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Seems like this movie was DOA and they tried to salvage trash and made it mid

Yesterday, THR posted a breakdown of the post-production process on Supergirl. When combining this report with previous ones, there were five different versions of Supergirl screened after production ended:

1. October 2025: The internal DC Studios/WB screening. Not much is known about this cut. More than likely, this was an early assembly just used to gauge progress.
2. December 2025: Craig Gillespie's first director's cut. This version tested middling in the 60s and reportedly saw music as a contention point. Following this screening, DC Studios took over the post-production process.
3. February 2026: The "Fun" Cut as I'll call it due to its reported use of "Girls Just Want To Have Fun" in the climax. This version saw reshoots written by Jeremy Slater, continued involvement from Ana Nogueira, and scored in the low 70s, a considerable improvement.
4. March 2026: After that cut, two cuts were then tested in March. One submitted by Gillespie, and one submitted by the studio. The studio cut is the final, theatrical version we ended up receiving. Gillespie's cut was reportedly similar but had 11 extra minutes that focused more on Krem, as well as reportedly having song choices audiences preferred to the studio cut. Both versions tested lower than the Fun Cut, yet the studio still put forward their cut (Which tested only two points higher than Gillespie's) as the final version.
   1. Note: It's possible that the song choices from Gillespie's cut were then pasted into the studio cut to meld them together, though also potentially not. It's unclear.

While some are trying to debate the impact of that extra 11 minutes or the potentially different songs in Gillespie's second cut, there's something more baffling: The existence of the Fun Cut itself which tested higher than the two that followed it. Logic would have it that if test screenings declined, you would revert to the earlier, better-received version, yes? So why didn't they?

I've been thinking about this all day. The reasons can only be speculation, and we'll likely never know the exact reason. But I was able to come up with a few possible reasons:

1. Runtime and Sunk Costs. If the Pre-March cuts were all over 2 hours, and thus significantly longer than the final studio cut, but still only tested slightly higher than the final cut, they may have decided to go for more screenings at the cost of a slightly worse cut knowing that the movie wasn't good enough even in the longer form to actually make up for less screenings. Especially with all the box office projections continuing to trend down over the first half of the year.
2. Directorial Approval. A second scenario I could theorize is that Gillespie would've been entirely against The Fun Cut due to having no influence on it (Even Nogueira was still allowed to have a say while Gillespie wasn't), and demanded a second chance to make his own cut. The the final studio cut was edited from his second chance as an attempt to compromise with the director and still give him some control. E.g., Gillespie could accept the second studio cut but wouldn't have accepted the Fun Cut. In this scenario Gunn's want to make the director still feel like he had some control could've been a detriment.
3. Budget, Music, and VFX. By the March cuts, a lot of money would have been spent on the music (By then we were on composer 3 already I believe) and VFX to be presentable even to test audiences. With only 3 months left, it's possible they didn't have the time or budget to revert to an earlier cut and re-do VFX and rescore it, and thus had to simply charge on.

Regardless of speculation, this supposedly better cut of Supergirl remains an enigma. And in that vein, I really beg that when the movie comes to home media, it includes all four versions (Even if incomplete states VFX and score-wise). The last thing the DCU needs is another alternate cut controversy hanging over it, DC's had enough of that. Home media is the place to toss alternate versions as bonuses anyways, why not toss out all tested versions and then see how people respond. That way you can learn, more accurately, what people do and don't like about the film and how it came together, on a larger scale than a test screening does. Even if the other cuts are all worse and those test audiences were nuts, I'd still say it's worth it just to prevent more alternate cut campaigns or whatnot. And, speaking personally, I enjoy watching rough versions of films anyways, even when early edits suck I like seeing films evolve in editing. It's a fascinating thing, and I don't see how it would hurt anything.

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I did not include Aaron Pierre's John Stewart cause we have yet to see him in his GL outfit. Along with not including Wonder Woman because really I don't think the aborted future vision in Creature Commandos really counts cause we don't know if she's active at this point.

I agree with many people critical of Gunn's DCU that he focuses on characters the public isn't totally familiar with. Although there's Superman, Batman (who hasn't been cast yet as far as we know), Green Lantern (Hal and John, more of the general population know John Stewart) and to an extent Hawkgirl cause of the DCAU. Although that's not Shayera Hol. But then there's everyone else on this image. Some know Guy from the Brave and the Bold show but that's about it.

And the shows announced aside from Lanterns and American Villain (Jimmy Olson's show) are about characters the wider public don't know much of. Paradise Lost is Wonder Woman adjacent and I have a theory why it's a thing but I'll explain in a minute. Lanterns was pitched as a show and the reason it is, one it's Damon Lindelof and Chris Mundy who do TV and also it's cheaper and lower risk than a movie. Which after the 2011 movie failed is a good idea.

It's made people wonder if Supergirl should have been a show on HBO maybe even animated to get the look of the WOT book. Milly Alcock is well known for being on an HBO show. So it could have worked. Ironically Mister Miracle, another Tom King Book is getting an animated series and not a film.

I think the reason paradise lost exists is 1. They may be planning to shoot this and Wonder Woman back to back so maybe they can reuse the set for Paradise Island scenes and 2. Worldbuidling

And that implies to Jimmy Olson, Mister Miracle, Booster Gold, Lanterns and Mr. Terrific or what they call it, I heard it rumoed to be an adaptation of Tom King's Strange Adventures. Still could be so it be Micheal Holt and Adam Strange as Co-Protagonists.

What's interesting is only two of these are spin offs of Superman. And Mr. Terrific is something people expected after Superman given how well people responded to him pretty well. It's likely has been worked on for a year now since that movie came out.

I'll be reading that and Mr. Miracle. Like i did WOT.

Jimmy Olson is gonna show the DCU from his POV and I hear in the comics those plots get crazy. Like a Hal subplot in Malcolm in the Middle. Hence why Grodd is there along with other super powered characters. Some think other villains might appear and even the Flash could debut. Gorilla Grodd and Darkseid first appeared in a Jimmy Olson comic.

And with Mister Miracle were introducing the New Gods. And Darkseid will appear. And unlike the Snyderverse and the New 52 movies, the focus won't be a conflict with the Justice League on Earth but with his adopted son and the other new gods.

I think it's smart to have these shows be, shows. Instead of movies. Supergirl is NOT doing so hot and I think that's cause outside of comic fans, she isn't a well known character. So I think after this they're gonna focus on getting Batman and Wonder Woman on the big screen for this universe.

Clayface isn't included cause he's a villain and we see he's quite villanous in Creature Commandos years after his transformation.

Something this is trying to do that the MCU and the DCEU didn't do is focus on characters that aren't the Justice League or Avengers which both of those franchises focused on building those teams and afterwards started to expand. Marvel...didn't really do that until Phase 4. Where we got the Disney Plus shows and some movies like Shang Chi and the Eternals.

That's just my two cents.

I think using TV shows for lesser knowns is a good idea. Comics are built better for shows in a lot of cases and these won't cost as much a Supergirl or Superman.