During the revealing of the way forward for the DC Universe slate, co-CEO of DC Studios Peter Safran commented on the cancellation of Batgirl.
Safran revealed that not solely had he seen the movie, but additionally mentioned that regardless of it being made by a ton of gifted folks, the movie was “not releasable.” For that purpose, Safran mentioned, he believes that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav made “a bold and courageous decision” to cancel the movie as a result of he thinks it solely would have ended up hurting the folks concerned in the long term.
“I saw the movie,” mentioned Safran (through Deadline). “There are a lot of incredibly talented people in front of and behind the camera in that film, but that was not releasable. It happens sometimes…I think (Warner Discovery CEO David) Zaslav and the team made a bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC and those people involved.”
Filmed in 2021, the Batgirl movie was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, from a script written by Christina Hodson. After ending filming in 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery introduced that, regardless of the movie being in post-production, they might not be releasing it. The transfer got here as Warner Bros. Discovery seemed to reduce prices in all places within the firm, however drew a ton of ire from followers and the world of Hollywood as an entire.
Batgirl was set to star Grace (In the Heights) within the function of Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon. The hero was first seen within the 1967 Batman sequence with the late Yvonne Craig taking part in Barbara. Her first comedian ebook look was in Detective Comics #357 by author Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino.
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