‘He helps us to do that’: James Gunn reveals the surprising impact of recording Jason Momoa’s Lobo in DC’s New Supergirl film
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- James Gunn has plagued why Jason Momoa’s Lobo is vital Super girlplot
- His recording helped the creative team of the DC film to crack the story they want to tell
- Gunn also confirmed which actor will play the primary villain of the film
James Gunn has confirmed who will play the villain Super girl – and opened the importance of the Lobo of Jason Momoa in the upcoming DC Universe (DCU) film.
In a broad interview on interview Episode 15 of the official DC Studios podcastGunn revealed that the Belgian actor Matthias Schoenaerts Krem will portray.
For the non-dedication: Krem is the big bad one in ‘Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow’, an eight-part graphic novel series that the second DCU Film, released on June 26, 2026, is heavily inspired by. In fact, the film bore the title of the namesake of the comic book until recently, with a Gunn admission Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Was now known under his Much easier and cleaner title Super girl.
But back to Krem. Last October, Term claimed that Schoenaerts were cast as the frightening opponent of the film, but it is only now that Gunn has allowed The regime And Amsterdam Star is part of his cast. For more information about everyone else you will see in the first feature film outing of Kara Zor-El in more than 40 years (the first, 1984s Super girlis available for streaming MaximumTer fyi), view my dedicated Super girl guide.
That is not the only interesting information that Gunn discussed. Indeed the DC Studios Co-chief also gave more details about why Milly Alcock was cast as a super girlThe director Craig Gillespie Positive moisture to include certain scenes in the superhero film, and the first text that sent Jason Momoa to Gunn to convince him to have Momoa Lobo play.
It is a continuation of that last conversation that will arouse the interest of DC -accrued. Indeed, as co-host/comic book expert Coy Jandreau said during the latest episode of the podcast, the original design for Supergirl: Woman of TomorrowThe eight -part literary series was set up with the immortal, motor -ripe premium hunter. Tom King, who wrote the graphic novel, confirmed that this was the case in an interview with Comicbook.com in February 2023.
Since Lobo would appear in the comic book series of King and Bilquis Evely before he was finally cut out of the story, plus the fact that Momoa will play the last remaining Czarnic in Super girlLandreau asked if the upcoming DCU Chapter one movie would “part of the [comics’] original concept ideas “about how Lobo fits in the story that Super girl Will tell it.
“Wife of tomorrowIn the comics, there is a bunch of small stories, “Gunn said,” and we had to make a continuous, one three-act, more traditional story. So Lobo helps us to do that.
“It is not a fusion of him and Krem,” Gunn added about rumors that Lobo and Krem would somehow be combined in a single character. “He [Lobo] is a totally separate character. I love Lobo. I always thought that he was a great character to adjust and perhaps, somehow, the biggest comic book character that has never been to a movie. So I think it was cool to do [include him in Supergirl]Yes.”
Are you happy that Lobo is in Super girl? And what do you think of Schoenaerts playing his main villain? Let me know in the responses.
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