DC Studios has its Supergirl.

Milly Alcock, who performed the younger Rhaenyra Targaryen within the first season of HBO’s “Home of the Dragon,” will play the Girl of Metal within the new DC Universe spearheaded by James Gunn and Peter Safran. She is going to headline the upcoming characteristic movie “Supergirl: Girl of Tomorrow,” primarily based on the DC comics run of the identical identify by Tom King and Bilquis Evely.

That mission, nevertheless, doesn’t but have a director, and Ana Nogueira (“The Vampire Diaries”) was simply employed to write down the screenplay in November. Gunn, who confirmed Alcock’s casting on Instagram, has not acknowledged when Alcock will make her superhero debut. However the truth that the information that Alcock landed the function broke months earlier than Gunn will start taking pictures “Superman: Legacy” means that Supergirl could first present up alongside her Kryptonian cousin earlier than setting off on her personal story.

The Australian-born Alcock began her appearing profession as a young person on Aussie TV, earlier than she was forged in her breakout function on HBO’s “Recreation of Thrones” prequel sequence. Alcock gained huge approval for her efficiency because the striving Targaryen princess within the first 5 episodes of the present, earlier than she ceded the function to Emma D’Arcy after the present jumped ahead in time 10 years.

Alcock shall be in good firm, as Supergirl — aka Kara Zor-El — has been performed a number of occasions in simply the previous few years, together with by Melissa Benoist on the CBS and CW sequence “Supergirl” (which ran for six seasons), and by Sasha Calle within the 2023 characteristic movie “The Flash,” one of many closing movies within the earlier iteration of the DC cinematic universe. Gunn has made clear, nevertheless, that he desires a recent begin with the brand new DCU.

Within the 2022 comedian e-book run of “Girl of Tomorrow,” reasonably than escape the planet of Krypton as an toddler earlier than it explodes (like her cousin Kal-El), Kara grows up witnessing her dwelling planet’s destruction till she’s 14, when she arrives on Earth. That makes the character “way more hardcore,” Gunn defined in 2023 when presenting the primary 10 titles within the new DCU slate. “She’s not precisely the Supergirl we’re used to seeing.”