During a presentation on the Warner Bros. ground this week, DC Studios co-CEOs James Gunn and Peter Safran outlined the future of upcoming dc movies revealing the title of the new Superman movie Gunn is writing, posting news about a new movie about batman and robin and unleashing a new team of superheroes in The Authority. However, Gunn and Safran weren’t allowed to focus only on the future during the performance. Answering questions from the assembled reporters, the duo clarified What really happened to Henry Cavill? at the end of his tenure as Superman, and explained why Leslie Grace’s Batgirl movie was shelved.
The DC Studios reshuffle began before James Gunn and Peter Safran took over, and one of the first big shoes to drop was the cancellation of bad girl movie that co-directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah were about to go into post-production. No main reason for the cancellation was given, although there were rumors that the finished footage had issues. However, during DC’s recent presentation, Safran doubled down on his opinion that Batgirl was evil, telling her so indiewire :
I watched the movie. There were a lot of incredibly talented people in front of and behind the camera in this film. But this movie didn’t come out. Sometimes happens. This movie has not been released. …Actually, I think [David] Zaslav and the team made a very bold and courageous decision to cancel it, because it would hurt DC, it would hurt everyone involved. I think they really supported DC, the characters, the story, the quality and everything.
Well, that makes us all the more curious as to what might have gone wrong during production. Didn’t the studio know what Bilall and Adil were doing in the film? No one at the management level monitored the progress of bad girl? Former DC President Walter Hamada presumably almost stopped about how the film was unceremoniously shelved. But Safran stressed that it wasn’t about “talent,” adding:
It would not have been able to compete in the cinema market. It was designed for the small screen. I think it wasn’t an easy decision, but they made the right choice to file it.
That begs an easy question: Why not just launch it on HBO Max? It was the solution for snyder’s cut Justice League , which almost everyone will tell you was superior to the stage version which had Joss Whedon’s fingerprints all over it. I mean look this trailer and tell me a DC movie still can’t be compelling on the small screen:
sorry for me, bad girl it wasn’t supposed to be. And now it seems that Barbara Gordon may appear in the new The brave and the brave, which Safran and Gunn say will focus more on live-action members of the Bat family, starting with Damian Wayne. Big things are afoot in Washington. Let’s see how everything goes.
Source: Cinemablend
