María Gabriela de Faría to play the Engineer in SUPERMAN: LEGACY

With each the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in the rearview mirror, productions can lastly resume on the numerous highly-anticipated reminiscent of Superman: Legacy. According to filmmaker James Gunn, even with the strikes the movie continues to be set to make its July 11, 2025 launch date. After a slew of casting bulletins earlier in the yr, a Deadline unique revealed that Venezuelan actress María Gabriela de Faría has been forged in the function of Angela Spica higher generally known as the Engineer from The Authority.

Created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, the character made her debut in The Authority vol.1 #1 in 1999. Spica is a scientist who had changed her blood with 9 pints of nanotechnology and will create stable objects with it amongst different issues.

As beforehand revealed by Gunn, a function movie primarily based on the edgy WildStorm characters is in the works.

This is one among my actual ardour initiatives. I’ve been working actually laborious on it with the writers and we’re beginning to put collectively the whole story. This is a giant film. I don’t know what number of of you might be acquainted with the Authority. They’re WildStorm characters. WildStorm was a comics imprint that was purchased by DC that I actually love. We’re transferring a variety of these WildStorm characters into the DCU.

The Authority’s a really totally different form of superhero story. They are principally good-intentioned, however they assume that the world is totally damaged and the solely means to repair it’s to take issues into their very own arms, whether or not which means killing individuals, destroying heads of state, altering governments—principally, no matter they need to do to make the world higher. We’ll see how that journey goes for them.

There are morally grey characters (in our DCU), of which these are.

The remainder of the forged embody David Corenswet as Clark Kent/Superman, Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner/Green Lantern, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific, and Anthony Carrigan as Rex Mason/Metamorpho.