DC Studios film directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock as Kara Zor-El, drawing from the Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow comic miniseries.
Kara Zor-El's theatrical flight is giving way to streaming. Supergirl will make its global HBO Max debut on September 10, roughly eleven weeks after opening in North American theaters.
The awkward number is not September 10. It is $126 million. Supergirl now has an HBO Max date, giving DC Studios a chance to put Milly Alcock's Kara in front of a much larger home audience after the character's first solo DCU movie struggled badly at the box office.
Supergirl is neither the catastrophe suggested by its harshest reviews nor the confident second step the new DCU needed. Its strongest argument is Milly Alcock, who turns Kara into a rougher, more contradictory and more compelling survivor than the movie around her. Whenever the story stays with Kara and Ruthye, its ideas about grief, vengeance and inherited violence give it a personality of its own. Whenever it slips back into cluttered space-blockbuster mode, that identity fades. On HBO Max, the flaws remain obvious, but this version of Kara absolutely deserves another flight.
