Warner Bros. axed the superhero film in August.
BatgirlstarLeslie Graceshared behind-the-scenes footage from her shelved DC film.
“I couldn’t resist,” Grace captioned the video.
Leslie Grace as Batgirl.Leslie Grace/Instagram
During a second quarter earnings call announcing HBO Max’s merger with Discovery+ that month, Warner Bros.
Discovery CEODavid Zaslav insinuated the cancellationhad to do with quality when asked about the abrupt shelving.
“We’re not going to launch a movie until it’s ready,” Zaslav said.
He said other DC superhero properties, includingBlack Adam,Shazam!
“We have nothing,” Fallah told French outlet SKRIPT.
“Adil called me and said, ‘Go ahead shoot some things on your cellphone.’
I went on the server and everything was blocked.”
El Arbi added, “We were like ‘f—ing s—!
All the scenes with Batman in them!
S—!”
“They told us it was a strategic change.
There was new management, and they wanted to save some money.”
The directors also said they were touched by public reaction to the film’s cancellation.
El Arbi said of the trending #ReleaseBatgirl hashtag.
“After all we make movies for the audience, not for us.
We just hope that one day the movie will be released, for the cast and crew.
We are a small family.”
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