‘Batgirl’ Film Axed by Warner Bros., Won’t Be Released on Any Platform

I don't care for ANY of the versions of any of the Batman characters after the one and only 1960's tv show.

Looking at the photo the project was doomed from the start. Costumer designer forgot the pushup bra

Leslie Grace 🪦🪦🪦

Discovery is really gonna take the fun out of HBO Max. The king of garbage TV really does adore his "reality" shit

$90 million and they aren't going to release it? That's nuts. Meanwhile, they are still trying to decide what to do about The Flash with crazy Ezra. It seems like at this point they might as well release it.

Who would have though that Discovery would be dumber than AT&T.

By the looks of it, Black Girl would do well on BET.

[quote] Studio insiders insist the decision was not driven by the quality of the film or the commitment of the filmmakers, but by the desire for the studio’s slate of DC features to be at a blockbuster scale.

They thought it looked too shabby?

What is really going on? Why is it economically more sensible to not release it at all - after it's being made already? Does this happen more frequently than we're aware of?

how bad is it?

There definitely have been films that never saw the light of day back in the day.

Is it Catwoman bad? Supergirl bad? Steel bad? Now THOSE were bad DC movies!

It might be an Ezra Miller casualty. Michael Keaton's Batman was going to appear in the Flash and then continue into this and then appear in Aquaman 2. Batgirl is cancelled and Battfleck replaced Keaton in A2, so maybe the Flash is next?

Meanwhile, a bunch of bots convinced them to give Snyder $100 million dollars and six hours to redo a movie that flopped.

r8,

It's "We'd rather toss $90 million down the hole than release it" bad, Rose

The entire DCEU is a mess.

There is no coherent vision. It's all a bunch of one-off desperation projects to make money.

Until they do, they'll never have a huge success like Endgame because it takes years of movies and setup to get that sort of payoff. They'll always just limp along and produce hit-and-miss movies and tv shows.

Definitely among the strangest decisions to come out of Hollywood in recent memory. One can only presume the quality of the film was so bad that the studio decided it wasn’t worth the money it would take to reshoot it and just write off the entire production.

Is this mean or kind to Leslie Grace? I mean if she is awful it might be kind. Funny Girl's producers put their mistake Beanie Feldstein right out there.

Is that the one with the dull Zoe Kravitz?

As opposed to the lively Zoe Kravitz R17?

it must be BAD

I can’t understand the logic that put her in this outfit. Batgirl is about being young and sexy.

DC, and not Walter Hamada, are back tracking on a lot of projects. I was going to do Wonder Twins, and that went away. Who cares if it was going to be a piece of shit, I would have had work for 4 months. I heard Blue Beetle filming was brutal- 6 and 7 days weeks.

Brought to you from the same "brilliant" minds that want Lady Fuckface as a singing Harley Quinn in Phoenix's next Joker film.

And yet Ezra Miller can continue to be crazy but they'll still release The Flash.

Too bad to even show on HBO?

Variety chalks it up to taxes.

Doesn’t bode well for a Black Canary movie , which I was looking forward to. It also seems like this whole new deal will wreck HBO Max. It’s a really good platform now, but if Discovery is taking it over I think it will turn to shit.

R8 From what I heard about the test screenings, it wasn’t terrible but it wasn’t amazing. Enjoyable, but not something to build the DCEU around. Zaslav is a penny-pincher and wants the tax write-off more than he wants to release a movie that wasn’t made under his leadership, so that was that.

Sorry, here’s the Variety link.

Not the first movie that they refused to release.

Kevin Feige must be laughing his ass off.

If you film something called 'Batgirl' it better be fun, sexy and campy. And we know it wasn't; probably dark, sad and dreary.

Surely if they retooled it and released it on streaming, it would still be enough of a flop to get a tax write-off, but you'd also make some of your money back.

“ the filmmakers were told that it came down to a “purchase accounting” maneuver available to Warner Discovery because the company has changed hands, and also changed strategy from the previous regime. This opportunity expires in mid-August, said sources, and it allows Warner Bros Discovery to not have to carry the losses on its books at a time when the studio is trying to pare down $3 billion in debt across its divisions.”

My guess is that Flash is also able to take advantage of this write off and that film’s scrapping will be announced tomorrow.

I’ve always been more of a DC fan over Marvel, but I admit Marvel has done a much better job overall of creating a successful universe of film and tv. Virtually all the Marvel characters on film seem like their printed counterparts, whereas a lot of DC film characters have at most, a passing resemblance to the original characters.

They're reshooting Keaton's Batman scenes with Ben Affleck in the role?

Are they really THAT fucked in the head?

[quote]Virtually all the Marvel characters on film seem like their printed counterparts, whereas a lot of DC film characters have at most, a passing resemblance to the original characters.

The biggest exception to that being Thor, whose bufoonish movie incarnation bears little resemblance to his comics character. Thor in the movies is more akin to Hercules in the comics, It will be interesting to see how Hercules is portrayed when he makes it to the screen.

Comics Thor wasn't always that serious, He was a frog for a while.

I’m not a comic book movie fan, but I hope someone leaks this just out of curiosity.

[quote] They're reshooting Keaton's Batman scenes with Ben Affleck in the role? Are they really THAT fucked in the head?

If they scrap every film in which Michael Keaton is Batman, isn’t that necessary?

Remember this happened with the 1962 Helen Lawson version as well, for reasons which are well known to you. They just cannot make this picture successfully.

r34- it's because in the Flash, he alters reality to the Keaton Bat, if they don't release Flash, the Affleck Bat is dominant.

[quote]Comics Thor wasn't always that serious, He was a frog for a while.

Yes, but:

"The issue isn't played for laughs. Instead, Simonson treated the whole thing as a thrilling anthropomorphic epic that just so happens to feature familiar animals in starring roles, creating a story that places as much emphasis on conflict between frogs and rats in New York City as it does gods at war in Asgard, to surprising effect."

[quote]Remember this happened with the 1962 Helen Lawson version as well, for reasons which are well known to you.

True but that could simply be written off as Helen not aware of what she had signed up for (stupors will do that to you) and the old gal thinking she was starring in Twatgirl.

Fools. Helen Lawson was never cast as Batgirl in the sixties series. She was supposed to play Commissioner Gordon’s sister, who becomes BatBroad.

They're pulling the same accounting "loophole" schenanigans with a $40-mill animated Scooby-Do movie which was almost finished.

It was a follow up to a successful Pay-Per-View Scooby-Do movie released in 2020 for those of you not up to the minute with animated releases.

It they're going to do the same with The Flash they'd better do it soon because I think the legal window for the "loophole" ends soon. But, also, The Flash has been slated+scheduled within their DC release plan for YEARS so filming an entirely new huge movie with a different lead to fit in the original sched would delay the release of everything behind it A WHILE.

Maybe we’re finally seeing a backlash against ethnically ambiguous leading ladies?

R43, you have the role right but it definitely was a feature film. The story I heard is they didn't just shelve the movie, but the debut of the IMAX format too.

No it definitely was the Batman series. I remember the story because of Helen’s firing. She called Adam West “small fry” and West, assuming he’d slept with her and she was referring to the size of his manhood, had her escorted from the set.

Keaton, 70, as Batman, Bredan Fraser, 53, as a fat villain are bizarre choices but it would have been interesting to see what they did. A pity, really.

Warner Bros. has done the impossible...It's made me want to see their new Batgirl movie.

There has to be something really wrong if they won't even stream it. It makes no sense. It can't be worse than your average B movie or slasher flick.

Variety says its a Producers type accounting loophole where its worth more as a writedown than as a deliverable.

Hollywood money-laundering.

Introducing Yvonne Craig as BATGIRL

Marvel’s She- Hulk has the fourth-wall breaking, camp tone that Batgirl should have had.

Instead, they dressed her up like the Unabomber.

I don't mean this maliciously, but I'm most interested in seeing what happens when the bottom falls out of the superhero franchise market. I suspect it's going to be overnight, and there will be huge multi-million dollar projects in the works when it happens, kind of like when musicals went out of favor in the 1960s.

It'll never happen. Superhero films are the lowest form of cinematic "entertainment." You literally will have to film "Own, My Balls" to go any lower.

[quote] Virtually all the Marvel characters on film seem like their printed counterparts, whereas a lot of DC film characters have at most, a passing resemblance to the original characters.

Barbara Jordan/Batgirl is a hot redhead with big tits. Leslie Whatsername sure isn't that.

[quote]"Own, My Balls"

I'm guessing it'll have a trans cast?

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"Helen Lawson was never cast as Batgirl in the sixties series. She was supposed to play Commissioner Gordon’s sister, who becomes BatBroad."

"Now get outta my way. I got a BATMAN waiting for me!"

The directors of scrapped movie Batgirl have slammed Warner Bros' decision to axe the 'awful' $100million film as they said they hoped fans will one day get to see it.

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the shelved movie's directors, said they 'still can't believe' the shocking news that their creation was binned - and that they wished Batgirl could have been showed to fans across the world.

But God willing 'inshAllah' it will be one day, they said.

According to those who have seen the now-scrapped film, Michael Keaton's Batman was only featured in a few scenes — and did not serve as a mentor to Grace's Barbara Gordon, and the costumes were subpar.

'I'll say I'm not that surprised Batgirl got canceled as it features a woke Latino Batgirl and Barbara Gordon in a story that sounds downright awful,' Matt McGloin wrote for Cosmic Book News.

'Also that the costumes looked cheap, especially Keaton's Batman costume.'

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The world demands a LatinX Batgirl

She's short and fat. She ain't no superhero.

Does this look like Batgirl to you?

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So much for that first trans character in a DC movie

I knew the trannys would figure out how to make it all about them.

The widow Steele was on the Board of Directors apparently

her outfit alone is so fug.......sick of this woke shit.

How is her costume "woke"?

Not casting a white person = woke? Jeesus Crypto, you people are fragile.

And don't tell me Batgirl has always been white because there's like 17 different iterations of her in the the various DC comics, and not all of them are white.

Heck, the first Batgirl character to be featured in their own long run on-going comic book series was Asian.

Indeed her ourfit dont fit her.

Looks like BLUE BEETLE is next on the chopping block.

Also, CW has killed GOTHAM KNIGHTS. Sorry Misha stans.

Will J2 throw Misha a bone now?

It's over

Wrong Misha, R74.

How bad can this movie be? Plenty of piece of shit movies get released on streaming.

It must be a real turd. Worse than Cats?

Tax write off.

Different Misha same end R75

This publicity shot gave me nightmares. She's an attractive young woman and they've made her look like an actual turd.

Sorry, I meant to actually write maybe there’s finally a backlash against mediocre, interchangeable, ethnically ambiguous actresses.

Is Gotham Knights really cancelled or is that just a rumor?

R80- that's what she looks like under the mask, a la the Patterson Batman. Someone on reddit pointed out that it's year one for the Batgirl character, so her costume should look shitty- like other supes trying to find their look as well (Spidey, Deadpool, et al).

This is a really great article:

The costume that you're all complaining about is based on her re-designed look that Babs Tarr create for the Batgirl of Burnside arc a few years ago.

Granted, she recently mostly hung the cape back up and returned to being Oracle, with Cassie and Stephanie sharing the name now.

r21, any other industry dirt you can share?

[quote]An Afro-Latina-led Batgirl movie, directed by filmmakers of Moroccan descent, and starring a transgender Asian woman (Ivory Aquino), would have generated some positive buzz for the studio that wants to assure its audience that it’s committed to diversity.

The diversity-by-committee model doesn't mean the movie will be any good.

r86. Baffleck does wear a front piece, and smokes where he shouldn't.

My video shows the citizens of Gotham City. That footage is at least six years old.

Well now everybody is paranoid.

Looks like crap, and her outfit is pitiful.....

Discovery channel buying Warners is beyond odd and smells fishey......

How unfortunate for HBO and Warner Bros. that they have fallen into the clutches of these clowns from Discovery.

Seems like everyone's missed the explanation at R64's link -- it went WAY OVER the WOKE threshold, and the studio FINALLY LISTENED.

"But why was it cancelled so late in the day, and after so much time, money and resources had been spent on it?

Some have alleged the film may have been scrapped rather than released for tax reasons; Warner Bros can now claim Batgirl as a tax write-off — helping it recoup some of its costs elsewhere. However, that doesn't account for why the film was so bad in the first place.

And here there are certainly strong clues to suggest that Batgirl was only the latest in a long and disastrous line of Hollywood films that have prioritised politically correct values over entertainment. As Robin might say, Holy Woke, Batman!

The film was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, young Moroccan-Belgians best known for the TV series Ms Marvel, about a Muslim Pakistani-American teenage girl who is bullied at school until she develops superpowers.

When Ms Marvel was released in June, it received a tsunami of abuse from comic book fans complaining about its unbearable wokeness.

(The series is made by Disney, so progressive nowadays that it applies racism warnings to the crows in Dumbo and offers a children's show — called 'Baymax!' — which features a scene in which a robot asks a transgender man what sort of sanitary product he should buy for a 12-year-old girl.)

Batgirl's screenplay was by Christina Hodson, the British writer of ultra-feminist film Birds Of Prey, accused by one critic of 'hating on men — all men . . . [and] dull to the point of numbing'.

Batgirl also featured a transgender character, Alysia Yeoh, Barbara Gordon's flatmate, played by the trans actor Ivory Aquino.

The appearance, critics say, is of a film putting its 'progressive' values ahead of all other concerns.

And not for the first time. Superhero films — normally somewhere audiences might go to escape our era's endless culture wars — have increasingly become major repositories of wokery.

In 2021, Marvel's mega-budget movie Eternals — starring Angelina Jolie, Kit Harington and Richard Madden — was panned by fans and critics alike as dull and preachy. It included Marvel's first gay superhero and its first deaf one.

Lightyear, a spin-off from Pixar's celebrated Toy Story film series, was expected to be one of the biggest movies of this summer. Instead, it bombed.

Critics complained that it substituted liberal virtue-signalling — Buzz Lightyear's commanding officer is a black lesbian and the film features the first same-sex kiss in a Pixar production — for the simple, unpoliticised joys of the original movies.

By contrast, this summer also saw the release of Top Gun: Maverick, a barnstorming reboot of the wildly popular 1986 film Top Gun, an action film about gung-ho American fighter pilots. It has provided a sharp rejoinder to Hollywood bosses who insist their increasingly right-on output is just a reaction to changing audience tastes and social mores.

Tom Cruise's new film proudly re-treads much the same ground as the original Boy's Own-style adventure, featuring virtually no women, no let-up in the shameless machismo and no scenes in which pilots question their sexuality or their patriotic devotion to U.S. firepower.

In short, it's almost joyfully off-message with 2020s Hollywood.

Perhaps as a result, it's been a monster hit with critics and at the box office — so far it's the highest-grossing film of the year and, remarkably, given his long history of making blockbusters, even of Cruise's career."

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The power that Cluster Bs have amounted in the past few years is remarkable. They’ve convinced major corporations to lose billions with the wild misconception that the rest of the world follows their damaged, unreasonable, and pathologically “delicate” point of view.

The crazy thing is these companies aren’t even making any money from the Cluster Bs! They’re going after projects that aren’t aimed after them and they don’t have money to spend on the project they claim to want to see. Do you think any of these internet crybabies have jobs? They don’t spend a single minute of the day that isn’t entirely self-motivated and if they do have money — from the government, from hubby, from their rich white mommy and daddy — it sure as fuck isn’t going to DC.

Sorry, I forgot GoFundMe

I had to look up “cluster b”. For those who also need it: Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

Night of the Right Wing Troll Invasion

"Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder."

So basically, people who voted for Trump.

[quote] "Cluster B personality disorders are characterized by dramatic, overly emotional or unpredictable thinking or behavior. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder." So basically, people who voted for Trump.

Precisely

So basically, Trump.

[quote]her outfit alone is so fug.......sick of this woke shit.

Are trolls even trying anymore?

The existence of non-white people really triggers the snowflakes around here. Just seeing a non-white person in media makes them label it the dreaded "woke."

These people are completely fragile. The smallest things set them off.

Shit big budget movies should be shelved more often; maybe it would force the directors/producers to take more care with the millions they were given make something good.

[quote] maybe it would force the directors/producers to take more care with the millions they were given make something good.

You think they actually have control over what they're doing? These types of films are made by committee. The studio has a dozen executives weighing in on every creative decision from a marketing standpoint. These films are directing as much as they are assembled.

They previewed the film -- it received OVERWHELMING negative reactions, mainly because people were sick of going to movies where EVERY SINGLE ONE has to have some sort of transgendered or LGBTQURKSABCED character or characters or else it isn't diverse enough.

The films that are doing well don't feel the need to have this forced 'inclusiveness'. Glad to hear the studios are waking up to this woke shit, pardon the pun.

[quote] Glad to hear the studios are waking up to this woke shit

We will 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 stop !

Don't you mean 'Wokeforce', Sarah?

They should just release it to Netflix. It can't be any worse than anything else currently on there. I actually feel a bit bad for the main star, this was supposed to be her big break. Her response on Instagram was classy and good natured but it's got to be rough. They should release the film to a streaming outlet and let audiences decide for themselves.

R96 Sure, a number of online keyboard warriors are cluster b. But so are the nuts screaming and wailing about wokeness everytime a non white individual is cast in anything. America is a borderline personality disordered culture. The right wingers flipping their shit over a POC actor aren't any better than someone who spends all day whining about 20 year old sitcoms like Friends .

The film wasn't finished, R109, so just when were all these previews and how many were there?

Woke didn't kill Batgirl. The new CEO killed what his predecessor greenlit. It's a common CEO egomaniac "clean slate / cleaning house" practice.

But sure, haters. Dance your little woke victory dance.

Okey dokey,

Hollywood needs to make some more white guy action movies. That seems to be the message from TGM. Also good movies need to be shown in theatres and not go straight to streaming. The Ron Howard film 13 Lives needed to be shown as a feature film first. It would have made some money there.

The gay, LatinX, trans etc. super hero film trope is getting tired.

The reasoning I heard was in addition to being abysmal, it was too expensive for online streaming, and way too cheap looking for theatrical release, so they're cutting their losses and writing it off.

As mentioned before, WB can't write it off as a tax reduction if they release it in any way, movie theater or streaming platform. The new CEO decided to cancel the project his predecessor started and use it as tax write off.

That's not really true, R119. They're able to write off all the movies they just pulled from the platform even though they've all been up there for varying periods of time. WHile it wouldn't be a 100% write down of what they spent, they could air it, claim it didn't bring in any new business (which would be ridiculous) and write off a good chunk of it. I think he's trying to send a message.

DC Films “Reset” Adds More Confusion for Warner Bros.’ Slate:

[Quote] I actually feel a bit bad for the main star, this was supposed to be her big break. Her response on Instagram was classy and good natured but it's got to be rough.

Now i'm wondering what will happen with the actress who plays Supergirl in the Flash movie. Even if she gets a positive reception, i doubt Sasha will get her own movie or show and they will just rehash the same old movie about Superman.

Obviously the entire world has been demanding a LatinX Supergirl from Columbia

R123 LatinX? Really?

A lot of what gets called woke in comic based films came directly from the original comics.

I've always like Sasha Calle, but she doesn't look good in that Supergirl outfit.

She looks horrid!

She looks fine.

Flat Girl.

The ab muscles are hilarious- they look like bones.

R115, fine, live in complete denial. The #1 complaint from the preview audiences was the indeed and specifically the WOKE factor. Read the review(s) above that detailed the overwhelmingly negative reaction. People want to be entertained, not preached to.

Why don't they hire Beanie Feldstein - CGI out Leslie Grace and CGI Beanie into the movie!

A $90 million dollar write off?

That boggles the mind...

To think of all the other things they could have used this money for.

At the very least, I wish I'd taken home some leftovers from the craft services

Let's cast Ezra Miller as Batgirl!

Warners should have offered me more money for the small role they wanted to pay me to briefly appear in the film.

After all, I would have got another Oscar nomination, made the film releasable and it would have been a big box office hit.

Oh well......

R131 it had nothing to do with being woke. One of the issues was that it looked cheap.

Yvone Craig applauds this decision from her Bat Perch in Heaven..Alicicia Silverstone is in a coma because she wasn't even offered the role.

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we saw it at preview and it was the most preachy boring pos that the wokers have foisted on us ever ....

R138, yes, let's ignore any opinions that we don't insist are the correct ones.

Not enough TITS!

What are incels supposed to rub out their stubby lil nubbins to?

They should cancel every film in development and start over

How bad was it? So many POS series and movies get released on streaming, this must be the worst thing ever.

It.can't be much worse than all of the Marvel crap proliferating on Disney+. I can't wait until this comic book movie craze ends. And I like comic books, but with a few exceptions, they don't make for good cinema.

I’ve been waiting for it to end for 20 years now

HAS WOKENESS NOW BEEN CANCELLED???