Batgirl scrapped

[BusSport]

The DC trainwreck (see also The Flash) continues:

The Hollywood Reporter: "Batgirl Scrapped at Warner Bros."

The Wrap: "Batgirl Won't Fly: Warner Bros. Discovery Has No Plans to Release Nearly Finished $90 Million Film"

Warner Bros. Discovery will not release Batgirl, either theatrically or on HBO MAX, TheWrap has learned. The $90 million project is effectively dead.

 

[Red_Chaos]

how the heck can you not finish it if it cost $90 mill????

 

[calsnowskier]

Wow.

Just wow.

This makes me actually want to see it. How bad must it be for them to light a cigar with a $90M bill?

 

[rmilia1]

Wow.

Just wow.

This makes me actually want to see it. How bad must it be for them to light a cigar with a $90M bill?

Apparently the new head honcho at WBD shelved a bunch of shit. He wants to move away from the old regimes focus of releasing on HBO Max but he also doesn't want to spend the extra money if cost for a full theatrical release

So instead he's basically taking tax write downs on all the projects that started under the old regime but finished under his

Sounds kind of like a salty bitch move if I'm being honest

 

[Superbelt]

But they're still gonna put a bow on the The Flash turd.

 

[wildturkey]

Wow.

Just wow.

This makes me actually want to see it. How bad must it be for them to light a cigar with a $90M bill?

Exactly. Didn't even know this was a thing. Now I want to see it.

 

[Duffman]

 

[DarthVedder]

 

[BusSport]

Spoke to people that saw #Batgirl and they said it was a huge disappointment. Also that the costumes looked cheap especially Keaton’s Batman costume. I figured WB would dump it on HBO Max but looks like we will never see it.

 

[BusSport]

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

 

[MilkSpiller22]

as long as Batman- Caped Crusader is still coming out ill be happy...

 

[Duffman]

Apparently even though it cost $90 million to make, WB will get more money back if they use it as a tax write off than they’d get in revenue if they released it outright.

And here we see one of the major problems with releasing projects only for a streaming service, where you can scrap a project and bring in more money.

 

[BusSport]

WB botched this whole thing from the beginning. Back in January 2022, WB released the first promo image for this film:

Unsurprisingly, the costume was derided and mocked across the Internet as looking like cheap cosplay you could buy off eBay or a costume store for ten dollars that looked more like it belonged in Adam West Batman than in the gritty, realistic look of the DCEU. It's a real problem when this suit looks cheaper than the Arrowverse/CW TV version of the suit!

The director Bilall Fallah responded on Instagram that things weren't what they seemed and to wait for the movie.

Well, now, according to a viewer who saw the recent screening, the costume that was shown actually IS cosplay in the movie: apparently, in the movie, Barbara Gordon wears it to a Halloween party before actually becoming Batgirl, and she switches into a "real," better suit later in the movie after actually becoming Batgirl.

Okay, let's say that's true. Then, as the marketing team for this movie, why would you release the Halloween suit before the actual suit and needlessly drum up bad publicity that the film is cheap? Especially when you should already know poor production values from low budget is something the audience is concerned about since the film is planned for release on HBO Max rather than theaters?

WB completely dropped the ball on this from the beginning. Either they completely screwed up production with a terrible cheap suit, or they completely screwed up marketing by releasing the Halloween suit instead of the actual suit.

 

[FaCe-LeE-uS]

DC still taking L's... This time they didn't even have to wait until after a new release

 

[True Lakers Fan]

The DC trainwreck (see also The Flash) continues:

The Hollywood Reporter: "Batgirl Scrapped at Warner Bros."

The Wrap: "Batgirl Won't Fly: Warner Bros. Discovery Has No Plans to Release Nearly Finished $90 Million Film"

I remember watching the original back when I was 11 years old and loved to see Barbara Gordan because she really had a beautiful ass

 

[R.J. MacReady]

And here we see one of the major problems with releasing projects only for a streaming service, where you can scrap a project and bring in more money.

From the time the TV was invented ...there has never been a time were consumers have been given so much content and paid so little for it.
What HBO max gives you alone for just 15 bucks a month is staggering

Right now is nothing short of content Nirvana ....and with no commercials. And it probably won't last. It's just too good.

So in short, I have no idea what you are talking about.

 

[Superbelt]

Not just Batgirl, but Discovery is taking a chainsaw to large swaths of HBO MAX's existing and coming portfolio of scripted content. Thye want to focus on reality horseshit.

I don't know why they wanted to buy it if they didn't want what HBO does.

 

[calsnowskier]

Not just Batgirl, but Discovery is taking a chainsaw to large swaths of HBO MAX's existing and coming portfolio of scripted content. Thye want to focus on reality horseshit.

I don't know why they wanted to buy it if they didn't want what HBO does.

Infrastructure?

 

[Superbelt]

Infrastructure?

They need lots of infrastructure so they can film Huckleberry hunt for the Jersey Devil in the woods of West Virginia for Mountain Monsters.

 

[The Q]

Not just Batgirl, but Discovery is taking a chainsaw to large swaths of HBO MAX's existing and coming portfolio of scripted content. Thye want to focus on reality horseshit.

I don't know why they wanted to buy it if they didn't want what HBO does.

Especially when that is going so poorly for Netflix