In a serious departure from the setting of the 2025 Superman movie, James Gunn has confirmed that Earth received’t be a location the place Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor-El travels within the DCU’s upcoming Supergirl film. Fairly, the whole thing of the movie will happen throughout varied planets in outer area.
Gunn revealed these particulars throughout DC Studios’ Supergirl International Digital Teaser Trailer Launch Occasion, which included a press convention Q&A with Supergirl star Milly Alcock and director Craig Gillespie that he moderated. I used to be in attendance on the press convention on behalf of Display Rant at CCXP in Brazil, the place Supergirl’s teaser trailer was screened for us forward of the James Gun-led Q&A.
One query towards the top of the convention requested Alcock and Gillespie what followers of Gunn’s hit Superman film can be shocked about in Supergirl. After Alcock and Gillespie famous how tonally distinct the movie is to Superman, the director and James Gunn elaborated on one other main distinction, specifically Supergirl’s setting and worldbuilding:
Craig Gillespie: “The entire film takes place in outer area.”
James Gunn: “Yeah, the entire film is in outer area.”
Craig Gillespie: “It is a very completely different world to begin with.”
James Gunn: “The outer area factor is an enormous a part of it, as a result of it’s a area fantasy.”
Craig Gillespie: “And so proper there we’re creating an entire new set piece.”
With your complete film being set in area, that appears to curb any hopes of Supergirl briefly returning to Earth to go to her cousin Clark Kent or battling any villains there. Whereas there’s been no affirmation on whether or not David Corenswet’s Superman will seem in Supergirl or not, there’s nonetheless the prospect that he might pop up on one of many planets Kara is flying round to as a way to communicate together with her.
As a “area fantasy,” Supergirl can also be set to introduce lots extra planets into the DCU. Gunn confirmed that Kara is hopping round varied planets with crimson suns as a way to inhibit her powers, although she’ll even be going to planets with yellow suns aside from Earth that strengthen her skills. Whereas Superman remained on Earth, Supergirl avoiding that core location permits the Milly Alcock-led movie to broaden extra on the franchise’s worldbuilding outdoors its extra acquainted confines.
In some methods, that brings Supergirl nearer to James Gunn’s iconic Guardians of the Galaxy motion pictures from the MCU. Whereas most MCU motion pictures are set totally on Earth, the Guardians of the Galaxy sequence noticed its heroes and conflicts largely function from outer area and completely different planets.
As director Craig Gillespie famous on the press convention, Supergirl gives a completely new set piece to tell apart the movie from Superman. Nevertheless, it additionally permits for a extra contemporary, starkly contrasting introduction into her fully completely different upbringing and residential from Clark.
Superman is comfy on Earth and the life he’s made below a yellow solar. Emphasizing how completely different the 2 cousins are, he would not be capable to perceive Kara’s desire for the transient chaos of transferring throughout so many various and unfamiliar planets, species, atmospheres, risks, and allies all through outer area.
Whereas Supergirl’s teaser trailer has now supplied a glimpse at a few of the planets Kara will journey to within the 2026 film, it’s clear they’re solely the start of the DCU’s daring new space-set fantasy.
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June 26, 2026
- Director
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Craig Gillespie
- Writers
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Ana Nogueira, Otto Binder, Tom King, Al Plastino
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Matthias Schoenaerts
Krem of the Yellow Hills
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Eve Ridley
Ruthye Mary Knolle
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