Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa are looking to fetch a big response to their forthcoming movie Supergirl.
The two stars joined DC Studios co-head Peter Safran onstage at CinemaCon for Warner Bros.‘ presentation. The studio releases director Craig Gillespie’s film June 26. Alcock stars as Kara Zor-El, and her character, who is the cousin to Superman, was introduced during a brief appearance in last summer’s David Corenswet-led Superman when she dropped in to pick up her rambunctious dog Krypto.
The trio debuted an extended sequence showing Kara on a voyage packed with nefarious characters when tech pirates interrupt their ride. “They want the bus. They want the fuel. They want the engine,” she says. “My guess is they want to rob us all blind first.”
After some intense fight scenes, Kara attempts to don a space suit but is pulled outside the vehicle before she can. She is shown floating listlessly through space until her superpowers finally kick in.
“She’s flying towards the sun,” one character exclaims.
Alcock told the crowd, “This journey’s been incredibly transformative for me, not only personally but professionally.”
Momoa said of playing Lobo, “This is a dream come true. This is the comic I collected.”
Given that Momoa previously played fellow DC Comics standout Aquaman, Safran asked Momoa what would happen if the two characters were to face off.
“I’ll be honest,” the star replied. “I think they’d take one look at each other and have a few hundred beers and be like, ‘I like this guy.’” He joked that they would want James Gunn to make a movie about the pair, and Safran joked that this movie would be hitting theaters in 2031.
Gillespie was also on the stage and praised the title hero as “complex and flawed and complicated.”
Additionally, Safran revealed about the sequel to Superman: “Cameras roll next week on Man of Tomorrow.“
Gillespie (Cruella) helmed Supergirl from a script by Ana Nogueira. Gunn and Peter Safran serve as producers. Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz and Emily Beecham round out the cast.
The filmmaker previously discussed the movie at a press event late last year. “This is really an anti-hero story,” Gillespie said at the time. “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.”
CinemaCon is the annual event for exhibitors and Hollywood studios that runs this year from April 13-16. It is the official convention of Cinema United.
