Look Ahead: Supergirl

Coming to theaters this Friday, we get the second film from the Gunn DCU, Supergirl starring Milly Alcock as the cousin of David Corensweat’s Superman. To summarize the synopsis, Supergirl’s dog, Krypto, is poisoned by bandits and Supergirl must track them down to get her revenge and more importantly, to find the antidote to save Krypto.

I am very excited for this movie, despite the lack of buzz from Hollywood and anywhere else about this movie. I was a fan of the Superman movie, especially Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor character. I also was a big fan of what James Gunn did with the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise and his Peacekeeper show with John Cena. With that being said, people are starting to get tired of the Gunn style of films. The soundtracks to his films are fantastic and the craziness of his films fits perfectly to the comic book genre, but similar to Taika Waititi’s fall off, people seem to want something new from Gunn, and I was say I fall into that category as well.

Though it is James Gunn’s DCU, the film is directed by Craig Gillespie, who was the director of the show Your Friends and Neighbors and has also done a number of films. His style of filmmaking is unique and will be an interesting experiment to see how other filmmakers fit into Gunn’s DCU.

Currently, Supergirl is tracking for a $39-$51 million domestic opening weekend. With a reported budget of $175 million, the film will need to break at least $300 million to break even. With the projected opening week, that number seems almost impossible. What DC and Gunn have working in their favor is the worldwide love of superheroes and hopefully that love will be enough to get them out of the hole. Selfishly, I want this movie to succeed. While I’m not 100% in on Supergirl, I am 100% in on Milly Alcock as an actress as well as Gunn leading the DCU and I do not want to see less commitment to the DCU just when it needs all the help it can get.

Next week I’ll be reviewing both Disclosure Day and Supergirl. Hopefully they will be glowingly positive reviews about the films and the state of the film industry.

A Late Bloomer can only dream.

Until Next time.