Mattias Schoenaerts to Potentially Harm Dog as Supergirl Movie’s Villain

Every superhero indispensable person a supervillain to look disconnected with—those are the rules!—and it sounds similar Supergirl, as played by Milly Alcock (House of the Dragon) successful the James Gunn-produced, Craig Gillespie-directed Supergirl movie coming summertime 2026, has recovered her foe. And we cognize who’ll beryllium playing him: Belgian histrion Mattias Schoenaerts, whose galore credits see 2020’s The Old Guard.

This quality comes from Deadline; the trade—pointing to the information that fans already cognize Supergirl volition gully from the 2022 Tom King-Bilquis Evely comic bid Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow—adds the apt proposition that Schoenaerts volition beryllium playing the aforesaid villain from that comic: Krem of the Yellow Hills, whose random sidesplitting of an alien girl’s begetter is what draws Supergirl into his orbit. That, and arsenic the Hollywood Reporter further references, helium shoots arrows astatine Supergirl and Krypto, injuring “everyone’s favourite superpet.”

As each devoted favored owners tin understand, idiosyncratic daring to harm a beloved carnal companion automatically triggers what’s known arsenic the John Wick reflex, truthful there’s nary amended impetus for bringing Kara Zor-El into the fight. (And arsenic to Krypto’s fate, with noted canine person Gunn involved, it seems wholly imaginable the pooch makes a afloat recovery—though let’s not hide not each adorable carnal made it retired of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 unscathed.)

Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is being scripted by Ana Nogueira (The Vampire Diaries, the upcoming live-action Teen Titans movie), with Gillespie (I, Tonya; Cruella) handling directing duties. It volition beryllium the 2nd diagnostic successful the caller Gunn and Peter Safran-led DC Studios era, pursuing Gunn’s Superman, which arrives July 11, 2025. Supergirl, meanwhile, volition deed theaters June 26, 2026.

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