New SUPERGIRL Image Offers a New Look at Milly Alcock as the DCU’s Woman of Tomorrow
Supergirl is gearing up to be the DCU’s next big-screen chapter, and a newly revealed image of Milly Alcock in costume is giving fans a new look at the Kara Zor-El we’re about to meet.
Inspired by Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s acclaimed comic, the film takes Superman’s cousin far from Earth and drops her into a sprawling interstellar story that leans hard into sci-fi and emotion.
This isn’t just another cape-and-punch adventure. It’s a journey shaped by loss, anger, and a worldview that couldn’t be more different from Clark Kent’s. The movie also marks the DCU debut of Jason Momoa as Lobo, which alone makes this one feel like required viewing.
The new image, courtesy of USA Today, shows Alcock fully stepping into the role, and this version of Kara, though, is cut from a very different cloth from the other versions of the character we’ve seen broguht to life.
DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran previously explained how the film separates Kara from her famous cousin on a fundamental level.
"I think you got a sense of it from watching the teaser, but Kara is such a different character than her cousin Clark, right? He was raised by loving parents on Earth when he was a baby. She spent the first 18 years of her life watching her planet die."
"And so she has a lot of trauma that she brings into the movie, and I think that that very much is reflected in the movie itself. Where her starting point is, is a very different place than where we met Clark.”
That emotional weight was a major factor in casting Alcock, according to James Gunn, who was sold on her almost immediately.
"I knew that Milly was something special from the moment that she first auditioned with us. Which is really funny thinking back on it because my wife [Jennifer Holland] played Ruthye during the auditions. She played Ruthye in all the emotional scenes."
"And so Jen was reading it [with] Milly," the filmmaker continued. "The only person that's shorter than Jen is Milly [Laughs]. And she’s treating her like a little kid, and they're crying and all this stuff. And it's crazy! But the scenes were so emotional."
Directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Ana Nogueira, Supergirl follows Kara as she’s pulled into a mission of vengeance and justice after a brutal threat hits painfully close to home. Reluctantly teaming up with an unexpected ally, she’s forced to confront her past while carving out her own place in the universe.
Alcock is joined by Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, and Momoa. The film is produced by DC Studios and will be released worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Supergirl arrives in theaters on June 26, 2026.
