Brendan Fraser already has DC Comics credibility behind him as Cliff Steele / Robotman on the HBO Max show. patrol of fatebut he was also due to make his DC film debut in early August bad girl, where he played the arsonist Firefly. Unfortunately for him and everyone who worked on Barbara Gordon’s first solo film, Warner Bros. Discovery Canceled bad girl although it has already been shot and is in full post-production. This decision is still often debated and Fraser has now shared his thoughts bad girl never see the light of day.
In full promotion of his new film. The whalefor which he received much praise, at the Toronto International Film Festival, Brendan Fraser was consulted by Variety what did you feel bad girl to be discarded, and the actor’s statement on the matter, which includes congratulations to Leslie Grace, who was cast as the superhero’s lead, and noting that this film was specifically meant to be delivered directly to HBO Max subscribers. In his words:
it’s disappointing, the fans really wanted to see this movie made. I was there, Leslie Grace is a dynamo. She is like a powerful Q-tip, she just does it! She looks great with her dress. The film itself was shot and made for a smaller screen around this time that we came out between the streaming service and theatrical release. She ended up being the canary in the coal mine, so what can we learn from that? You work with trusted directors like Darren [Aronofsky].
While Darren Aronofsky directed Brendan Fraser in The whale, bad girl saw the actor work with Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who previously directed 2020s bad guys for life. Clearly, Fraser has a very good opinion of the work that has been done to do bad girl together, especially Leslie Grace’s performance, and he’s certainly not the only one disappointed that he doesn’t go out together anymore. I would like to be among the elected people who have been invited to the bad girl “funeral projections” to see footage recorded before it was sealed more tightly than the entrance to the Batcave. More importantly, he sees Fraser bad girlThe cancellation of a potential warning about how studios could handle other direct-to-video films in the future.
bad girl The scrapping stemmed from a new mandate from Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav’s discovery that DC films are “big theatrical event films”. Despite bad girlThe budget was reportedly increased to $ 90 million, the studio was unwilling to pour more money into the project to make it more theatrical, as it did last December with blue beetle. Therefore, bad girl was canceled as a tax break, and Leslie Grace, Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, and the rest of the cast and crew didn’t find out their film had been shelved until audiences knew. Last week, Warner Bros. chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels said so bad girl The decision was hyped up in the media, and before releasing his main statement to Variety, Brendan Fraser joked that they shouldn’t have talked about it. bad girl for what Wiedenfels had said.
Sadly, we will never see Brendan Fraser set fire to Gotham City as Firefly, but you can see his performance in The whale when it opens on December 9th. Fraser will also star in the 2023 films Moon Flower Killers Yes siblings.
Source: Cinemablend
