Adria Arjona has landed the mystery role in James Gunn’s Man of Tomorrow after several rounds of screen tests, filling the last major casting slot in DC Studios’ Superman sequel. The casting was reported Monday, April 14, 2026, at 10:34 a.m. ET.
The role had previously been reported as the comic anti-heroine Maxima, though that has not been confirmed. Earlier in April, Eva De Dominici, Sydney Chandler and Grace Van Patten were among the finalists who screen tested in Atlanta before Arjona emerged as Gunn’s choice.
That makes Arjona the newest addition to a sequel that already brings back David Corenswet as Superman, Nicholas Hoult as Lex Luthor and Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane. The film also includes returning players Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen, Sara Sampaio as Eve Teschmacher, Isabela Merced as Hawkgirl, Nathan Fillion as Guy Gardner and Edi Gathegi as Mister Terrific, with Aaron Pierre reprising Green Lantern John Stewart.
Gunn wrote Man of Tomorrow for a July 9, 2027 release date, and the project is now the next DC Studios feature set to go into production. The new film follows Superman, which grossed $618.7 million globally last year and established the lineup that will carry into the sequel.
The uncertainty around Arjona’s character is the small catch in an otherwise orderly rollout. A report tied the part to Maxima, the character introduced in 1989 by writer Roger Stern and artist George Pérez in Action Comics No. 645, but DC Studios has not said whether that attribution is correct. Arjona, meanwhile, comes into the film off Andor season two and Splitsville, with high-profile projects still in post-production including Amazon MGM’s remake of The Thomas Crown Affair and Onslaught.
For Gunn, the casting closes one gap and leaves one question open: whether Arjona is playing Maxima or someone else entirely. The answer will matter less to the marketing than to what kind of threat or ally she becomes when Superman and Lex Luthor are forced to team up against Brainiac.
