Batgirl Movie Cancelled, Won’t Be Released on HBO Max or Theatrically
Warner Bros. Discovery is hanging up Batgirl‘s cowl much earlier than expected, according to a shocking new report.
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The standalone film Batgirl, which was set to star In the Heights‘ Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl, is being shelved, according to the New York Post. The movie was initially announced as an HBO Max release, though a theatrical run was also being considered. Now, it looks like neither will happen.
An on-record reason for the shelving has, of course, not been released. But according to reports, the nearly completed film — whose budget is said to have ballooned to more than $90 million — was not testing well enough with audiences to instill confidence in Warner Bros. Discovery, which has ramped up its cost-cutting efforts following Warner Bros. merger with Discovery.
Little had been announced about Batgirl‘s plot, though Brendan Fraser was reportedly playing the villainous Firefly, while J.K. Simmons was said to be reprising his Justice League role as Barbara’s father, Commissioner Gordon. And Michael Keaton, who famously played Bruce Wayne aka Batman on the big screen in 1989’s Batman and 1992’s Batman Returns, was also set to once again suit up for Batgirl.
Batgirl was written by Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey), and directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life).
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Honestly, it seems kind of sexist. They are not shelving The Flash despite Ezra Millers’ disturbing meltdowns, but will cancel Batgirl to save money?
But why shelve it when it’s almost done! Release it and let the audience decide if it is good! A sample testing audience can’t be the reason.
Warner Bros clearly doesn’t want a Morbius on their hands.
But surely because the millions are already spent, why not try to get some of that back?
It costs money to put it in theaters and theaters get a cut — never mind advertising; so you’re just throwing good money after bad. If the movie is as bad as the test marketing says it is, bad publicity can do more harm than good. If they are shelving this thing, it has to be really, really bad.
It was never going to cinemas. It was an HBOMax exclusive.
Felipe, that was originally the case. Then they decided on theaters. Now neither.
It wasn’t about bad testing results. Check articles on Variety and Deadline (can’t link here)
They have to cut costs due to new management WBD and one of the “solutions” is shelving Batgirl (and “Scoob!” sequel cause they can profit from a special tax reduction where they’ll get money back they already spent in the production process. See my other post with quotes from the articles.
The movie isn’t finished but is already over budget by around $20mill. So with more needing spent on it to complete, several million needing spent on marketing even without a cinema release (although it would potentially need a cinema release in some international markets) and while cinema released movies see actors having backend payments in their contracts but as there is no box office for these streaming release movies often see actors contracts due a one-off payment on release which would see several million more to be paid out the second it lands on HBO Max.
And then most importantly there is the insurance factor. if you shelve a movie and lock all the footage away in a vault never to see the light of day then insurance policies can be cashed in. So if a movie tests so badly that the feeling is it’s going to completely flop they can recoup more by not releasing it than by releasing it,
Correct Simon (as stated by Variety) but the only thing that doesn’t apply to this case it that they didn’t have bad test results. According to Deadline there was only one test. The NY Post article just put out there that it was cause of bad previews and all the outlets just copy-pasted the article without verifying. Variety and Deadline did verify and found out what it was really about… Also, a “Scoob!” sequel was shelved for this exact reason. Not due to bad testing, but taxes…
“Sources said that the film tested once, and the result wasn’t that bad, considering that the cut had temporary visual effects which tend to temper audience enthusiasm in the scores.”
Agreed. Recoup some Sounds like our government 😱
Discovery, is leaving projects incomplete as tax write offs, they can use money spent and potential lost profits to write off against major spending buying WB, they will continue this
again this is an hbo/max release so it wouldn’t be morbius and to me this has everything to do with them pushing back the release of the flash so this has everything to do with them and miller
Because all their other films have been absolutely top-notch!
I guess the question is how much MORE money it would have taken to finish the editing and special effects, and to market it. Also, I don’t think DC can afford to damage their brand any further (at least on the movie side)
Finishing and releasing a bad movie might actually lose them more money than just scrapping it altogether.
Exactly, let an audience decide weather it’s any good. Don’t just shelve it without explanation. Start a SaveBatgirl Campaign.
All I know is that since this Discovery Channel genius took over, he has turned HBO from a must watch into a “should I cancel?”
If the last couple years have taught me anything, it’s that Hollywood is a sexist place that places money as its god to a degree at which I didn’t fully understand was possible. That’s of course, not true for everyone and every corner or studio. But the depravity that has come to light from that place is truly shocking.
Some of these sexist/racist comments are ridiculous! They would’ve never green lit it in the first place if they were racist/sexist. You really think they would go through the trouble of casting a black female lead and spend all that money just to shut it down? The same people who green lit it are the ones who canceled it so to call them that is absurd. There is so much racist/sexist stuff going on in the would that when you call it on stuff that isn’t it takes away from the real problems. I’m sure it was just a bad movie and that’s why they didn’t want to release, not bc they all of sudden said let’s be racist/sexist and flush all this money even after the same people have it a go ahead.
The executives who greenlit it are not the same people who cancelled it at all, the company has been purchased since then and the executive ranks cleared out.
What world have you been living? Of course it’s about money. Or do you think things are for free?
Sexist *and* racist, a double-whammy. Leslie Grace deserves better, everyone who worked on the project deserves better. And no doubt they’re going to make Sasha Calle and Michael Keaton carry the promotional load when(ever) The Flash premieres. WB remains garbage.
STOP!! This has nothing to do with being sexiest ir racist. You think they would go through the trouble of making this movies with a black female lead and then all of a sudden turn racist/sexist and scrap it. That’s ridiculous! I’d they were racist/sexist they would’ve never green lit it in the first place. There is so much racism & sexism that goes on in the world already so stop using it when there is none bc it takes away from when there actually is.
fyi – Leslie Grace is Latina or more specifically I’m pretty sure she identifies as Afro-Latina
but not as black/ African-American
WB leaked the news to the NY Post first. They went to a sympathetic, right-wing owned outlet who framed the movie as “irredeemable.” They worked hard and moved quickly to tear this movie down, at a reported loss of $130M. It is impossible not to watch this destruction and not contrast it to how they’ve ignored Ezra Miller’s antics, which would’ve cost anyone else on this planet their job.
Did you actually see that article? They completely trashed all of WB, not just the movie. If they “leaked” that it completely backfired.
I’ll agree that the NY Post article was pretty awful and the cancelling of Batgirl gave a ton of racists validation (I have been seeing quite a few “Woke Batgirl goes broke” articles and videos). However, this has NOTHING to do with race. Zaslav has been ruthless with canceling DC properties and projects to the point I wouldn’t be surprised if Aquaman 2 or Blue Beetle are the final things to come out of the DCEU. If this was a race thing that whitewashed Wonder Twins movie probably wouldn’t have gotten the ax.
Are you trolling or do you literally not understand how unconscious bias works?
Literally nobody on the planet is suggesting they maliciously set up a fake project just to pull the rug out from under a black woman. Rather, the suggestion is “merely” that is that the bar for “this looks like too big of a risk, we’re going to pull the plug” would be higher for a film led by a white man.
Now, obviously I can’t prove that’s the case (though Ezra Miller’s movie not being pulled is a big hint), but it’s drastically less far-fetched than you’re claiming. This refusal to see racism unless you see a white hood and a burning cross is something a whole lot of y’all need to get over.
No, I get it but to see racism everywhere when it obviously isn’t a factor is a thing too. There is so much racism that goes on in the world both in your face & unconscious bias but this isn’t it. There are plenty of movies led by white males that get pulled the same way this one has. If it doesn’t test well & looks like it’s going to be a negative for your company then they’re going to pull it regardless who the star is. I agree about Ezra Miller & the mess they’ve made but to compare that film to this one is not the same thing. That film will still make money no matter what. I guarantee if they didn’t already shoot the entire thing they would’ve replaced Ezra. But this business is all about money & if The Flash makes them money they’ll release it. Again, plenty of films by white males have been pulled just like Batgirl.
Name one nearly complete 90 million dollar film led by a White man shelved, not even sold to another outlet or dumped on their own streaming service, but shelved,
Name one film at a 90 million budget starring a White Male, preppy much finished, that was just shelved. Not dumped on streaming. Not sold to another service. Shelved. Name one. Please. Because Morbius, New Mutants, Death on the Nile, Cloverfield:Paradoxx, all saw the light of the day. Even Munsters will hit Netflix.
Google is your friend. Try “13 Completed Films That Were Never Released.” But ‘The Day the Clown Cried,’ ‘Black Water Transit,’ ‘Hippie Hippie Shake,’ ‘Dark Blood,’ ‘Empire of the Deep,’ Nothing Lasts Forever,’ and ‘The Brave’ are a few. Haven’t heard of them? They weren’t released.
None of them had a budget anything like this. Google is my friend. Reading is you enemy.
You said name one. The goalposts, they are a’movin’.
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Empire of the Deep had a $130 million dollar budget. Over a decade ago.Try again.
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Reading apparently is not “your” friend.
Olga Kurylenko is a White man? You couldn’t find one, could you? Goalpost was always the same. “Name one nearly complete 90 million dollar film led by a White man shelved”. But, thanks, the sexism claim feels a lot stronger now.
Well, considering she played Taskmaster…
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But are you talking acted, directed…what’s “led?”
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The way you’re moving the goalposts I’m guessing next it will be “name me a movie that had no people of color in it at all and made by completely white men that was made in the last 2 years and features a superhero and was scheduled to come out on a Sunday when the moon was full. SEE?!?!?!?! I told you you couldn’t.”
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How often is there a merger that allows a tax write off like this? But you’re right, Scooby Doo isn’t a white man either.
Dude, what are you talking about? NOBODY has moved the goal post!! The goal was to “Name one nearly complete 90 million dollar film led by a White man shelved” and you have yet to deliver on that. If this an attempt at gaslighting your doing a really bad job at it.
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Your just invalidating your own argument at this point.
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I named a movie that cost over $130 dollars directed by a white man. Then led turned into acting in. Moving. If you’re going to be so specific in the request that only one movie in existence could qualify then it’s a bad faith argument. It has to be only movie that have come out since they even started costing that much anyway, which isn’t a long time, and actually got shelved, which is a shorter list. If it’s going to be that specific I could say Name one nearly complete 90 million dollar film led by a Minority shelved other then this one, but they would be in bad faith. When you put restrictions that make it do you can only refer to one movie it goes both ways.
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But it doesn’t change the fact they scrubbed the Scoobs sequel for the same reason. They just yanked a bunch of movies off HBO Max for the same money saving (starring you can’t get much more pasty Seth Rogen and Anne Hathaway, among others). What it does say is if they don’t think they can make back their money on a superhero flick that wasn’t even that expensive it must truly be some garbage.
They also cancelled the Scoobs sequel. Add speciesist.
While I do agree that is seems that way there is one huge difference between the two films — Batgirl budget is around 70 million, The Flash is reportedly around +200 million(which does not include the marketing), that is a sum of money that they cannot overlook and simply shelve the movie.
That being said, I’m really concerned for the Blue Beatle movie now…
Blue Beetle doesn’t appear to tie into The Flash, while Batgirl was pretty much a direct spinoff of The Flash. Plus, Blue Beetle appears to be a better adaptation, while Batgirl was just sloppily ripping off other character stories and forcing them onto Barbara. Honestly, the character deserves better than this movie was ever going to be.
I’ll take solace in that, if they release a bad Batgirl movie now she is going to be benched for decades again.
Everything is this that “ism” nowadays without any concrete prove, just casual thrown out
What is concrete proof of racism or sexism? Because I’ve experienced both in my lifetime (several times) and I’ve still watched people doing the most to justify it and write it off as anything but what it clearly was. So the word of those it happens to or who experienced it is clearly not enough (also see Ray Fisher).
So I really genuinely want to know what you believe would be concrete proof in this situation.
After the Zack Snyder revelations, Ray Fisher may not be the best example…
What Zack Snyder revelations? And how does that have anything to do with Ray Fisher? How does anything related to Zack Snyder (who I can’t stand anyway) invalidate Ray Fisher’s experiences with WB/DC?
Rolling Stone had an expose how he manipulated fake social media and smear campaigns to get WB to let him do his Justice League movie and make everyone else look bad. Included was that he conspired with Ray Fisher to smear the WB execs and get them to lose control over the films and let him put Fisher back in from all the cuts he suffered. Makes everyone look really bad.
I really reaaallllllly doubt The Flash movie is released June 2023. It’s more WB spending so much money on the project that with the Miller stuff coming to light they dont know what to do with it. Shelving it would be like burning 100s of millions of dollars but they may be left with very little choice.
To be noted that Batgirl had already ballooned up to $90 million (up from a designated $70 million)just so far and still not completed with the expenses of CGI and Special Effects,etc post-production yet to be done.
Honestly, this seems kind of lazy.
The Flash movie has a budget that’s possibly up to triple that of Batgirl, and is supposedly integral to the resetting of the DCEU. The production budget for Batgirl has been spent but the promotional costs would likely match or exceed that $90 million
Before making such trite assumptions, is it possible for people to consider that there are legitimate reasons as to why this got canned?
Yeah, I get it, the answer to my question is no…
How much does it cost to promote a streaming movie? Like, show the trailer on your own social media accounts and people will share those links and entertainment websites will write stories etc. And on HBO Max, you’ll have the trailer and spotlight it on the homepage when it first comes out. It doesn’t need billboards and TV ads
They need to do way more promotion than a few social media accounts releasing trailers if they want the level of viewership that justifies $90million being spent. They would need tens of millions to be spent just on the US release. They would however need their international arms of the company to also spend millions in each region also.
In addition, there are a couple of other factors. When a movie is going to streaming as the actor loses any potential to backend earnings which are now common on actors’ contracts they have to agree to payments on release. By not releasing it these payments don’t kick in saving millions of dollars of additional payments.
And finally by the footage all being locked away in a vault never to be released there are insurance claims that can be made to make some of the money back which they couldn’t on release. This is the main reason why films don’t get released because the insurance payout will bring in more than they feel the actual release will.
Netflix releases films weekly without spending tens of millions on the US alone. This was always a streaming film, so, your whole non-sense about backend is just a lie. They’ll collect zero dollars from insurance, because they made a voluntary decision to shelve the film. The film post-production was nearly completed. The whole idea it still needed million upon millions was is also a lie.
Actually, Simon is correct.
If you want more info, look it up at Variety and Deadline. They qualify for a a tax write-down on both films (Batgirl and the Scoob! sequel, often forgotten is also shelved)
This opportunity expires in mid-August 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.
Also, even if it was released on HBO max (less promo budget needed than a theatrical release) it would still be investing more money so they EARN from shelving the project… Also, they only tested once and that was without the final special effects/visuals (see Deadline and BBC) so it wasn’t a “quality issue”
I can’t list the links to the articles on Deadline and Variety here because my comment will not go through but worth it to take a look.
The merger has affected these projects more so. Usually when companies merge like this, they look for cost cutting projects to drop. Unfortunately, Batgirl is one of those casualties.
Ezra Miller doesn’t identify as a man so how can it be sexist?
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All these -ism posts committing a few isms themselves.
Batgirl was from another Dc universe, FLash was supposed to introduced her as a female Batman, you can bet that didnt sit well with anyone that got shown the movie. This also means that Ezra is done as flash as well.
Ezra will probably be done as Flash after that film is released. But the cancellation of Batgirl doesn’t necessarily relate to Ezra being fired. And Warner Bros. doesn’t want to announce his firing before the film is released. But I guarantee a few months after the Flash is released, they will announce his replacement if they haven’t done so already in the film.
Nooooooooooooo!
It certainly seems like the DC universe television and film properties have cooled lately. Post-pandemic and pre-sale, companies are paying closer attention to things they let slide during the pandemic, like viewership and audience reactions, I suppose.
Holy s… this is WILD, I was actually excited to see this one, sad for the cast and crew, especially Brendan Fraser his take on Firefly looked cool, but alas, feels like the time where WB would release anything with the DC stamp on it is over
That seems super weird to just scrap the whole thing if it’s practically shot already?! With that caliber of talent involved?! How bad is it lol
My gut feeling is, no one wastes a 90-million film that’s nearly completed. Not forever. It doesn’t make financial sense to release it now, but it will someday. WB will have a hole in their schedule, will be looking at assets they have they can tap, will realize they have a nearly completed film it “only” takes X million dollars to finish the effects for, and this movie will come out somewhere. Might be a decade or more, but there’s no way it’s shelved forever. Favorable conditions for its release in some form will someday arise.
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I’m not surprised it’s terrible, though. For starters, she was horribly miscast. That suit looks cheap and terrible. And it just feels like at the moment audiences are sick of “Batman but not Batman” projects and are ready to turn on them. That won’t always be the case. But it’s DC’s own fault for not being more careful with what Batman-related projects they’ve allowed to be greenlit recently.
Wow, $70M+ down the drain. That will help with their cost-cutting efforts.
LOL
Sorry, don’t care 🤷🏼♀️
Then why waste your time with a comment?
I’m sure WB is weeping at your indifference.
They don’t really seem to care about all the people who aren’t indifferent and care a lot, either, apparently.
what else DON’T you care about … please elaborate further
in specific detail — why you don’t care … when you stopped caring or did you ever care ?
is it possible to change your mind or you’re dead set on not caring ?
do you always read articles and say you don’t care ?
“do you always read articles and say you don’t care ?”
Just because she left a comment, doesn’t mean that she read anything past the headline. With that said, her comment was pointless.
I’d be ok with shelving everything that relates to The Flash in any way, and this might be a part of that. While The Flash hasn’t officially been canned yet, they’re reshooting parts of Aquaman 2 which featured Keaton’s Bruce Wayne and replacing him with Affleck. If they get rid of Batgirl (which is not a proper adaptation of an iconic character, but more of a messy Batman Beyond ripoff) and The Flash, they can avoid the train wreck that is Flashpoint. The DC universe is a mess, on screen and on the page, and I am happy to see that whoever is in charge now isn’t afraid to cut off the rot. I was actually a fan of the DC movies more than the Marvel crap, until they went completely insane and messed it up.
My guess is that it would cost them too much the shelve the flash with the backend deals the cast has.
They’re probably looking at options, like reshoots, a mid-movie recast, etc. It is a lot of money to waste, but basing their entire future around The Flash could cost them billions in the years to come. They were probably hoping that the Ezra problem would go away, but it just kept getting worse. I expect it to be canned eventually, and it will ultimately be better for the whole franchise.
I agree that the PR nightmare with The Flash is just beginning. If Ezra Miller was a supporting actor they could seriously cut down his screen time and keep him away from promotional interviews But how do they promote the film when he’s THE titular star and his erratic behavior makes him a walking timebomb?
Sounds like a great cast
Boooo!
This wasn’t a movie that was cancelled in pre-production. It was being filmed. It was nearly done. This is a disservice to everyone who has been working on it Actors, writers, director, designers, etc.
I agree.
All those people have been paid already. If it’s garbage, they got paid plus they aren’t publicly shamed. If anyone is losing out, it would be post-production, like VFX. The studio is mostly sitting on a bunch of green screen crapola and cutting their losses.
I agree. Which is why this movie needs to be seen, This sets a dangerous precedent that other major studios might do the same thing. We can’t allow that to happen. An artist’s vision needs to be protected & shared with everyone, so that people can make their own minds about weather the content is good. Start a campaign to save the picture. HastagSaveBatgirl Get people talking.
“ We can’t allow that to happen. An artist’s vision needs to be protected”. What a egocentric comment. You talk like movies are above everything else. People get fired everyday for doing crappy jobs. Likely, they thought the movie wasn’t good, too much money being spending for a movie that would be released quietly in the streaming so they cancelled. Live with that.
Everybody is willing to spend someone else’s money.
In this industry, there are no guarantees. Every project is a gamble. The fact that they went this far into development, only to pull the plug now doesn’t sit right. We’ve been tracking the production, cheering on the castings, getting excited for what it might be, only to have them do this, and just as they’re reaching the finish line.
people are saying the MCU has problems but it’s doing amazing compared to the DCEU right now, it’s been years and still haven’t gotten their act together.
The DCEU is on life support and from a creative standpoint needs to be retooled and rebooted.
Why not show it on hbo max ,nothing to lose !IF the movie is bad so what ,it might just turn out as a cult film look at streets of fire in movies it had low box office count but when shown on cable it became a huge sucess.
That’s what I was thinking. Since the movie’s almost finished, why not get something back for all of their work. I would think that at least putting it on HBO Max with their regular junk, er, movies, at least it will be viewed and no worse than some of the other stuff that DC has put out recently. And speaking of which, you would think that after all of these years of trying to get a decent DC movie out that they would have learned by now of how to do it right. Instead, with a couple of exceptions, all they’ve done is stand in front of the train track and just wait for that train to run them over, which is exactly what is going to happen if they release that wreck with Ezra’s “Flash.” At least with this almost finished Batgirl, they may get a buck or two by showing it on streaming, rather than waste money publicizing the upcoming “Flash” movie.
Discovery is just dumping everything to save money. They got rid of a bunch of WB people and now they don’t have new people in place to plan/shape the company’s long term vision yet. Alan Horn is back in consultanting capacity so finger crossed that will help with this Flash/Batgirl mess
I’m starting to get the odd feeling Michael Keaton returning as batman is not gonna end up happening…I feel Discovery may be keen to get batfleck back or just start all over, and this is coming from a lifelong Batman Keaton fan
I could see 70 year-old Keaton possibly playing Batman’s father, but not a believable Batman. Maybe people planning this movie finally woke up to that fact.
Gee. Michael Keaton as Batman out of Aquaman 2 AND Batgirl.
Surprised it’s been canned this far down the line, but at the same time we’ve seen so many projects that the studio doesn’t like, they interfere in it, and then it tanks anyway. Justice League (not just interference there, but everyone knows that story), Suicide Squad, the Schumacher Batman movies on the DC side, Fantastic Four (Trank’s version), Dark Phoenix and New Mutants on the Fox/Marvel side.
Wow!!! I didn’t see that coming. If it wasn’t doing well with test audiences than wouldn’t that be the time to get the feedback and correct the issues with the film? Why scrap a nearly finished product.
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Sorry for the cast and crew. I was really looking forward to watching it whether it was going to be a strictly straight to HBO Max release or not.
I hate when people pull the sexist or racist card just because the main actress is a woman of color. If that was an issue they never would have cast the actress that they did in the first place.
While I don’t think a test audience is a good enough reason to cancel the project and while it is shocking, i’m also sort of not surprised because of all the other cancellations that WB has been doing, especially on the CW. Those shows weren’t necessarily the decision of the CW, they were decisions by WB as well.
That much was obvious when we found out from Todd Helbing the reason why S&L is set in a different universe than the Arrowverse shows. He said something to the effect that it made since because the arrowverse shows were being cancelled. He had to have known early on to work the other universe reveal into the season 2 finale.
$90 million Gone just like that. It’s disgusting.
well not gone .. just spent and the people who worked, production equipment rented on location and all the related service companies (ie. local catering & restaurants, extras casting agencies, etc) … all at least got paid
of course it was all overseas in Europe (so not for any local economies in the states)
Nearly completed and not going to be released? Wow!
i’m not buying what they say and it’s brecause of them pushing the flash back means that batgirl was likely going to be pushed back
“Cost-cutting” at Discovery is going to end up destroying HBOMax.
This is why I just go firmly with Marvel as DC just can’t get it together. Almost everything they do that seems like a step I. The right direction just crashes and burns. If you can’t make JK Simmons and Keaton returning as Batman work then why are you even trying.
Cost-cutting can’t be the real reason. Money has already been spent, so finish it and earn some back through a theatrical release and video sales.
Money ha already been spent-true (reportedly about $90 million -$20 million over-run on it’s projected budget) but has still not been completed. Big Fantasy/action movies come with very expensive CGI and Special Effects plus other post-production costs to be added.I imagine that,like non-entertainment businesses, they’ll be taking tax write-offs on the loses.
David Zaslav isn’t kidding.
This is ridiculous. You shoot a $90 million dollar Superhero movie that people may want to see& is already part of an established franchise that is a reliable moneymaker then shelve it without explanation?! And yet “The Flash” will get released on schedule, despite the fact that the main star of that movie has had multiple meltdowns & legal problems! I feel sorry for the actors, the producers, the writers & the director who worked hard on this movie. This movie deserves to be seen. This is further just proof to me that the Warner/Discovery Merger has been nothing, but a disaster. I will say this & say it again. This movie deserves to be seen. Who agrees with me?
The Flash movie is never going to see the light of day. WB/DC can’t tie themselves to an unreliable/dangerous/mentally unstable star for several years – including having the person talk to the press on junkets. It’s the primary reason why Batgirl is being shelved since the movie’s entire plot directly leads out of it and it’s also why Afleck is suddenly in Aquaman 2 replacing Keaton. Blame Ezra Miller. It’s entirely his fault. WB/DC can’t come out and say it that directly.
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