EXCLUSIVE: We can tell you that Rust and Bone actor Matthias Schoenaerts has landed the villain role in DC‘s Supergirl.

Supergirl is based on Tom King’s 2022 comic book series Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow, which Bilquis Evely illustrated. Ana Nogueira adapted the comic book for the big screen. In that comic, the bad guy is Krem of the Yellow Hill, who kills a young alien girl’s father. She draws Supergirl into the conflict.

We told you first that Craig Gillespie is directing the next chapter in the “Gods and Monsters” Phase 1 of James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DC Extended Universe. The film will lens in January in the UK and hit theaters on June 26, 2026.

House of the Dragon‘s Milly Alcock won the Supergirl title role after an extensive search. She’s also appearing in another DC project before making her big-screen debut as the Angel of the Sky.

Gunn and Safran are producing. DC EVP Chantal Nong is executive producing.

Belgium native Schoenaerts won a Cesar for Most Promising Actor for Rust and Bone. Schoenaerts recently starred in the Max and HBO series The Regime opposite Kate Winslet. His feature credits include David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, Red Sparrow opposite Jennifer Lawrence, Tom Hopper’s The Danish Girl, Luca Guadagnino’s A Bigger Splash and Netflix’s Charlize Theron movie The Old Guard.

Schoenaerts is repped by CAA, Agence Adequat and Ken Lambrechts Artist Management.