Debbie Harry and Giorgio Moroder originally wrote the 1980 classic “Call Me” for the soundtrack of 1980’s American Gigolo — and now it’s scoring the adventures of a Kryptonian party girl. With its Blondie-enhanced glimpses of a hungover, vocal-fry-employing Kara Zor-El (House of the Dragon‘s Millie Alcock) and a peeing Krypto, the new teaser trailer for June 26’s Supergirl confirms a very different vibe from this year’s Superman. “He sees the good in everyone,” Supergirl says in the teaser. “I see the truth.”
Supergirl, directed by Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya), is “a way more rock & roll film,” DC Studios’ co-CEO James Gunn told Rolling Stone earlier this year. “It’s a little bit rougher, in certain ways. She’s a tougher character. She’s not Superman at all.”
The movie’s direct inspiration was the 2022 DC Comics mini-series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, by writer Tom King and artist Bilquis Evely. The movie appears to follow that series’ general arc, in which Supergirl — while extra-terrestrially bar-hopping — teams up with the young alien Ruthye Marye Knoll (Eve Ridley) in a quest for revenge on the murderous Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts). The movie also adds another fan-fave DC character, alien bounty hunter Lobo (Jason Momoa), but the trailer barely offers a glimpse of him.
As in the comic books, Supergirl survived the initial explosion of Krypton when her home city shot off into space, and was deeply traumatized by the time she made it to Earth. “She’s got a lot of baggage and a lot of demons coming into this, which is very different than where Superman is in his life,” Gillespie said at a preview event for the trailer in New York on Sunday. ”It’s really surprising, the head space that she’s in and the journey she goes on.”
”So many times female superheroes are so perfect — she’s not that at all,” Gunn added at the event, emphasizing that that the film will be different than any other DCU project so far. She’s very imperfect — you know, like male superheroes have been allowed to be for a while — and I was excited about doing it.”
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