Fandango released an exclusive image Wednesday of Milly Alcock suited up as Kara Zor-El, the latest public glimpse of Supergirl ahead of its June 2026 release.
The photo, described by Polygon as showing Kara riding a space bus, is the clearest single-frame reveal to date of Alcock in the dual role of Supergirl and Kara Zor-El. It arrives as the studio pushes the film toward a summer wide release and follows industry reports that Alcock first appeared in the fledgling DC Universe in last year’s Superman.
Supergirl is a DC Studios feature directed by Craig Gillespie from a screenplay by Ana Nogueira and produced by James Gunn and Peter Safran. The cast bookings include Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham and Jason Momoa, who is playing Lobo. The film adapts the 2022 comic Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely and, by studio schedule, will open internationally on June 24, 2026, before hitting theaters and IMAX across North America on June 26, 2026.
The production’s logline makes clear the scale: Kara Zor-El reluctantly joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstellar journey of vengeance and justice after a ruthless adversary strikes close to home. That description, combined with the new image, does two jobs at once — it reminds viewers this is a space-spanning tale and supplies a concrete visual cue about the film’s tone and palette.
Yet the new still also creates a tension. Supergirl is drawn from King and Evely’s 2022 comic, a source many expect to yield a darker, more intimate story; the space-bus photograph reads as oddly quotidian against the promise of epic vengeance and justice. The contrast between the comic’s reputation and a publicity image of Kara on public transport in space raises an obvious question about how literal the film will be in its adaptation and how the filmmakers will marry the comic’s moral heft to blockbuster spectacle.
That creative balance will be central to how audiences and critics receive the film when it opens. The producers attached — Safran and Gunn — are shepherding a broader DC Universe rollout, and Gillespie’s directing credit plus Nogueira’s script credit frame Supergirl as a piece of that larger plan. For viewers focused on star power, Momoa’s casting as Lobo places a known genre actor in a role that, on paper, promises physicality and presence opposite Alcock’s Kara.
For Milly Alcock, the image functions as a milestone: it is both confirmation of her lead status in a high-profile DC feature and the first major marketing shot that frames her take on Kara Zor-El outside of story synopsis. For Momoa, the casting is now public and tied to a named character — Lobo — making the answer to any casting question direct: he is in Supergirl as Lobo.
Supergirl opens internationally June 24, 2026, and in North America June 26, 2026; between now and those dates the studio will likely roll out more images and trailers that clarify how the film translates its comic source into the screen version audiences will see this summer.
