With all the fuss that has, understandably, been going on around James Gunn and Peter Safran’s brand new and recently announced plan to take on Marvel with their new DC Universeit was a matter of time before eyes turned to one of the studio’s most notorious recent controversies: the cancellation of ‘Batgirl’.
The right decision (or not)
Let’s remember that, about six months ago, the people of Warner decided suddenly cancel the feature film starring Leslie Grace once he had wrapped up his principal photography phase; a maneuver that meant the loss of the investment of 90 million dollars that was made in the project and which was followed by a number of other controversial decisions by Zaslav and his team.
But, Was Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision the right one? What was it really for? During the event held by the company on January 30, safranco-head of DC Studios, has stated that those responsible were correct, stressing that the film simply was not in a condition to be released.
“Batgirl is a character that we will inevitably include in our story. As far as Batgirl is concerned, it’s not that the movie was canceled late in its development process. I saw the movie, and there are so many incredibly talented people working in front of and behind it. cameras on it. But that film was not releaseable, and that happens sometimes. That film was unreleaseable. In fact, I think [David] Zaslav and the team made a very brave decision to cancel it, because it would have hurt DC. It would have harmed the people involved.”
Safran, in addition to opening the door for Batgirl to the reformulated DC Universe, has not hesitated to praise the people who participated in the production of the ill-fated film. What less.
“I think they stood up to support DC. The characters, the story, the quality of it all… I spoke to [los directores] Adil and Bilall last week, we were chatting. We would have loved to be in business with all those people. Christina Hodson wrote it. Like I said, a lot of talented people were involved, but the movie just wasn’t ready for release. It would not have been able to compete in the movie theater market; It wasn’t made for the small screen. So again, I think it wasn’t an easy decision, but they made the right decision by putting it on the shelf.”
Mystery solved. Let’s hope, yes, that the landing of Gunn and Safran once and for all puts the order that the macroproject of the Distinguished Competition has been needing since the collapse of the snyderverse.
Via | Variety