“Supergirl” Trailer: Milly Alcock’s Kara Zor‑El Goes Rogue to Save Krypto—and Herself
The official trailer for director Craig Gillespie’s Supergirl opens with a concerned Clark Kent (David Corenswet) checking in on Kara Zo-El (Milly Alcock). Kara is Clark’s hard-partying cousin, who keeps bouncing from one planet to another. “I’m just worried that you’re not going to find your stride here if you keep going off-world all the time, Kara.” Kara glares at Clark, who’s in his full Superman regalia, the beacon of light on Earth, a young man who appears to be Kara’s polar opposite. “I’m worried you’re not going to find your people,” Clark says. “That’s the thing, Clark—I have no people,” Kara replies. She does have a dog, though, the redoubtable Krypto, who was such a big part of James Gunn’s table setter, Superman.
Supergirl is going to be a very different kind of movie than Superman, because Kara is a very different kind of hero than Clark. The official trailer reveals the events that put the film into motion, and it’s all about Krypto. The dog is all the family Kara has, and when he’s shot with an alien dart with only three days to live, unless Kara can track down the shooter and get the antidote, Krypto will die. This is something that Kara cannot abide.
In her travels to find the antidote, Kara runs into Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley), a young girl whose entire family was killed by Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts). Kara now faces a choice she’s not quite used to: she can help Ruthye and become, like her cousin, a proper superhero, or go her own way. As the official trailer makes clear, Kara will fight for Ruthye, she’ll fight for Krypto, and she’ll do her damndest to save the day. In the process, she runs across Lobo (Jason Momoa), marking Momoa’s re-entry into DC as the interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter, a far darker character than Momoa’s long run as Aquaman.
The script comes from Ana Nogueira and was inspired by Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s comic-book miniseries “Supergirl: Women of Tomorrow,” which doesn’t shy away from Kara Zor-El’s rougher edges.
“This is really an anti-hero story,” said Gillepsie at a press event in New York. “She’s got a lot of demons, a lot of baggage coming into this, which is very different from where Superman is in his life.”
Check out the official trailer below. Supergirl hits theaters on June 26.
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Featured image: Caption: Milly Alcock as SUPERGIRL in DC Studios’ and Warner Bros. Pictures’ “SUPERGIRL”, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures
