Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No! And it ain’t Superman, either. It’s actually the latest casting announcement for Craig Gillespie’s hotly anticipated new Supergirl movie. After having learned back in January that House Of The Dragon breakout star Milly Alcock is set to play DC’s Maiden of Might in James Gunn’s new-look DC Universe, and then getting word in April that none other than Cruella helmsman Craig Gillespie is being eyed to direct the project, now we know who Kara Zor-El will be facing in the new movie. As Deadline are reporting, Rust And Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts has landed the lead villain role opposite Alcock’s Supergirl.
There’s no official confirmation as of yet which villain from DC’s rogues’ gallery Schoenaerts — who you may best recognise from his turns in the likes of Netflix’s The Old Guard and Jennifer Lawrence spy thriller Red Sparrow — is set to play. However, we do know that this new big screen take on Supergirl is based on legendary comic book writer Tom King’s 2022 Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow run, in which Krem of the Yellow Hills is the primary antagonist. As such, it wouldn’t be wild to imagine that Schoenaerts might be playing the infamous dog- and dad-murdering mean piece of work in this one, whose script is coming from actor-turned-writer Ana Nogueira.
Having beaten off the likes of Emilia Jones, Cailee Spaeny, and Meg Donnelly to become the DCU’s Supergirl, Alcock is reportedly set to make her screen debut as Kara Zor-El in James Gunn’s Superman: Legacy next year before flying solo (geddit?) in Supergirl, which is currently slated to release on 26 June, 2026. And with cameras set to start rolling in the UK in January, Schoenaerts now aboard too alongside Alcock, and Gillespie circling the directorial hotseat, it looks like Gunn and co have really assembled the, er, Krem de la Krem for this one. (We’ll see ourselves out…)