House Of The Dragon’s Milly Alcock is the new Supergirl

Apologies to Sasha Calle, who was totally fine in The Flash, but there’s a new Supergirl in town: Milly Alcock, who played the young Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO’s House Of The Dragon has won the high-profile superhero role in James Gunn and Peter Safran’s rebooted DC movie universe. This comes from Deadline, which says Alcock’s Supergirl—Kara Zor-El to her friends—might not appear in Superman: Legacy (which Gunn himself is directing), but she will apparently appear in something before getting her own solo film (which will be an adaptation of Tom King and Bilquis Evely’s Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow).

Deadline also says that Alcock beat a couple of other notable stars for the role, specifically Emilia Jones from CODA and Meg Donnelly from Disney Channel’s Zombies franchise (she also played Supergirl in a few animated DC movies). But no, it’ll be Milly Alcock stepping into the red boots and either a skirt or pants (we don’t know yet) as Supergirl, giving her another nice big genre role after her time on the Game Of Thrones prequel came to a sudden end with its big mid-season time jump. She was good on House Of The Dragon, so hopefully Gunn’s new DC universe won’t get a big 10-year time jump at some point.

As for this version of Supergirl, she’ll apparently be more of a hardened badass than the more uplifting and optimistic version of the character that Melissa Benoist played on The CW’s Supergirl. But, seeing as how we haven’t seen anything from the rest of Gunn’s universe yet—beyond the complicated supporting cast and not-complicated main cast of Superman: Legacy—it’s impossible to say how much of a difference this new-ish take on Supergirl will make. Maybe everyone will be more of a hardened badass than usual? That was kind of the old DC movie universe’s gimmick, but it’s not like they’re going to swing in the same direction as Marvel and make everything kind of self-aware and quippy. Right?