Supergirl Reportedly Faced Creative Differences Between DC Studios and Craig Gillespie

Creative differences reportedly led James Gunn and Peter Safran's DC Studios to trial competing Supergirl cuts – 1 from manager Craig Gillespie and 1 from the workplace – conscionable months earlier its release.

Behind-the-scenes details from the latest DCU movie suggest originative differences had the unit battling to take a absorption for Milly Alcock's standalone superhero debut, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Updates connected the flick's improvement travel a week of antagonistic reactions from fans hoping Supergirl would person taken formation earlier it bombed during its opening play astatine the container office.

The tract says "numerous sources" reported originative differences betwixt Gunn and Gillespie, specifically, with the movie pulling trial scores that struggled to interruption 70 retired of a imaginable 100 points. While immoderate said DC Studios and the manager had a mean magnitude of friction during Supergirl, different said a polite mode to picture the dissonance would beryllium to accidental they were "not creatively aligned."

DC Studios had allegedly known Supergirl would look issues arsenic aboriginal arsenic autumn of 2025, conscionable a fewer months aft filming finished that May. Gunn and Safran's DC movie helping jumped successful aft a so-so screening aired successful December 2025, with the workplace past creating its ain chopped of the movie with the assistance of Mortal Kombat 2 and Moon Knight writer Jeremy Slater.

At slightest 4 trial screenings aired passim December 2025, February 2026, and March 2026. Although immoderate wintertime screenings returned trial scores successful the debased 70s, DC Studios called for 2 cuts to beryllium made: 1 from Gillespie and 1 from the studio. The nonstop differences betwixt the 2 are unclear, but arsenic antecedently rumored, the director's is said to person been astir 11 minutes longer and featured a greater accent connected Matthias Schoenaerts' antagonist, Krem.

It was during the play that saw the 2 screenings trial against 1 different that scores dropped. DC Studios' won retired – but lone by 2 points – and, ultimately, became the mentation of the movie it chose to nonstop to theaters successful precocious June. One Hollywood Reporter root said that, aft this point, if Gillespie had beardown opinions connected the movie, helium would person to advocator for immoderate changes.

"It happens much than you think, but it’s not normal," 1 anonymous filmmaker, who was not progressive with Supergirl, said of the determination to trial 2 competing cuts. "If a workplace is going to enactment wealth into the trial process, it means they consciousness powerfully astir definite things."

Another constituent that remained important for DC Studios and Gillespie to tackle during the post-production process progressive thing that has proven to beryllium a blistery taxable since Supergirl premiered – its music. Fans person poked amusive astatine the film's soundtrack successful the days since its launch, with its usage of a screen of Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle" during a late-movie infinitesimal being particularly controversial.

Gillespie antecedently stated that Gunn is the 1 who made the telephone to see the song, and The Hollywood Reporter's sources agree. They added that a February screening included Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" during the infinitesimal instead. Gunn is said to person chosen this song, arsenic well, earlier swapping it retired for The Middle.

Supergirl enactment Alcock halfway signifier erstwhile it premiered June 26. Despite lone 1 week successful theaters and presumably astatine slightest a fewer much to go, things aren't looking excessively blistery for the DCU's caller hero. A study from earlier this week suggested Warner Bros. and DC Studios could basal to suffer much than $100 cardinal from its clip successful theaters.

IGN gave Supergirl a 6/10 review. We said, "Supergirl borrows from the best, but Milly Alcock’s large instrumentality connected Kara Zor-El gets mislaid successful the spare parts from different movies utilized to assemble her story."

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