Alcock played the young Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen in the
first five episodes of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, and many fans were
left disappointed when she was replaced as her character aged.
Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow was first announced by DC
Studios co-CEO James Gunn in January last year.
According to reports in Deadline, also in the running are
CODA and Cat Person star Emilia Jones, as well as Meg Donnelly, who has already
given voice to the character in the DC animated films Legion of Superheroes and
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths Part One.
When the film was unveiled as part of Gunn’s vision for a
new, “unified” DC Universe, the Guardians of the Galaxy director said that the
new movie would feature Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El, “a very different type
of Supergirl”.
“In our series we see the difference between Superman who
was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant,
versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched
everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years
of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl.
“She’s much more hardcore; she’s not exactly the Supergirl
we’re used to seeing.”
The movie will be based on Tom King’s comic book series of
the same name from 2022.
It is possible that, given Gunn’s intention to unify the
films, Supergirl could make an early cameo appearance in the already-announced
Superman Legacy, slated for release on 11 July 2025.
That film is currently in pre-production ahead of shooting
this spring in Georgia. It will star David Corenswet (Clark Kent/Superman),
Rachel Brosnahan (Lois Lane), Nicholas Hoult (Lex Luther), Skyler Gisondo
(Jimmy Olsen) and Sara Sampaio, with Anthony Carrigan (Metamorpho), Isabel
Merced (Hawkgirl) and Nathan Fillion (Guy Gardner/Green Lantern).
Last month, Gunn also announced a new TV spin-off from The
Batman movie called The Arkham Project.
Director Matt Reeves’ Arkham Asylum project had been in
development for some time, but Gunn took to social media to officially confirm
the spin-off was happening and would be a part of the wider DC universe.
A fan asked Gunn on Threads If Reeves was working on more
projects in the “Batverse”, according to Deadline, to which he replied: “Right
now Matt is producing Arkham as a DCU series, so there’s just the two for now.
“Yes. We love Matt as a director and producer so he’ll be producing stories both within his The Batman universe and within the DCU.”