Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have revealed that they no longer have access to the canceled film’s footage.
Earlier this month, Warner Bros Discover decided not to release Batgirl theatrically or on HBO Max. The company’s official position was that it was not a film that they believed in and opted to just write off the film’s budget on its taxes. This came in spite of the fact that the film had, at this point, cost $90M to make and had reportedly tested as well as Black Adam.
The depressing and embarrassing hits at Warner Bros Discovery and HBO Max just keep rolling in. While Matt Reeves’ The Batman universe seems safe for the moment the same cannot be said for several other projects at the company for the streaming service. More recently, the company opted to remove over 36 titles from HBO Max and cancel many others for similar reasons. Now it appears that Batgirl‘s directors can no longer access the film’s footage.
In a recent interview with SKRIPT the directors revealed that Warner Bros had blocked their access to Batgirl‘s footage. As Bilall Fallah tells it, Adil El Arbi called him about the footage and then discovered that everything had been removed everything:
“Adil called and told me, ‘Go ahead. Shoot everything on your mobile.’ I went on the server … Everything was gone.”
El Arbi then expressed his frustration because the server had all the Batman scenes in them:
“We were like, ‘Fucking shit!’ All the scenes with Batman in them!”
You can see the full interview below:
The Batgirl film was set to star In the Heights’ Leslie Grace. Batgirl was last seen on the big screen in live-action portrayed by Alicia Silverstone in Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin in 1997. The film followed the Barbara Gordon iteration of the Gotham City heroine. J.K. Simmons was also in the film as Commissioner Gordon, Brendan Fraser as the villain Firefly, and Michael Keaton returned to play his version of Batman.
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