, which is very different forms where superman<\/a> is in his life,\u201d Gillespie told the New York crowd.<\/p>\n

\n\tAdded Gunn from the stage. \u201cSo many times female superheroes are so perfect. She\u2019s not that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe paused. \u201cLike male superheroes have been allowed to be for a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe character showed her unvarnished side onscreen, at one point noting that Superman \u201csees the good in everyone, and I see the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe event had a bit of an unexpected vibe, with attendees going Comic-Con crazy inside the space while, outside, the company making the film had just been cast into extraordinary limbo. Only three days earlier its CEO Zaslav said Warner Bros. would be sold to Netflix, and the day after the event Paramount owner David Ellison would launch a hostile takeover bid for the studio, making the room feel a little like a bar mitzvah whose guests had just been told an asteroid was heading toward earth; sure, the world may end tomorrow, but tonight can\u2019t we just hang out and do the Dougie?<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the very least this film would not be disrupted by the corporate drama, as any new owner would not be likely to clear regulatory hurdles and close the deal before early 2027 (incidentally, the same time that the current contracts expire for Gunn and his DC Studios co-chief and producing partner Peter Safran).<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd so more important matters were at hand: getting a new movie off on the right boot. Supergirl\u2019s journey to the big screen has been hexed, in a sense, dating all the way back to 1984 and the Helen Slater bombfest and all the uncertainty leading up to the Superman release. But Gunn and Safran think a whole new day dawns.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDo you feel like you\u2019re in a much better spot?,\u201d The Hollywood Reporter asked Gunn. \u201cOh, yeah,\u201d he said emphatically.<\/p>\n

\n\tSafran believes the franchise is in a much different position than even six months ago.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe came in as a little bit of the underdog,\u201d the producer and executive told THR on Sunday at the event as he reflected about the summer release of Superman. Asked if the box office success of the film raised expectations to the point that he and Gunn had a target on their back, the producer waved aside the concern. \u201cNah,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause we\u2019re just getting started.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kara Zor-El introduced herself to us last summer by crashing into the Fortress of Solitude and asking the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[63490,5054,88,208,92573,172179,21545,209,5251],"class_list":{"0":"post-343865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comic-books","9":"tag-dcu","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-james-gunn","12":"tag-milly-alcock","13":"tag-peter-saffran","14":"tag-supergirl","15":"tag-superman","16":"tag-warner-bros"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}