One doesn’t merely shelve a film with a $220 million budget–even when the star is garnering the mistaken sort of publicity. Despite rumors, The Flash was by no means going to get the Batgirl remedy, in accordance with producer (and sister to director Andy Muchietti), Barbara Muchietti, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
In August 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery was nonetheless a newly-merged group, and executives have been making loads of selections about present and future content material on the Max platform, then nonetheless referred to as HBO Max. Two occasions occurred in very shut proximity; the studio abruptly canned Batgirl though it had completed filming and featured fan-favorite casting together with Brendan Frasier and Michael Keaton. At the identical time, Ezra Miller’s ongoing authorized troubles got here to a head. Chatter about Miller’s superhero movie being shelved started to flow into whilst Miller entered remedy.
When requested instantly if there was “legitimate fear of the movie being canceled,” Muchietti stated “Not at all. No. That was never real.”
Miller was arrested a number of instances in Hawaii in April 2022, together with accusations of grooming a minor (which the person, now an grownup, says are false). They additionally pleaded responsible to illegal trespass in Vermont, and appeared to choke a girl at a bar in Iceland in a video that made the rounds on-line. The Muchietti siblings and DC Studios bosses have voiced help for Miller’s restoration within the months since.
The Flash stars Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Ben Affleck, and Michael Shannon, and hits theaters on June 16.
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