The Batgirl Movie Is Dead

You’re by no means going to see that new Batgirl film. According to reviews, Warner Bros. has determined to cancel the practically completed undertaking and never launch it both in theaters or on HBO Max, which was the unique plan.

There are a number of reviews as to the reasoning behind this and io9 has reached out to Warner Bros. for remark. We’ll replace this piece if and once we hear again. For now although, the New York Post, which broke the information, says check screenings of the movie have been so unhealthy that the studio felt releasing it might injury the DC model. The Wrap provides that the movie was made as a streaming film, not a giant theatrical launch, and Warner Bros.’ new administration desires DC titles to be as huge as potential. Which Batgirl was not.

Directed by Bad Boys for Life staff Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, Batgirl stars Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon, who then turns into the titular character. Michael Keaton was set to reprise his position as Batman within the movie too. According to the Wrap, Warner Bros. has nothing towards any of these individuals and hopes to work with them quickly—it’s simply that the movie was made underneath a special regime, and it doesn’t mesh with the present boss’ plans.

This is wild although. According to these reviews, Batgirl price at minimal $70 million and possibly nearer to $100 million. To simply eat that a lot cash is concurrently unimaginable but in addition, if it’s being executed for the precise causes, honorable. If the studio really doesn’t suppose the film it has is nice sufficient for audiences, and that releasing it might injury the DC model as an entire, shedding $100 million now’s higher than the numerous billions it might lose sooner or later. You nearly respect the selection, although you concurrently really feel unhealthy for all of the arduous work everybody concerned put into it.

However, you additionally can’t assist however take into consideration how this suits into Warner Bros. and DC’s complicated and engaging historical past. How Justice League was first launched as an inferior model, which definitely did injury not simply to the DC model, however fractured the fan base. You can also’t assist however marvel about The Flash, one other upcoming Warner Bros. film that definitely price rather more than $100 million and has a a lot, a lot greater drawback than it simply not being a very good film: star Ezra Miller has change into a mainstay within the police blotter. Will that movie nonetheless be launched? And in that case, what does that say about Batgirl? Is unhealthy press okay however a foul film not?

So many questions, not lots of solutions. At least now. Whatever occurs right here, nobody can ever say that the behind the scenes drama at Warner Bros. and DC Films is boring.

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