Warner Bros.’ enlargement of the Bat-wing of its myriad plans for the DC movieverse simply took a serious leap ahead: a brand new cinematic Barbara Gordon has been discovered, and it’s In the Height’s Leslie Grace.

Deadline studies that Grace—one in all a number of names to emerge on a purported last record of choices earlier this week, alongside Isabella Merced, Zoey Deutch and Haley Lu Richardson—will play Barbara Gordon within the standalone Batgirl film, set to debut completely on HBO Max. Bad Boys’ Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah will direct the movie, primarily based on a script from Birds of Prey’s Christina Hodson, who was introduced into the venture after disgraced director Joss Whedon bowed out, citing that he was unable to create a narrative for one in all the preferred feminine heroes in DC Comics’ secure of characters.

Batgirl is simply one of many many, many Bat-adjacent motion pictures DC has within the works at Warner Bros. proper now. Of course, Matt Reeves’ The Batman will herald Robert Pattinson’s new tackle the Dark Knight, however Andy Muschietti’s Flash standalone may also convey again each Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton’s variations of the enduring protector of Gotham. Chris McKay, who lately directed The Tomorrow War at Amazon, has lengthy been hooked up to a Nightwing film that he’s nonetheless speaking about truly doing. And that’s to not rule out HBO Max choices like the upcoming season of Titans—which may also function Savannah Welch as Barbara Gordon, extra particularly in her position as Oracle fairly than Batgirl—and the deliberate Gotham PD spinoff set on this planet of Reeves’ Batman movie.

We at present have no concept which continuity, if any, this new model of the character shall be that includes in however we’ll convey you extra on Batgirl as and once we study it.

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