When Supergirl first made her way to the big screen in 1984 the results were ... well they were bad. Like, really bad. One of the worst DC Comics movies to this day bad.

So the bar for the new Supergirl to be the best version of the character in a movie is relatively low. Still, the first trailer for the film, directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock as the Woman of Steel, looks pretty great. That is not a huge surprise, given how well Alcock worked as this version of the character in a short but effective cameo at the end of James Gunn’s Superman. (The characters share the same new DC movie universe.)

This Supergirl is based on one of the character’s best comics ever, a series titled Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by writer Tom King and artist Bilquis

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