With Warner Bros. Discovery caught up a storm of complaints surrounding the canceled Coyote Vs. Acme movie, and the eradication of the Looney Tunes franchise from Max, it is only fitting that the ghost of another highly controversial scrapped project is coming back to haunt them. Newly unearthed fight footage from the Leslie Grace-led Batgirl
movie, has renewed questions about why WBD decided to completely abandon the project.
The footage, which features stunt performers Emely Cartagena, Scott Rogers, and Stephen Dunlevy, reveals one of the fight scenes that would have featured in the movie. As you would expect, there are some comments that have said it is probably best the movie was never released, but the vast majority disagree, and now just have even more reason to berate the studio over their decision.
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Batgirl was set to be released before the arrival of James Gunn and Peter Safran, and in the three years since its cancelation, you would expect that people would have started to forget it even existed. However, the film was set to bring Michael Keaton back as Batman – potentially predating his appearance in The Flash – featured the return of J.K. Simmons as the DCEU’s Commissioner Gordon, and would have given Brendan Frasier the chance to shine as the villain Firefly before he became an Oscar winner for his role in The Whale.
Now, this new footage has just made most fans even more certain that they have been robbed of a movie that would have at least stood up among some of the other DC offerings that were released – and bombed – towards the end of the old DCEU’s run.
‘Batgirl’ Was “Unreleasable,” But Not Everyone Agreed
Following the cancelation of the movie, many fans demanded an explanation from WBD, which led to several comments being made by studio insiders that the movie was “unreleasable” and would have been an embarrassment to the DC name – unlike the catastrophic release of The Flash, clearly.
However, Leslie Grace, who didn’t actually find out about the film being scrapped until the New York Post reported it, emphatically disagreed with that notion, claiming in turn that the cut of the film she saw was in fact “incredible”, if not yet fully edited and finished. She said at the time:
That’s the one thing I asked for. I got to see the film as far as it got to; the film wasn’t complete by the time that it was tested. There were a bunch of scenes that weren’t even in there. They were at the beginning of the editing process, and they were cut off because of everything going on at the company. But the film that I got to see — the scenes that were there — was incredible. There was definitely potential for a good film, in my opinion. Maybe we’ll get to see clips of it later on.
Will we see more of Batgirl? Will WBD somehow resurrect the project? Will we ever know what Brendan Fraser would have brought to the role of Firefly? Unlike the ’60s Batman series…we won’t be able to tune in next week and find out.
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