Supergirl (2026)
Supergirl is a 2026 action movie directed by Craig Gillespie and Ana Nogueira, with a running time of 1h 48m. It stars Milly Alcock, Eve Ridley and Matthias Schoenaerts.
This Supergirl is not the sunny cousin next door. Milly Alcock plays Kara Zor-El as someone harder and lonelier, pulled off Earth and across the galaxy on a quest for vengeance and justice after a ruthless enemy strikes close to home. She falls in with an unlikely companion for the journey, trading the usual city-saving for something rawer and more personal. Craig Gillespie directs from a script by Ana Nogueira, with James Gunn and Peter Safran producing under DC Studios. It is the second film in the rebooted DC Universe, and it reaches for space opera more than skyline rescue.
Quick answers
What is Supergirl about?
This Supergirl is not the sunny cousin next door. Milly Alcock plays Kara Zor-El as someone harder and lonelier, pulled off Earth and across the galaxy on a quest for vengeance and justice after a ruthless enemy strikes close to home. She falls in with an unlikely companion for the journey, trading the usual city-saving for something rawer and more personal. Craig Gillespie directs from a script by Ana Nogueira, with James Gunn and Peter Safran producing under DC Studios. It is the second film in the rebooted DC Universe, and it reaches for space opera more than skyline rescue.
When was Supergirl released?
Supergirl was released on 24 June 2026.
How long is Supergirl?
Supergirl runs 1h 48m.
Who made Supergirl?
Supergirl was directed by Craig Gillespie, Ana Nogueira and Claudia Sarne.
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Cast
- Milly Alcock as Supergirl
- Eve Ridley as Ruthye
- Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem
- Jason Momoa as Lobo
- David Krumholtz as Zor-El
- Emily Beecham as Alura In-Ze
- David Corenswet as Superman
- Kadiff Kirwan as Bomar Vran
- Thalissa Teixeira as Mareck Vran
- Ferdinand Kingsley as Elias Knoll
- Emily Piggford as Delilah Knoll
- Diarmaid Murtagh as Drom Baxton
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A few thoughts on Supergirl
If the interstellar, revenge-driven scope appeals more than the cape, the catalog has space opera to match. On Basilisk Station sends a steel-willed woman commander into a lonely frontier posting. The Risen Empire opens a war across a decaying galactic dynasty, and God Emperor of Dune broods on power, isolation, and near-godlike strength stretched across millennia.
Space operas that trade city rescues for the far galaxy
This Supergirl leaves Earth almost immediately, chasing her enemy across the galaxy instead of saving a skyline. These share that scope: star-spanning adventures of strange worlds, ragtag allies, and battles fought light years from home, where the map is the whole galaxy rather than one city.
Kryptonians and the weight of the Superman name
Supergirl is Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin, carrying the same powers with a harder, lonelier temperament. These films work the same mythology: the last children of a dead world, the burden of the crest they wear, and what it costs to stand for something when you could level anything.
Heroes driven by revenge instead of duty
Kara sets out in Supergirl for vengeance after a ruthless enemy strikes close to home, not to be a symbol. These stories run on the same fuel: fighters chasing payback down long, personal roads, where the whole mission is settling a score and the real cost is what the chase does to them.
Women who carry the whole fight alone
Milly Alcock plays a Supergirl who is harder and more isolated than the sunny cousin next door, shouldering the mission largely by herself. These center the same figure: solitary women with power to spare and no one to share the weight, driven by conviction more than any team standing behind them.