Supergirl movie in the works
 

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and DC are developing a feature film based around Supergirl, the heroine and cousin of Superman. Oren Uziel is working on the script, I’ve confirmed. Not a lot more is being divulged at this point, and it comes as a surprise considering most internet chatter has been based on what will next happen for Superman, who after the 2013 film Man of Steel, was conscripted to become key to the plots of Batman V Superman, and more recently Justice League.

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There is no producer on Supergirl at this point. According to DC mythology, the character was a teen when she escaped the doomed planet Krypton along with the infant who grew up as Clark Kent. Supergirl has been played by Melissa Benoist in the Greg Berlanti/Andrew Kreisberg/Allison Adler Warner Bros series creation that heads into Season Four on the CW.

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It is unclear whether Superman will appear in this but if the rumors are true that Warner Bros and DC Entertainment are looking to create a new template for future Superman movies, this would seem a likely place to hatch a new persona. Henry Cavill, coming off a terrific turn opposite Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible Fallout, has played the stoic Man of Steel in the movies so far.

The move toward Supergirl is reflective of a change in focus at the studio, where the superhero effort is now headed by Walter Hamada, who shepherded many of New Line’s genre film hits before moving over when the entire DC braintrust was dismantled after the lackluster Justice League, which grossed $615 million worldwide on a reported $300 million budget.

Finding a different way back to the Superman universe through Supergirl reflects the differing mindset of DC priority titles to be a bit out of the box, and away from a slate which, with the notable exception of the Patty Jenkins-directed Wonder Woman, has resulted in too many films that have been leaden, dark, and not that fun. And expensive — Man of Steel, Batman Vs Superman and Justice League carried around $800 million in production budgets to gross a collective $2.1 billion, according to reported budget estimates.

Upcoming films include The Joker, the Todd Phillips-directed film that will see Joaquin Phoenix play the iconic villain character, with Robert De Niro playing a talk show host who is a formative influence on the character who eventually becomes The Joker. That film shoots in New York next month and bows October 4, 2019. Also on the boards is Birds of Prey, the film that brings Margot Robbie back to her Harley Quinn character, with Cathy Yan (she directed the Sundance pic Dead Pigs) set to direct an ensemble of female antiheroes with production starting in January. And last but hardly least, War For The Planet of the Apes helmer Matt Reeves is hard at work on the next iteration of Batman. The next DC releases are Aquaman and Shazam (the latter was the most entertaining trailer I saw at the recent San Diego Comic-Con). Starting production in February will be The Flash starring Ezra Miller, with Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Daley (Game Night) directing.
Oren Uziel
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Uziel’s script work includes an untitled collaboration with John Krasinski and Pearl Street partners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, as well as a Mortal Kombat, 22 Jump Street, The Cloverfield Paradox, and the in production Sonic The Hedgehog. He’s repped by WME and Writ Large.

The studio is a ways away from what likely will be a search to get a female director (Wonder Woman 1984 and the original all had male writers who worked on those films), and this is in nascent stages. Getting Gal Gadot off the Fast & Furious movies was a huge coup for Warner Bros. Is it too early to wonder who’ll make a terrific Supergirl?

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Yes, yes, right alongside the Batgirl movie and everything else that isn't coming out.

...Kind of funny how things work out exactly like it did in the 70s/80s

Three Superman movies, then a Supergirl movie...is there hope for a Nuclear Man reboot?

What's the current tally of DC movies in pre-production?

Supergirl, Batgirl, The Batman, Birds of Prey, Gotham City Sirens, Suicide Squad 2, Harley Quinn, Harley Quinn & Joker, Blackhawk, Green Lantern Corps, Flash/Flashpoint, Black Adam, non-canon Joker movie, canon Joker movie, Deathstroke, New Gods, Cyborg (dead?), Nightwing, Justice League Dark, Booster Gold. Right?

Shesus...

Some interesting rumors about why this is a thing...apparently talks with Caville aren't going very well and this is a backdoor option to carry on the DCEU franchise without depending on him

https://twitter.com/TheComixKid/stat...28453502226432

What talks with Cavill? No talks have taken place. Every interview with him, he's like, "I have no idea about MoS 2. No one has said anything to me."

Yes there have been. Hardball negotiations according to Grace Randolph

:tlol: Exactly.

If it isn’t Melissa Benoist I don’t want it.

It won't be. Imagine how much more buzz the Justice League movie had been if Grant Gustin had been Flash in it and therefore all of the Arrowverse in continuity? I mean the Arrowverse is the closest thing DC has to the MCU an instead they have this failed movie universe.

Who cares if the Arrowverse had already used some characters DC has plenty of characters and villains for the big screen, it's not like separating things did any good to the DCEU.

Marrying the Arrowverse into the DCEU would have been a huge coup. That is, if Supergirl wasn't on a separate Earth. Then it all gets messy.

She can relabel herself as Powergirl.

If it has nothing to do with the Supergirl TV series then it might be good.

It would have been messy, but it would've been a HELL of a way to further differentiate the MCU and the DCEU.

I read a recent thing from Kevin Smith where he made a concerted argument for how the Nolan Batman trilogy should have been made retroactively part of the DCEU. I think he's right. With just a little nudge, TDKR could have been set up just fine for it.

I mean, think about it. If Bale had been Batman in Batman V Superman... now we'd have horses in the race.

If Bale had been Batman, that means Nolan would possibly have been more involved... which means we could have avoided most of the major problems with Batman V Superman.

Wonder who Chris Nolan would cast for Lex Luthor?

He tends to re-use... maybe DiCaprio?

I still say Joachim Phoenix for Lex, as they originally considered.

I can't see DiCaprio bald, but he could do Lex very, very well. And Phoenix would've been great.

You guys really don't think she'll be a good Supergirl?

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Really hard to follow up Melissa Benoist, man. I know it was only a T.V. series, but honestly she was iconic in the role.

I'm sure she was. I'll never know. I lasted like 2 episodes into her Supergirl show and I just couldn't continue. And I was able to suffer through MOST of The Flash and Arrow's final horrible seasons.

My only critique on Benoist was that she seemed a little too mature for the role. I think Supergirl needs to be a bit more spritely.

I stopped watching literally at the episode where that gorgeous military chick had some dialog resembling "I don't want to spend my life working for angry old white men".

It was around the peak of the "be racist towards white males" movement of the last ten years.

Not too bad. Looks like they gave her some kind of leggings, though... but that may or may not be because she's in a cold environment there.

Hoooo boy... after trying to make the Superman movie and Peacemaker like Guardians of the Galaxy...

https://cosmicbook.news/supergirl-li...YZcCmkY-aKFL0A

... now Gunn is actually saying Supergirl will be like Guardians of the Galaxy.

I love the new supergirl, her sassy drunk ass she can do no wrong https://media.tenor.com/TJ2E4ae9Q6wA...lly-alcock.gif

I wonder if DC will allow James Gunn to show her sleeping around with a lot of alien guys. Usually they don't like portraying female heroines like this but James Gunn could get away with it. They allowed that fully nude orgy scene in Peacemaker when that looked like something straight out of The Boys series instead. I don't expect nudity but they could show her gangbanging multiple guys on some alien planet.

That actress is so unattractive that I'm not sure why you'd want to see that in the first place....

I agree, I don't like her at all.

Well, let's not forget IMJ is into fat chicks

Guys... she's not bad at all*. Just watch her in like the first couple House of the Dragon episodes and see if you feel the same.

* I say this, before seeing her spout James Gunn dialogue and being a girl boss for 2 hours will have a good shot at changing my mind.

Trailer will be our Tuesday the 11th

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I just saw this. I must not have come back to the thread....

wtf? :lol::lol:

Oof... "whatever" instead of "the American Way," now? I'm sure that won't piss off anybody.

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Who is it going to piss off? Boomers?
When was the last time that was even part of the motto? I remember in the 90s they were already making fun of it and parodying by taking out the American Way part. the 90s, that was 3 decades ago.
I mean it's clear the marketing is going for" This is an edgy Supergirl
If anything it's a bit cringe that they still think removing the american way is edgy but it's clearly still triggering boomers like you so I guess it's working

Over half the country, dork.

Like I said with Gunn's Superman when Gunn said Superman would instead be saying "truth, justice and a better tomorrow" instead (before he had the good sense to cut that out, I guess? I don't remember actually hearing it in the movie)... better to just avoid it altogether.

they haven't used it in cartoons or movies since I was born so at least foe 3 decades.It's always been parodied or changed in superman shows/movies for as long as I've been alive. Probably the Superfriends show might have still used it but that's like a 70s show.

I know, I get it, but to even kiiinda trot it out and not actually do the last part ("... the American way") is rightfully going to piss off a huge part of a whole country who Superman is supposed to be an icon for.

But this isn't Superman, this is drunken Supergirl with sunglasses.