What a bombshell Variety has just released: Warner has decided to kill the film of ‘Batgirl’ starring Leslie Grace (‘In a neighborhood of New York’). What sets this apart from other cancellations is that it comes after the filming of the DC movie has been completed and an investment of $90 million.
as if it never existed
In addition, Warner has decided not to release it anywhere, neither on HBO Max as originally planned nor elsewhere. The reason for this decision is that the new management regime behind Warner Bros Discovery has decided to refocus all its efforts on movies for the big screen and they had no room for ‘Batgirl’.
Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (‘Bad Boys Forever’), ‘Batgirl’ was not exactly a small bet by Warner, since J K Simmons played Commissioner Gordon, Michael Keaton reverted to his version of Batman and brendan fraser gave life to the great villain of the show. If even Grace commented a few months ago that they had already had talks about a possible sequel.
To complicate matters further, the decision to kill ‘Batgirl’ it has nothing to do with the quality of the film or the commitment of those involved, and even test passes had already been made. As he indicated before, Warner wants everything associated with DC to have the scale of a great blockbuster and that was not the case here.
This opens the door to other a priori unexpected movements, because Warner has a huge hot potato on his hands with the film of ‘The Flash’ starring by the conflictive Ezra Miller. If they have already thrown away 90 million like this, who knows what they do with that tape that was called to revolutionize the DC Extended Universe.