Jason Momoa has been cast to star alongside Milly Alcock in the forthcoming superhero movie Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
Alcock, 24, who landed the titular role of Superman’s cousin Kara Zor-El/Supergirl following a long search, will lead the 2026 adaptation of Tom King’s 2022 comic book series.
Matthias Schoenaerts has been cast as the villain Krem of the Yellow Hill, while Eve Ridley was more recently announced as Ruthye Marye Knoll.
Craig Gillespie is attached to direct the picture, which will be produced by DC Studios.
In an exciting new update for the film, Momoa, 45, has officially been cast to play the interstellar mercenary and bounty hunter Lobo.
This marks the Hawaiian star’s first DC role since the finale of his Aquaman series, 2023’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Momoa, who has previously been vocal about his interest in playing Lobo, shared the news in an Instagram post on December 30.
Alongside a screenshot of his quotes from a old interview, which read: “So Lobo was… I collect comics, and I don’t do so much anymore, but he was always my favorite, and I always wanted to play Lobo, because I’m like, ‘Hello? It’s the perfect role. If they call and ask me to play him, it’s a f*** yeah.”
Momoa now confirms: “They called.”
Created by Roger Slifer and Keith Giffen, Lobo first appeared in the February 1983 comic Omega Men #3.
Hailing from Czarnia, Lobo is known as an antihero with a violent personality and superhero strength. He’s often characterized as a ruthless bounty hunter who has a penchant for chaos and destruction.
When the film was first unveiled as part of CEO James Gunn’s vision for a new, “unified” DC Universe, he revealed the movie would feature “a very different type of Supergirl.”
“In our series we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth and raised by loving parents from the time he was an infant, versus Supergirl who was raised on a rock, a chip off Krypton, and watched everyone around her die and be killed in terrible ways for the first 14 years of her life, and then came to Earth when she was a young girl,” he teased.
“She’s much more hardcore; she’s not exactly the Supergirl we’re used to seeing.”
Additional plot details about Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow remain under wraps, though production is reportedly scheduled to begin on January 13.
