While discussing Supergirl‘s flop with my Hollywood insiders, I’ve been informed that Adria Arjona is playing Wonder Woman in James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow, the sequel to his Superman movie set for release in summer 2027.
First, a quick note on Supergirl, with more coming later: I’m told they knew the film was going to be a complete disaster. The most recent estimates have dropped to a $38M weekend, and the foreign box office is being described as horribly low by Deadline.
Adria Arjona Is Playing Wonder Woman, Not Maxima
Back to Adria Arjona.
When her casting news first surfaced, the trades were not all on the same page. Some reports said she was playing Maxima. Other outlets said they could not confirm that.
I’m told there is a reason for the confusion: Gunn wrote the character into the Man of Tomorrow script as a placeholder, where the role could have gone either way, Maxima or Wonder Woman.
From what I am told, Adria Arjona is playing Wonder Woman in the current script of James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow, not Maxima.
Note: These are the same insiders who told us first about Daredevil: Born Again getting retooled, which the trades confirmed exactly, months later.
The Problem Is The Script
However, from what I am hearing, Man of Tomorrow has a familiar problem, the same one now hanging over Supergirl: the script.
Since Gunn initially wrote the character as a placeholder, my insiders say Wonder Woman is not being treated like Wonder Woman.
“They have no take on Wonder Woman, even though she’s in Man of Tomorrow. She’s so generalized, that she is interchangeable with Maxima,” I’m told.
Man of Tomorrow is still more than a year away, so with Gunn getting the greenlight to use Wonder Woman, the script can obviously still be improved and changed.
At this point, it better be.
After the reaction to Supergirl, where the script is being overwhelmingly blamed, DC cannot afford another movie where the character work feels generic and interchangeable.
Gunn publicly said the scripts have to be perfect first. From what I have been told, that’s all out the window.
Supergirl New York Premiere 06-22-26
Gunn’s DCU Sounds More Like Feige’s Marvel
I’m also told Gunn has been running DC like Feige’s Marvel, with a basic structure, a writers room to fill in the comedy and lazy manipulative emotional beats, pre-vized action scenes, and scripts being worked on as they go.
That sounds less like the “scripts first” promise and more like the same assembly-line approach fans have already been rejecting.
I’m also told Man of Tomorrow will have more cameos and a lot of fan service “because this may be it” for Gunn and his DCU.
This also explains why the Supergirl writer, Ana Nogueira, recently said the Wonder Woman movie is “so early,” while following the release of Superman last year, the trades reported that the Wonder Woman film was being fast-tracked.
It’s because Gunn might not get a chance to do it. We’ve previously been told that Gunn is out with the sale of WBD to Paramount.
