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The directors of the canceled Batgirl movie watched The Flash (2023) with a bitter taste in their mouths, not because of Andy Muschietti’s film itself, but because of everything they’ve been through lately.
Speaking to Insider, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah said they were sad because the movie “The Scarlet Speedster” made them feel like it was almost a universe that they belonged to.
The two are still very frustrated that they never got the chance to show the world the DC movie they made.
“We watched and were sad. We love director Andy Muschietti and his sister Barbara, who produced the film. But when we saw it, we felt like we could have been part of it,” he said Adil.
“We didn’t have a chance to show Batgirl to the world and let the audience judge for themselves. Because the audience is really our final opponent and has to decide whether something is good or bad, or whether something should be seen or not,” the director added.
Batgirl it would have Adil El Arbi It is Billall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life) as directors, while Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey) was the writer of the final version of the script.
Leslie Grace (In a New York Neighborhood), Michael Keaton (Birdman), JK Simmons (SpiderMan), Brendan Fraser (The Mummy) and Jacob Scipio (Bad Boys Forever) have been confirmed in the main cast.
The cancellation of Batgirl was achieved in such a way that the Warner Bros. Discovery Save taxes.
In a presentation to the press, DC Studios coCEO Peter Safran justified the cancellation by saying that the film “would hurt” The ADVERTISEMENT if it were published.
“Batgirl is a character who will inevitably enter our story. I saw the film and think there are a lot of talented people in front of and behind the camera. But sometimes it happens. In fact, I think they were brave in canceling the movie because the movie would have hurt DC’s image. It would have harmed the people involved,” he said Saffron.
Read more about The Flash:
Worlds collide when Barry Allen uses his superpowers to travel through time and change the events of the past. But when his attempt to save his family changes the future, the hero finds himself trapped in a reality where General Zod has returned, causing destruction and there are no superheroes to protect the world.
Barry must recruit a completely different Batman who is retired and rescue a captured Kryptonian… The only hope is to run to survive. Will the hero’s sacrifice be enough to restart this universe?
The Lightning was led by Andy Muschetti (ES: The Thing), while Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey, Bumblebee) signed the final version of the script.
Ezra Miller as Barry Allen/Flash, Michael Keaton like Bruce Wayne/Batman, Kiersey Clemons like Iris West, Sasha Calle as Kara ZorEl/Supergirl, Maribel Verdu like Nora West, Ron Livingston as Henry West and Ben Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman are in the main cast.