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Craig Gillespie at the Zurich Film Festival at Kino Corso on September 29, 2023.Photo: Joshua Sammer/Getty Images for ZFF (Getty Images)
We’re still over a year away from James Gunn’s Superman arriving in theaters to usher in an new era for DC Studios, but the superhero universe that will follow is already taking shape. Supergirl may now have its director in Craig Gillespie, whose filmography includes Disney villain prequel Cruella, sports mockumentary I, Tonya, and the 2011 Fright Night remake.
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Deadline broke the news that Gillespie is in talks for the gig, noting “the plan is for DC to shoot the movie for Q4 after they’ve completed James Gunn’s Superman which is shooting in Georgia for a July 11, 2025 theatrical release.” Though it’s not confirmed that the character of Supergirl—played by Milly Alcock, the House of the Dragon star who won the role after a competitive casting search—will appear in Superman, the trade reminds us that “she’ll appear in another DC project before making her big screen debut as the Angel of the Sky.”
Gunn and his co-DC Studios leader Peter Safran are both on board as Supergirl producers. The movie has a script by Ana Nogueira—who was just hired to pen DC’s live-action Teen Titans movie—and is inspired by Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow comic series. So far, there’s no word on when Supergirl might begin filming, or a window for when it might hit theaters.
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