Warner Bro's spent $90mm on Batgirl and they are throwing it in a dumpster.
Trying to imagine how incredibly bad a movie must be to not even attempt to recoup anything from it.
Link: https://variety.com/2022/film/news/batgirl-movie-why-not-releasing-warner-bros-1235332062/
Replies to: Warner Bro's spent $90mm on Batgirl and they are throwing it in a dumpster.
They key for a movie like this to succeed is that Batgirl's alter ego has to be a stripper and she's
stopping crime in a strip club
The thee, the thee, the thee…that’s all folks!
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The D.C.E.U. is in a fragile place right now.
They've seen with Top Gun that the market is there for big theatrical releases, and that's the vision with the new leadership, who is reversing course on the streaming strategy. They've recommitted to Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck, and both are getting another feature film (solo). They're pressing forward with Flash, in spite of Ezra Miller's bad publicity, because it's going to do crazy well in theatres (especially with the Multiverse Michael Keaton).
Batgirl did really, really poorly with test audiences. There's certainly an argument to try to recoup the costs by dropping it to HBO Max, but there is north of a billion on the line with the vision of this revamped D.C.E.U., and they'd rather shelve the $90MM as a potential tax write-off than potentially cheapen the universe they're trying to grow.
Why on earth don’t they hire the TV series Flash to replace Miller?
…the answer, I believe, is that they want to replace a trans with a trans because of political pressure……I had heard that they were considering the girl now guy after surgery that was in Umbrella Academy.
They shattered the bat.
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