Craig Gillespie Booked His Next Movie Before Supergirl Even Opened: An AI Thriller With Glen Powell

The same week his Supergirl landed in theaters to a critical shrug, Craig Gillespie already has his next picture picked out. Deadline reported June 23 that Gillespie is in talks to direct Homewreckers, a sci-fi thriller at Legendary, with Glen Powell starring and producing. Powell has been attached since December 2024. Gillespie is the new piece, and he locked it in before a single Supergirl review hit.

That sequencing is the actual news here. A director booking his follow-up before his big tentpole opens is not a man hedging. It is a man whose phone keeps ringing no matter what the DCU does at the box office.

What Homewreckers is, as far as anyone will say

The official logline is sealed. What is known: the film comes from an unpublished novella by Neil Paik, who is also writing the screenplay. The premise floating around the trades has Beth and Henry (Powell), a married couple coming apart at the seams, with Henry convinced his wife is stepping out. Beth then gets a strange offer, a chance to rekindle things with a younger, AI-generated version of her own husband. Deadline and others have slapped an "erotic" label on it.

Hold that genre tag loosely. "Erotic sci-fi thriller" is the kind of phrase that gets a script noticed in a bidding war and means very little until there is footage. An AI doppelganger marriage story could be a sleek De Palma riff or a glossy mess. The novella is unpublished, so nobody outside the room has read the thing.

The bidding war it came out of

Legendary did not get this on the cheap. When the package went out in December 2024 it set off a real fight, and Legendary beat a stack of rivals for the rights:

• Lionsgate
• New Regency
• Sony
• Warner Bros.

Where it lands in theaters is still open. It is unclear whether Homewreckers falls under Legendary's three-year theatrical deal with Paramount, signed in September 2025. No release date has been set. Given Gillespie is only now in talks and the script is still being written, 2027 is the earliest realistic window.

Why Gillespie is a sane pick for this

Gillespie does not make the same movie twice. The resume runs from I, Tonya and Dumb Money to Cruella, Lars and the Real Girl, and Fright Night, with TV detours through Pam & Tommy and Your Friends & Neighbors. A twisty two-hander about jealousy, marriage, and a synthetic spouse is squarely the tonal tightrope he likes to walk. Whether Supergirl works for you or not, the range is real, and range is exactly what a slippery premise like this needs.

The Supergirl asterisk

Supergirl opened June 26 to mixed notices, hovering in the high 50s to low 60s on Rotten Tomatoes and around 49 on Metacritic depending on when you checked. The one thing critics agreed on was Milly Alcock, who got near-universal praise while the script and the generic action took the hits. Alcock is already set to return as Kara in 2027's Man of Tomorrow, so the DCU is not blinking either.

Powell, meanwhile, is not exactly waiting by the phone. He voiced Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, headlines J.J. Abrams' The Great Beyond later this year, and leads Judd Apatow's The Comeback King for Universal on February 5, 2027. Homewreckers slots in behind all of that.

So this is two busy people adding one more to the pile, on a premise nobody can fully describe yet, from a director who books work faster than his last movie can be graded. Worth watching. Not worth betting on until the logline comes out of the vault.