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James Gunn<\/a><\/strong> has picked who might be the best casting choice when he\u2019s ever done.<\/p>\n Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s DCU<\/a> officially kicked off in December 2024 with the animated Creature Commandos television show. That was followed by Gunn\u2019s Superman movie, while Peacemaker Season 2 is now airing on HBO Max, with new episodes dropping on Thursdays. Following that, Lanterns, Clayface, and Supergirl<\/a> will all arrive next year, while Man of Tomorrow will be released in 2027.<\/p>\n Prior to helming the DCU, Gunn made 2021\u2019s The Suicide Squad and helmed the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise for Marvel. His filmography also includes 2006\u2019s Slither and 2010\u2019s Super, while he\u2019s worked on the scripts for movies such as 1996\u2019s Tromeo and Juliet, 2002\u2019s Scooby-Doo, 2016\u2019s The Belko Experiment, and more.<\/p>\n Appearing on the Howard Stern Show<\/a>, via DC Film News on Twitter<\/a>, Gunn said that Milly Alcock<\/a> as Supergirl \u201cmight be the best bit of casting\u201d he\u2019s ever done in his \u201centire life.\u201d He added, \u201cI think she\u2019s absolutely stunning in the movie.\u201d<\/p>\n Alcock\u2019s Kara Zor-El briefly appeared at the end of Superman, while the Craig Gillespie-directed Supergirl movie is currently scheduled to arrive on June 26, 2026. The cast of the movie also includes Matthias Schoenaerts as Krem of the Yellow Hills, Eve Ridley as Ruthye Marye Knoll, David Krumholtz as Zor-El, Emily Beecham as Alura In-Ze, and Jason Momoa as Lobo.<\/p>\n The film is based on Tom King and Bilquis Evelyn\u2019s Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow DC Comics miniseries. The script comes from Ana Nogueira, while Gunn and Safran serve as producers.<\/p>\n Outside of the DCU, Alcock played a young Rhaenyra Targaryen in HBO\u2019s House of the Dragon, while she also recently starred as Simone DeWitt on Netflix\u2019s Sirens.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n The post James Gunn Reveals DCU Actor Is \u2018The Best Casting Choice\u2019 He\u2019s Ever Made<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Gunn has picked who might be the best casting choice when he\u2019s ever done. Gunn and Peter Safran\u2019s DCU officially kicked off in December 2024 with the animated Creature Commandos television show. That was followed by Gunn\u2019s Superman movie, while Peacemaker Season 2 is now airing on HBO Max, with new episodes dropping on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2012248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[206284,41332,184939,47897,72985,352636,336538],"class_list":["post-2012247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-dcu","tag-james-gunn","tag-milly-alcock","tag-peter-safran","tag-supergirl","tag-supergirl-movie","tag-superman-movie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/James-Gunn-Reveals-DCU-Actor-Is-\u2018The-Best-Casting-Choice.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2012247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2012247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2012247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2012247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2012247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What did James Gunn say about his best casting choice?<\/h2>\n