{"id":153953,"date":"2025-12-12T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=153953"},"modified":"2025-12-12T07:32:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:32:58","slug":"supergirl-goes-punk-director-craig-gillespie-calls-her-an-anti-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/supergirl-goes-punk-director-craig-gillespie-calls-her-an-anti-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Supergirl goes punk: Director Craig Gillespie calls her an anti-hero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DC Studios<\/strong> officially pulled back the curtain on its new <strong>Supergirl<\/strong> on December 11, 2025, releasing the first trailer for the upcoming movie and making one thing very clear: This is not your shiny, smiling superhero story! After a brief cameo in James Gunn\u2019s Super Man,\u00a0 Milly Alcock\u2019s Kara Zor El takes center stage in a trailer set to Blondie\u2019s \u201cCall Me.\u201d The trailer opens with\u00a0 Kara alone on her birthday, blowing out a candle and saying that turning 23 should be better than this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YqdAEdkHrwo?si=1aAxAmJgvIUA3HFR\" title=\"Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YqdAEdkHrwo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Director <strong>Craig Gillespie<\/strong> described the film as an anti-hero story, explaining that Kara enters the movie carrying heavy emotional weight and inner demons that sharply contrast Superman\u2019s hopeful mindset. The trailer leans into that energy, sending Supergirl bouncing through intergalactic colonies with sketchy aliens and chaotic moments that might as well reference Guardians of the Galaxy. The trailer also gives a \u201cblink-and-you-miss-it\u201d glimpse into Jason Momoa as Lobo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1999178085753626756?s=20\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Supergirl?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Supergirl<\/a> director Craig Gillespie calls Kara\u2019s character arc \u201can anti-hero story\u201d and teases that her inner turmoil will define the film:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is really an anti-hero story. She\u2019s got a lot of baggage and a lot of demons coming into this, which is very different from where\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BGdj03AIri\">pic.twitter.com\/BGdj03AIri<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1999178085753626756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote><p>\u201cThis is really an anti-hero story. She\u2019s got a lot of baggage and a lot of demons coming into this, which is very different from where Superman is in his life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p>James Gunn says this version of Supergirl is intentionally imperfect and \u201cpunk\u201d at heart, a stark contrast from the female superhero trope. Gillespie directs from a script by Ana Nogueira, inspired by the comic Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow. The movie will land in theaters on June 26, and it\u2019s already shaping up to be an iconic spinoff ready to shake things up in its own way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DC Studios officially pulled back the curtain on its new Supergirl on December 11, 2025, releasing the first trailer for the upcoming movie and making one thing very clear: This is not your shiny, smiling superhero story! After a brief cameo in James Gunn\u2019s Super Man,\u00a0 Milly Alcock\u2019s Kara Zor El takes center stage in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":153956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,1399,7],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-153953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-movies","9":"category-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153953"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=153953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}