Helen Slater is Supergirl (1984). I will offer no explanation. But Sasha Calle in The Flash (2023) caught me off guard — she was one of two great things in that movie, the other being Michael Keaton as THE Batman. So when DC cast Milly Alcock, I knew this could go either way.
Linda Danvers from Peter David’s run carried real weight. Laurel Gand made it rock with the Legion matter. Alcock’s got distance to cover. Same as David Corenswet had with Superman (2025) in the shadow of Christopher Reeve.
Then the trailer dropped.
Something shifted.
The first thirty seconds hit different. It’s Catcher in the Rye restlessness with a soupçon of the maudlin Anais Nin wallowed in — but essentially that refusal to be what everyone expects. Zatoichi quiet with Kara’s partying instead of dice playing in his case, but unknowingly dangerous. And Pixar’s Up (2009) depth. Hopefully. The build feels deliberate and slow until it isn’t, and then, as always, something breaks.
Is that good?
No idea.
What I know: I want to sit in a theater on June 26 and watch this. The trailer sold.
ALSO LOBO!!!!!!
