SUPERGIRL’s IMAX Runtime Reveal Proves This Movie Is Going Big in a Serious Way
The upcoming Supergirl movie just dropped a detail that gives fans a much clearer idea of its scale, and it sounds like this DC adventure is aiming to dominate the biggest screens possible.
Director Craig Gillespie didn’t just tease action or story beats, he revealed how much of the film is actually designed for IMAX, and it’s a pretty massive chunk.
At CCXP Mexico 2026 in Mexico City, Gillespie took the stage alongside star Milly Alcock, where they showed off 15 minutes of footage along with a new trailer. While that alone got the crowd hyped, Gillespie reveled how much IMAX footage the film will include.
“There’s some massive action sequences in this. We have a lot of action, a lot of large set pieces that in fact we’re going to have it in IMAX as well, which I think we have about an hour and ten minutes of IMAX footage, so it’s really exciting and we didn’t hold back.”
That’s not a small flex. An hour and ten minutes of IMAX footage means more than half of Supergirl is built to fully expand across those towering screens.
That kind of presentation is usually reserved for select sequences in big franchise films, not the majority of the runtime. If you’re watching it outside IMAX, you’ll still see the same scenes, but the image will be cropped, meaning some of the visual composition crafted by cinematographer Rob Hardy won’t fully come through.
The footage shown at the event was the same shown at CinemaCon, and it gave a taste of what that scale actually looks like. One sequence throws Kara and Ruthye onto a bus that suddenly becomes the center of a chaotic alien robbery.
It escalates fast into a full-on fight with alien attackers. Another moment takes things in a completely different direction, with Kara flying straight into the sun to recharge, and Jason Momoa’s Lobo makes an appearance, with new hints about how he enters the story.
Beyond the spectacle, Gillespie also spoke about what makes Alcock the right choice to carry a film of this size. “She’s so accessible, like she literally doesn’t have to be saying anything, and she can emote so much, and she’s so vulnerable with that, and it’s like that’s one of the superpowers.”
Between the IMAX-heavy presentation and the wild set pieces teased so far, Supergirl looks like it’s leaning hard into its cosmic scope while still keeping Kara’s emotional core front and center.
Supergirl hits theaters on June 26, 2026.