DC Studios co-chairmen and co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran have already met with Paramount Skydance Chairman and CEO David Ellison amid the ongoing proposed merger between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Skydance.
At the Blue Carpet premiere in Brooklyn Supergirl On Monday night, executive producer Lars B. Winther confirmed that Ellison had indeed gone to Atlanta, where… Man of tomorrowfollow-up until 2025 Supermancurrently in production. “He came to Trilith [Studios] actually. “This is where we shoot all of our films that James directs,” Winther said. Hollywood Reporter. “He came to Atlanta, we showed him everything, we are having discussions with him.”
After Netflix declined to raise its bid for WBD, and Paramount and WBD agreed to move forward with a massive $111 billion deal, questions arose about Gunn and Safran’s future at the helm of DC Studios. According to Winther, Ellison is currently interested in the duo’s work and their catalog of work, which, when announced in 2023, included 10 titles. “He’s very open to what we’re doing. We have a list and a lot of it — obviously, Clayface It comes out already. We already have it Lanterns TV show. On those things, the train left the station. So we’re good. But he’s a big fan, and he’s been great with us. It kind of gives us what we want. So far everything is good.”
As for where this list will take them once Millie Alcock is at the helm Supergirl Hitting theaters June 26, Winther points out several announced titles and what’s to follow in 2027. Man of tomorrow.
“Supergirl We shot in London. Clayface He was in London. We started shooting Batman 2 “About a week and a half ago in London,” the European Parliament said.Man of tomorrowwhich is what we are photographing now, [Alcock] It’s in this movie. Without giving too much away, this movie ends a certain way, and you see where it goes. She’s done with her wild ways, and now she’s going to try to go back to living with her cousin and being on Earth again. This is where she is at Man of tomorrow. Everything depends on the land. So we have Man of tomorrowWe already know what the next movie will be like after that, and she’s a big part of that.
This transition between SupergirlA more intergalactic story SupermanThe Earth-bound narrative (led by David Corenswet) was a major reason why Kara Zor-El was chosen to star in the next big DC movie.
“We’re trying to build our own digital console and Superman family, which is the main reason we wanted to go there. This comic is also based on Woman of tomorrow. We love this comic, and we haven’t seen it Supergirl “A movie in the making,” Winther said. “We’re not just trying to do what the previous regime did and dig the same characters. We’re trying to bring in some newer characters. So we want to base it on Superman and we felt like that.” [Kara] She was the second best character to build that story. Also, this comic is set between galaxies, and that’s where we wanted to go. Now you have an Earth story and an intergalactic story, so we’re starting to see what the larger DC universe looks like.
While Kara will appear in future DC films, Supergirl Director Craig Gillespie emphasizes that this final act isn’t just a prelude to something to come. “It’s an independent film. That’s what was amazing – when I first met James, he said, ‘We’re treating each one of them as their own graphic novel.’ This is your graphic novel,” the director recalls. “It was both scary and exhilarating not to have any barriers around where we could go. So I really leaned into this as a personal story and went on this journey. I think the journey is not complete, so I would love to see how she continues to explore her own journey. So we’ll see.”
It’s also a movie that, unlike many of its contemporary superhero counterparts, is about an hour and 48 minutes long, as Gillespie says: “I hate long movies.” “Because it’s a road trip between two women,” he explained [Alcock and co-star Eve Ridley]which is very specific about their goals and where they land and go through their trauma, and it just ended up landing there. The more we keep the film simple and true to just their mission, the better the film will be. “There’s a ticking clock on this.”
“We cut some scenes,” Winter added. “We just wanted the audience to be on the journey from the beginning.”
This ride is based on the comic co-created by Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matthews Lopez supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow, and Serves as a Kryptonian origin story. We didn’t do that in Superman. You see the demise of Krypton through [Kara’s] “Different eyes,” Winther said. “She didn’t leave Krypton as a child like Superman. She left when she was 12 or 13. There’s definitely some emotional stuff here because she leaves when she’s close to her parents, and she sees them die.
“This is a story that will really connect with a lot of different people,” Alcock believes. “In the world we live in, we can feel incredibly powerless in the face of what’s going on around us. There’s a real optimism in this story and hopefully the audience can walk away feeling as though they can take back control or deal with events in their own lives and become the person they want to become. It’s okay to be flawed, it’s not a picture of perfection. I think a lot of these films can tell us who we are as well, but I think Kara shows us who we are, and I think that this Really refreshing.
Gillespie, who also directed I’m Tonya and CruellaHe added that Supergirl It will offer a different kind of female-fronted superhero story, and that difference will help make it more broadly relatable. “What honestly interested me most about this movie was how complex this character was,” he said. “A lot of times, especially in female superhero movies, there’s a sense of perfection. Perfect makeup, everything in place. In this, you see a complex, flawed person going through trauma and not having all the answers and accepting who they are. It’s more exciting for me to portray him and connect with him.” “We have to see ourselves in that person rather than something out of reach. That was what I was really passionate about. And then to have her be a mess and be unapologetic about it, and just true to herself? And to James and Pete’s credit, they let us lean into that.”
Supergirl It flies to theaters on Friday.
