WB On Batgirl: We’re Not Releasing A Movie Unless We Believe In It

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[@altair1514]

WB: We’re not releasing a movie unless we believe in it. Also WB: cancels Coyote V Acme after it has been doing really well in scores.

[@dylancogdell5233]

I’m just bummed I don’t get see brenden Frazier flex his chops. That dude is a legend imo.

[@lukeandreasen5389]

It's not about the money. It's about sending a message.

[@gvetech]

I usually don't agree with you John but you are so spot on with your take on this. Serious quality control needs to be in place in these big studios who keep pumping out subpar theatrical movies.

[@leandromafe]

I agree with Kris: while I don't want wb to keep throwing crap at the wall to see what sticks, I'm also reluctant that innovation might be discarded along with incompetence.

[@WhiteRaven696]

I don’t care about Batgirl. I just want that Scooby-Doo Christmas movie.

[@SecondTake123]

Me too! Poor Scooby-Doo!

[@kurtvangogh420]

and directed by james gunn*

[@theflickspicksnthenitpicks3731]

Lol

[@Mikelovesmuseums]

Black nerd has a great video about this

[@luisquintero7359]

@@b.hemuth7363 ok Scooby I feel really bad. Batgirl can rot in hell.

[@JuJusCornerr]

It’s also came out that batgirl tested as well as Shazam 2 and black Adam.. so did it test well or bad????

[@jerry2968]

You would think they would have figured out this movie would suck when they read the script not when they have already sank $90 million into it.

[@thegreatbutterfly]

If _Batgirl_ was cancelled because it's bad, then Zaslav better give us an actual good Batgirl movie right quick.

[@dageekynerd2898]

It's kinda funny they're saying that it doesn't make sense to drop movies on streaming services while we have Prey on Hulu.

[@MRLONG758]

Isn't Prey 20th Century/Disney? What does that have to do with WB?

[@joellowe2215]

And prey is awesome

[@isaiahanderson1951]

Ive been saying it forever since BvS they need a plan im tired of them putting out shit to put out shit. They literally need to get rid of the garbage and just put out strong movies.

[@someguy4755]

I feel like this is a good step in the right direction but I am concerned at how they apporoach what is a good film and what is not cause it is all subjective and I don't want a film to be released or not released cause their taste is different to mine.

[@heroicgangster9981]

A good film to them is not animation that’s for sure

[@dew-me8yp]

Exactly… “unless we believe in it.” Who is we? WB Discovery execs? Feels a lot like what happened before, doesn’t it?

[@emilioalvarez5438]

Film is subjective, but if you the person that put money into it and made it, doesn’t like it, how do you expect others to? The problem before is they knew something was garbage and would still put it out to make a buck.

[@davidabanto8121]

It's pretty simple: Good film: coherent story, clever script not cheesy pandering dialogue, good acting, great Cgi

[@leandromafe]

Right. It's too early to tell if this new leadership are actually good curators that will keep morbius level shit away from us or if they're conceited dimwits who can't tell bad from different like the fox execs who prevented a deadpool movie from being made for so long.

[@enzmondo]

The executive who replaced Alan Horn, also named Alan, is a business graduate and not an arts graduate. He started working at Disney as a finance officer, going as high as executive VP and CFO of the company. At least Horn oversaw numerous film productions and even founded a bunch of production studios in his early years.

[@Dru2037]

I think John's faith in Horn is based off things that Feige did.

[@alexman378]

It’s not the fans crying about the cancelation, it’s the social media activists. The fans have been dreading this film for a while. My respect for Zaslav, his ax and his balls is growing with every announcement (only miss for me was cancelling Raised by Wolves, but I get it)

[@revealingtruth3329]

Zaslav doing great work

[@clockstomper]

Amy Pascal at Sony is the anti-Zaslav. "Well, I like Madame Web. Hurry and shit a movie out on this date."

[@clockstomper]

@dr rock Oh God

[@clockstomper]

@@majesticpublicenemy3201 Just taking John's word until I can see a movie he's produced. Amy for sure we know throws sandwiches at people and writes racist e-mails about Obama, not my idea of a winner but ymmv.

[@SithScorp]

Ironic that WB/DC is learning this lesson as Marvel/Disney/Kennedyfilm are falling into the trap.

[@meanwhiles432]

All I'm hearing is more superman.

[@XykonNoir]

John is so repetitive sometimes

[@adasga]

If it's shit, then why release it. Agree with the decision.

[@Arikarinful]

@@davidjames579 pretty sure theres some marketing people at WB who thought the same thing. It must mean that the movie was so bad that it actually would've been a huge detriment to brand/reputation

[@rodolfoleyva5157]

So from now on, all DC Movies will have to be 100% in RT, or they won't be released? 🤔

[@babytoshiro7014]

Seem that's part of Zaslav 10 year plan hahaha

[@josephweeks3786]

This quote will come back to bite him when a bad movie comes out from WB in general lol.

[@TheMa5cmpb]

My point exactly.

[@alansepicvideos9083]

It kinda feels weird because Fox and Orion didn't believe in Star Wars and The Terminator until they were huge success, and Marvel believed that Eternals being the best Marvel movie but then it released being considered as the worst reviewed Marvel movie.

[@renlysotherlover294]

Weirdly it really makes me want to see it now. The truth is it was all about the tax write off nothing else

[@ISleepAndIKnowThings]

Thank you Kris.

[@MikeT54]

As a huge dc fan it sucks for everyone that worked on the project yes, but sometimes when a company gets bought or merges people lose jobs, departments get condensed. Some of the movies that came out since BVS WB studios have been doing things to make things better for the executives to line their pocket, or for the executives making the director add villains because they want it. Something needed to change and hopefully this helps the quality of the movies going foward

[@phillyvoodoo]

But how does the higher ups not calling the directors to let them know that their movie has been cancelled leaving them to find out that fact from social media on their wedding day reflect on their leadership strategy????

[@samf.s.7731]

This, right here, is the thing everyone is saying. The fact that Kevin Feige (Someone from "The competition") congratulated Bilal Fallah on his marriage, while WB cancelled his movie without telling him, just speaks volumes about how business execs really don't care about the creative talent. It's unwise to do that. I'm not going to hold everyone to "Kevin Feige standards", this gentleman is perhaps the greatest procuder of all time tbh (And if he isn't already, I most certainly see that being the case sometime in the future). But, this is not a good way to treat the talent who worked for/with a company. It's not dignifying.

[@thatKONNORguy]

The leadership we want is one that's not making sub-par movies, the leadership we DON'T want is to take away a film that's 90% finished. It's unfair to the people that worked on it, and frankly it's unfair to the audience. The train had left the station so let the audience decide if they like it or not, & in the future stop the train before it get's going.

[@ntrprising]

Kind of hard to do that when the previous regime were the ones that greenlit the film and put it into production in the first place. Discovery didn't have the power to stop it before it went into production.

[@mrsam0496]

If its Morbious bad, it would be a dent on the Batman franchise or DC female heroes movies. Its a wise decision

[@seanjohal7]

I never believed in Wonder Woman 84 either as soon as I knew what the story seemed to be. So many better Wonder Woman stories to choose from. It is like they did their best to ensure it was disliked. Strange follow up.

[@andyhandy9977]

Feeling sad for Brendan Fraser ..he is villian in the movie .he is trying to make a comeback for yrs..this is his best comeback

[@vgold4286]

He’s getting in big to play in the fat suit movie coming up. He’ll be fine

[@vgold4286]

No, not “Big Mummy’s House”, the other one..

[@SecondTake123]

He has another movie coming out with good reviews. Warner Brothers Discovery said they want to work with all the talent again!

[@kendallandrews8691]

He will win an Oscar for his what's eating Gilberts grape remake

[@cherswigmaker]

Oh please. You’re being melodramatic. This wasn’t it for Fraser. He’s having his comeback through The Whale, which will be hitting the Festival circuit soon.

[@DChrls]

They didn't release it because they can't afford to put out *any more* bad DC movies.

[@garvinsimmons]

The Axe of Zaslav reigneth

[@MissStateFan]

Off topic, Warner Bros Discovery should build a theme park with multiple parks to rival Disney.

[@bunnyhoodmedia8385]

Some of the licensing for dc characters n looney tunes goes to six flags but I feel if wb discovery made a commitment to a theme park they will get it back.

[@bunnyhoodmedia8385]

Some of the licensing for dc characters n looney tunes goes to six flags but I feel if wb discovery made a commitment to a theme park they will get it back.

[@rodolfoleyva5157]

The suits almost didnt hire Al Pacino for The Godfather 😶

[@antoniobudelecan6077]

"We're not releasing a movie unless we believe in it." Does that mean that we should expect nothing but masterpieces now? Zaslav's statement will age terribly if they put out something bad soon.

[@therighthand2517]

It means you should expect more quality in general. If before 30% of their movies were shit. Maybe they want to reduce to 5%.

[@heroicgangster9981]

@@synical13 The internet calls stuff that is bad mid now.

[@heroicgangster9981]

@@b.hemuth7363 A movie doesn’t have to be a gem, but eh there is a problem with Disney Marvel and NOW Warner Bros not thinking animation is cool for the market now. Sony with Spider-Verse is right there and yet NOBODY wants to make a cool looking superhero animated movie for theaters.

[@TheMa5cmpb]

How come John doesn’t bring up HBO stock drop? If it was Netflix they would have multiple shows saying that Netflix is failing.

[@gilesburford1935]

John has strangley always made excuses for everything WB does. He was praising Hamada for years when he was calling shots, and is now praising Zaslav for canning all of Hamada's work.

[@TheMa5cmpb]

@@synical13 down 13%

[@SolidLiquidFox]

Agree that this is a bar rescue episode: SHUT IT DOWN!!! You need that leadership in order to make things better.

[@revealingtruth3329]

Correct

[@ZachBobBob]

Campea should've made a Kitchen Nightmares reference instead of a Bar Rescue reference since he cameo'd on it once

[@PopCultureNihilist]

Kris is SPITTING!!!

[@benm5970]

Given how all this time everyone has been saying “Who cares about this Batgirl movie?” I don’t think anyone really has any room to complain about this happening

[@richardmark9161]

All I’m interested in is the Michael Keaton stuff… Maybe the Brendan Fraser stuff.

[@game9848]

This is one of those episodes when "ITALIAN JOHN" takes over the show...

[@davidsummer8631]

I get point that Kriss is making that it shouldn't be left to suits to decided what we like or dont like, but at the moment we dont know what was wrong with the film

[@LuisMartinez_1095]

Nobody cared for a Batgirl movie anyway.

[@XykonNoir]

Reboot the entire DCEU

[@ZakaZ1996]

1. Test Audiences had the same score as It (2017) and Shazam 2, we know at least It (2017) turned out good (still waiting on Shazam 2, but if it ends up bad then why was ONLY Batgirl canceled then?) 2. A studios thoughts on a project could mean jack shit The first Star Wars movie was hated by 20th Century Fox and they had to bully theaters into showing it. We all know how Star Wars progressed after that. Tons of movies like Back to the Future, ET, Forrest Gump, The Exorcist, Home Alone, The Breakfast Club were all hated by the studios they came from before they were hits

[@sosa3308]

yes but you could say they hate those movies but were still willing to put it out and lose money and prestige, Batgirl on the other hand was straight shelved.

[@Andorski]

For every movie that turned out to be a commercial hit there are dozens that were just truly awful.

[@peterzupke9836]

Early screenings of Star Wars were called "a disaster." Toy Story was called a complete mess and almost shut-down by Disney. Leaving quality standards solely up to the executives, who are inherently biased towards safer bets, does not seem like something to celebrate.

[@emilioalvarez5438]

Those films changed the game for cinema so they were huge risks. The MCU has been around for 14yrs and comic book films longer. DC doesn’t need to change cinema or take enormous risks to be successful

[@djozzdraper]

I’m sure they did test screenings for this??

[@dresdenwarlock7978]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles first live action film in the 90's was called garbage by the man in charge "you really screwed that one up" and it's regarded as not just one of the best adaptations of all time, but the best Ninja Turtles film to this day. So. Yeah, I'm not buying their bs "it wasn't good enough" they don't know a thing.

[@emilioalvarez5438]

@@dresdenwarlock7978 audiences liked it but critics weren’t fond of that film. That was one person, I doubt it’s just David Z saying it’s not very good, hence why they do test screening

[@Dru2037]

The only thing that DC had to do was make movies following comic book archs and not Snyder's weird interpretations.

[@vincenzovieri3743]

Look at her costume. she looks ridiculous! she's dressed for a party. she's going to comic con. doc martens and a bubble jacket with a backwards hat with holes for her eyes to see. i'm sorry but her nose just doesn't look appealing and even worse in the mask. i don't mean to be mean but she looks awful in that suit. the suit also i trash. it doesn't look anything on marvel level. although shazaam is an ugly cheap suit too which is now telling me they can't find someone who knows how to make costumes. maybe hire the marvel people or hire the costume designer who made the superman movies costumes. i bet they hired the designer on craigs list.

[@MikeT54]

To be fair from what I read this is based on her first outing as batgirl so a home made costume sounds right

[@cflash2785]

The suit is based on the 2014 Batgirl of Burnside suit and is almost spot on accurate. It's not the best but it is pretty accurate to the comics. You toxic fans are killers or your own damn movies.

[@dub88acc]

The last iteration of Batgirl was Alicia Silverstone and that wasn't received properly...so if this was on the same pace I'm sure they dont want the same feedback.

[@alexman378]

That was also not done properly. Actually… nothing in that film was done properly.

[@SuperJumper40]

John's attitude that every movie is subjective disappeared pretty quickly. He also ignores THR's report that Batgirl's rating from the test screening was on the same level as "It" and "Shazam 2." So the film wasn't canceled (solely) because of that.

[@davidabanto8121]

It sucked , deal with it

[@SuperJumper40]

@@davidabanto8121 It was as bad as "It," which grossed $700 million?

[@tanmayaagrawal7350]

As much as i hate what happened with the wonderful directors involved and the whole crew of Batgirl, David Zaslav is showing some bold and confidence inducing decisions with DC which is unquestionably WB's biggest asset. Just his passion for Superman's future is amazing

[@roguevirgo902]

I kinda agree with the reel rejects take on this. I’ll believe this “10 year plan” when we see it, old dc said the same thing years ago and it went to shit

[@shatendraseethiah2217]

I understand. But, they could've at least let the filmmakers know before they announce it to the press

[@rorrt]

Now scrap The Flash or THIS decision was for show.. Plus even greater tax write offs.

[@thegrimhero]

i love how intense John gets in his speeches lmaooo

[@isaiahc2994]

7:18 -7:31 yes, the classic campea compassion. So Glorious 🙌🏾🤣🤣

[@nottom3309]

These are movies. Not Bethesda Games. You can't release them broken and hope modders make it better later.

[@scav76]

King Arthur had Excalibur, Zaslav has his AXE!.....which is much more effective!

[@brantkim]

I think the biggest comment from fans is "Why don't you make good movies?" DC and Marvel movies should be pretty easy to make. You already have decades of historical data on what characters are popular and why. Spending hundreds of millions of dollars to make movies of secondary and tertiary characters is asking for trouble. If Batgirl and Morbius were great characters then they would have had comics with hundreds of issues. For these characters don't make a movie but spend $20-50 million and make a mini-series to introduce them and see how the audiences react. Then if you have them in a movie as a second or tertiary character the audience will be more inclined to spend money to watch the movie.

[@ftwi1]

The thing is not every studio wants to stick to the already great comic stories. They want to change things. That’s where I think It can get slippery.

[@sheraldhill2728]

Marvel does it well. That’s how. Anyone who doesn’t respect what marvel has accomplished from a universe standpoint just doesn’t have a clue.

[@alexjones50]

making a good movie is extremely difficult, john has said that a few times on his show.

[@brantkim]

@@alexjones50 Making a passable film I think is very manageable as long as the writing is good. Most movie audiences when you have a good story are willing to accept mediocre acting, wonky CGI or poor editing. Honestly most of the bad films couldn't be saved be saved because the writing was crap from the start.

[@davidgaunt5018]

Makes me think, what if Thor L+T had been a WB release. Would it have passed the Zaslav test? Doubt it.

[@jyotirmaydash6020]

The first thing I thought after coming out of Love & Thunder is, "How come Kevin Feige approved this?"

[@b.u.l.1734]

I suspect that most of that movie's cast and crew were high on cocaine while they were making it.

[@alexman378]

Taika Waititi wouldn’t have passed the Zaslav test.

[@alexman378]

@@jyotirmaydash6020 My thinking is that Feige has stretched himself way too thin. He’s brilliant, highly competent, but he’s just one man at the end of the day. He has 24 hours like the rest of us, and needs to sleep, like the rest of us. He’s got all these movies and shows to keep an eye on and I think it’s part of the reason the quality has been diluted. He had his hands and eyes on everything before, now he possibly just doesn’t have the time to maintain the appropriate quality control on everything.

[@glenm2214]

@@michaelmorningstar8645 Everyone has the right to be wrong, congrats on exercising your right.

[@garasjesalg420]

As a chef I have to say I completely agree with the ribeye comment. We work for the customers and can't deliver a bad product. Everyone in the kitchen knows and understand this, so I think Zaslav is doing the right thing here. I also don't understand everyone feeling bad for the people who's worked on this film. I understand that it sucks to not get their movie released, but they have gotten paid for their work and if the product really is as bad as it seems, it's WB's responsability to hold it back and make sure the customers get a good experience, even if that means hurting some of their employees feelings.

[@revealingtruth3329]

That is 100 percent facts

[@BigBadMadDog.]

It's a heck of a gutsy decision and I fully support it.

[@HARDDEEPSIGNnIjjar]

All these normies crying over batgirl being canceled now knows how snyder fans feel. Ben Affleck had a plan to introduce batgirl in his fight against deathstroke and wb interfered. Nobody wants super girl and bat girl replacing superman and batman. Hell they even tried to replace Ben Affleck with Michael Keaton Batman for the future of the dceu. JK Simmons Jim gordon does not make sense with Michael Keaton Batman. The batgirl test screening did poorly and the cgi and vfx will make it cost more with additions to reshoots. Imagine replacing Ironman and Captain America with Iron Heart and Captain Peggy Carter after avengers 2012. We haven't even see a live action superman, batman vs darkseid yet or legion of doom. NOBODY ASKED FOR BATGIRL when there is not solo batman film in the dceu!

[@adamhayes2528]

Marvels latest phase has been second class to The Batman. Marvel is heading towards a direction of assembly line, soulless, cgi mess of a universe.

[@davidalexander-dhs-baltimo2708]

Joker, Nolan Batman trilogy, and the Batman have been superior comic book movies. All had original stories. Can WB do the same with Superman?

[@MiloMurphysLaw]

Well then I guess it’s the perfect time for DC to try to beat Marvel. Since everyone on the internet hates the MCU now. Or at least, they hate everything except for No Way Home. And when there’s another movie like that, they’ll love that one too.

[@davidalexander-dhs-baltimo2708]

Marvels issue is they killed of their big guns Iron Man and Captain America. The MCU version of Batman and Superman. Spider-Man is Sony. The Black Panther tragedy will hurt Marvel as well.

[@andyt1313]

I’d encourage you to do a little research on Zaslav. Shareholder value not quality seems to be his priority.

[@isaiahc2994]

My worry with this statement is that there won't be any risks taken with certain DC characters. Like I don't think this mindset on the marvel side would've green lit movies like GotG, Thor ragnorock, or ant-man. BUT it could also lead to excellent films with directors & writers reeally having perform at the top of their game. Regardless looking forward to justice league in 2073

[@ftwi1]

Do you think they would be domineering towards The Batman franchise? I hope not.

[@mrsam0496]

Can we get a Cyborg movie and a Green Latern reboot first??? Those are guaranteed Billion franchises.... Marvel is already making a Kamala Khan and Moon Knight

[@devonleaston4862]

Lol no they are not

[@kboi1170]

All of the test screenings were pointing to Batgirl being an absolute disaster. I see a lot of people saying the movie was finished, but no… it wasn’t. The director himself used the term “far from complete” on an Instagram post. This movie had $90 million spent on it, was probably going to have another $90 mill spent on it in post and reshoots, and another 50-100 million spent on it in advertising only for it to be a critical and commercial failure. Zaslav undoubtedly did the right thing by axing the project. This dude’s said several times that the old WB mistreated the DC brand and it deserves more respect than what old management use to give it, and for that sentiment alone I already have more faith in this guy than anyone that’s been in charge of WB for the past 10 years.

[@nghiango1655]

Why is Campea riding Zaslovs d so hard?

[@babytoshiro7014]

He just play the role. Soon he'll play the disappointed gf when Zaslav breaks every promise he said during Investor Day lol

[@oizzy7447]

He’s calling it how he sees it. Upset because John has a different opinion than you?

[@akunnaoyelade2978]

@@oizzy7447 you have to fight me to be JCs fluffer

[@TheGoon243]

@@babytoshiro7014 no, I think he’s just being honest.

[@Dru2037]

Zaslav and Horn are not Feige and John will someday realize that.

[@TFIta369]

I wouldn't mind them cutting this down into a 15-20 minute short film like fans put out on KZbin, so that we sort of get a glimpse of what could've happened and that they don't waste the best scenes. 🙂

[@rubioalvin]

bar rescue is one of my favorite shows , as well as Gordon Ramsay's shows. I enjoyed him yelling the hella the staff 😂

[@jbdeadangel]

Whoever still thinks tht batgirl wth tht halloween costume would have worked needs to go to check up wth a psychiatrist. DC fans deserves better n previous regime's woke politics has destroyed DC totally. Dunno if zaslav will be able to redeem it but hope for the best.

[@cflash2785]

The suit is ripped straight from the comics and in their defense is pretty accurate. Batgirl of Burnside. You all can never be pleased and the main reason DC movies fail. You all are your own worst enemies.

[@crhisduarte9382]

micheal keaton is sueing them

[@Blazecap]

Yet they believe in the flash? It must nothing sort of a masterpiece. Like it must really believe it’s that good if their putting up with Ezra Miller’s actions.

[@alexman378]

It’s definitely more expensive, and there’s probably contractual issues since it’s been in development for so long. Who knows though, Batgirl was supposed to be released this year, Flash is next year, they have some time to do the same there. My biggest curiosity is how they plan to market a film without the main lead.

[@Smee319]

the movie isn't being shelved because it wasn't good enough; Zaslav saw no money value in making a streaming movie.

[@heroicgangster9981]

Or any animation projects, those are getting budget cuts

[@heroicgangster9981]

@@miker.9138 His actions speak a lot, like cutting animation project budget and kids media in general

[@kymmzej9173]

The timing of the commercial was hilarious 8:06

[@Ketotio]

Let's just see how the "Brand" will do with all these changes. Time and projects will tell.

[@canady82]

I could debate dc last few movies n tv is way better then marvel phase 4

[@MovieMessiah]

Am I tripping because I could've sworn that Batgirl got changed to a theatrical release 🤔?? Like all the uproar and the cost of the movie made them change their minds about releasing it on streaming. I know it doesn't matter now but with them continuing to say straight to streaming throws me off a bit

[@TommFoolery]

I'm pretty sure it was old management that changed the film to a theatrical release. The current management at WB saw the film and canned it.

[@MovieMessiah]

@@TommFoolery yeah I understood the new management coming in and dropping the film. It's just the fact that John keeps reiterating that it was going straight to streaming and not going to live up to the 70-90 million dollar budget that has me looking confused. Cuz if it had a theater release then the film possibly could've made a profit. Again I know it doesn't matter now. Just don't like the way he's phrasing it

[@erichilarity2051]

Love that quote! making the studio accountable for crappy films is huge!

[@yoboyrob201]

I say, yea don’t put that shit in the theaters. Your just ripping people off. But, putting a movie on hbo max is slightly different. If I’m bored and don’t have nothing better to do. I won’t mind as much watching something like a morbius. I dont have to pay extra movie. So I won’t mind watching something not to great. I can find enjoyment in certain things

[@jakecleveland1051]

Bar Rescue actually fixed a bar in my town Tooele, Utah, it was really cool because my friend worked at that bar

[@ghostfacefrmscream]

Batgirl really didn't have any interest.

[@spencerfong1088]

Nother fantastic rant.. tell em john! they need a gordon ramsy type to helm and 86 all the bad projects beforeee they bleed money for the studio

[@basxs]

before there was "Bar Rescue" there was Gordan Ramsay's "Kitchen Nightmares" =D

[@Phantasm57]

that is not a Batsuit, looks more like biker leathers with a cape and cowl and that sure as hell doesnt look like Barbera Gordon. DC Should really draw from how ROCKSTEADY Designed batgirl from Arkham Knight or maybe call back to Yvonne Craig from the 66-67 Series . if a picture is worth 1000 words that picture of Batgirl from the now cancelled movie says everything about why it was cancelled

[@cflash2785]

The suit is based on the Batgirl of Burnside suit and pretty accurate. Agree not the best suit but it is an actual comic accurate suit. I wish people would stop criticizing and hating on these things without actually seeing the movie just because of bias. Just watch the movies. The creative departments know what they are doing and going for.

[@Andrea74T]

What if they just didn't want to spend money on marketing and advertising? What if this is a marketing ploy to get people upset that the movie is being canned? I haven't heard as much about a movie in recent years as this one. So, I guess I'm saying that I believe it could still be released, due to popular demand. Will be interesting to see how this unfolds! :)

[@mrsam0496]

DC was rejuvinated with The Jocker, SS2 though a box office failure was good, Peacemaker and The Batman. Those movies only resucitated DC. Having a terrible Morbious level movie would sink them again. Batgirl looked like a CW show to me. Solo movies like Cyborg, Green Latern, Superman 2 havent been made yet.... but DC thinks Batgirl is viable????

[@romulofigueroadiaz480]

They legally can’t release this and make money off of it after getting a tax write off from it

[@KristopherStoltz]

The problem I have is that Zaslav looked at Batgirl and decided not to spend the money or get the talent to fix it, implying he believes Batgirl the character is not worth a movie. That's what's insulting to us Batgirl fans.

[@heroicgangster9981]

Also animation fans. He does not spark hope for anyone who likes Batgirl, just axes those projects and not give any potential future to their name.

[@jcdx87]

Bruh they said the movie spent 90 million. More then they originally planned.

[@liferealgood]

I think leadership is a strong word for Zaslsv. He’s an absentee leader for the Flashpoint movie.

[@lawsonallen7741]

They can put it out on Dvd.

[@TheHulk2008]

I dont give a damn who David Zazlav is I heard they didn't inform the actors the movie was canned. That's just rude if that's true and disrespectful. I mean look at Battlefield Earth some idiot decided to release that peice of shit and the chances of Batgirl being worse than Battlefield Earth is pretty remote.

[@JezzaBondiBeach]

Glad they didn’t release a film they didn’t believe. Steering the DC property which is great 👍🏼

[@jackoneill1336]

Just give us our main hero's. Once you hit your 22nd movie then we can start doing legacy characters. Im sick of DC skipping great stories and adventures to catch up to marvel

[@thedduck]

Bruh, I didn't know that Rob & Chris are a married couple, I'm like wuut.. 😄

[@lynnahara]

Not to each other

[@diongreen3261]

i just hope they actually do better. superman has to leave the back burner

[@smalls4119]

Should have been The Flash instead

[@danielsilvajardim2638]

I stand with Kris

[@christopherbarham4402]

WB will never know the true gold mine they’re sitting on

[@ukmonk]

so right....I've worked in the movie industry for 30 years and fed up of the 'suits' who know nothing about making movies....

[@maliquematthews903]

Bruh when did zaslav care about THE DC BRAND when a movie he is gonna release has so much controversy and the main star is running a cult and messing with a 11 year old's life and wearing a bullet proff vest to hide from the cops 🤔🤦‍♂️

[@dafuqyalllookinat9731]

I just wish they stop fucking around like c'mon I need a Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood, Deathstroke, and Batman Beyond film. These characters have been around for years and still don't have a live action film.

[@Bayard1503]

If it was horrible then by all means slash it... screw it. Restart everything, recast everyone. They can keep Black Adam, Shazam because they were independent projects but I'd be alright if they even start over with Wonder Woman and Aquaman.