"Batgirl" movie canceled by WB (Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed)

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...no black top to the mask, no black shoulder fastening pads...
I don't see how you can say that. The cowl looks black to me, and the shadows on her shoulders and angle of the photo make determining colour there impossible. The gloves are the only major departure.
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It looks blue to me on a regular view though if you zoom in (which I hadn't) it is a darker blue (I took it as the same colour as the body) but I accept you can't see the shoulders clearly. But that gets negated by the yellow belt which I didn't mention which isn't there, 😂.
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Crank up your monitors.
The cape attach is black.
The cowl has a blue-tinted faux-carbon-fiber pattern to it.

The jacket looks like a 60s bucket seat, not a motorcycle jacket.
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Crank up your monitors.
The cape attach is black.
The cowl has a blue-tinted faux-carbon-fiber pattern to it.

The jacket looks like a 60s bucket seat, not a motorcycle jacket.
Monitor! Luxury! I'm on my phone so it's an inch high for me
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It looks blue to me on a regular view though if you zoom in (which I hadn't) it is a darker blue (I took it as the same colour as the body) but I accept you can't see the shoulders clearly. But that gets negated by the yellow belt which I didn't mention which isn't there, 😂.
And the stitching pattern is completely different. It's like they were trying to drive fans crazy! :see_stars:
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At least she has the yellow Doc boots!!! Wonder if she has the matching panties & Bra too...if not, so amateur!!
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At least she has the yellow Doc boots!!! Wonder if she has the matching panties & Bra too...if not, so amateur!!
BUT amateurs do it for the LOVE my dear (same root as amore in the French ) not for squalid payment of funds. Look at the wonderful amateur cosplay costumes that fans come up with and then look at the shit Wondie costume some paid costume designer came up with for Palicki.
It's the old adage amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic. :laugh:
You being a gifted amateur cosplayer you probably have your own home made dildo in your Batgirl utility belt :giggle:
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tallyho wrote:
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batgirl1969 wrote:
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At least she has the yellow Doc boots!!! Wonder if she has the matching panties & Bra too...if not, so amateur!!
BUT amateurs do it for the LOVE my dear (same root as amore in the French ) not for squalid payment of funds. Look at the wonderful amateur cosplay costumes that fans come up with and then look at the shit Wondie costume some paid costume designer came up with for Palicki.
It's the old adage amateurs built the Ark, professionals built the Titanic. :laugh:
You being a gifted amateur cosplayer you probably have your own home made dildo in your Batgirl utility belt :giggle:
Come on now....it is a Strap-on NOT a dildo...now that you mention my utility belt is full of some odd crime fighting equipment, lube, plugs, beads, ballgags, some rope not to forget, handcuffs
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batgirl1969 wrote:
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At least she has the yellow Doc boots!!!
At least the boots are hideous too. I'd hate to feel conflicted about this. Seriously, what's with Doc Martens these days? Appear to be worn by hipster corbynites. Worse than converse and crocs.
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The costume COULD have potential when done right like this statue and a mash up of the statue with her face...NOW this would work with her on the pattern cutter or cat whiskers!!
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batgirl1969 wrote:
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The costume COULD have potential when done right like this statue and a mash up of the statue with her face...NOW this would work with her on the pattern cutter or cat whiskers!!
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The statue does look much better--tighter top and skintight pants. The neckline just looks off in both the TV outfit and the statue. It's something about the thick turtleneck look to it. But as stated before, it's a matter of tastes. I guess mine are locked into the 80s and 90s version of Batgirl.
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Here's the meme co-director Adil El-Arbi posted in response to the love/hate over the costume that's been making the rounds online over the past couple days.

Now, admittedly, El Arbi and Fallah are raw, street-level guys and I wouldn't exactly expect them to be polite, but it also doesn't make a whole lot of sense to tell potential customers to "shut the fuck up". But that's just the debased level of discourse nowadays amongst the Twitterati.

As for "wait for the film" - yeah, sure, I'll wait with bated breath for a film written by Christina Hodson, who was responsible for the debacle that was Birds of Prey.... :hq:
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Bad thing is Cosplay looks 10x better so even his meme sucks!!!
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I doubt the people saying it looks like cosplay have actually seen good cosplay.
Hollywood should aspire to make their superhero costumes look like good cosplay.

I'll see or not see Batgirl based on the trailer and well-written critiques. The costume has little bearing on my viewing decision. If I refused to watch mainstream superhero productions with bad costume decisions, I'd miss out on a lot of entertaining superhero productions.
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I doubt the people saying it looks like cosplay have actually seen good cosplay.
Hollywood should aspire to make their superhero costumes look like good cosplay.

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Indeed.
Many use "...looks like cosplay" and mean that as an insult. Maybe they think that most cosplayers buy their costumes at Walmart or so :laugh:
I follow quite many cosplayers on Insta and they are doing really great in making costumes.
Often they make costumes that are better than the ones then professional costume designers come up with.
Often they are into it with real passion and make great versions of costumes from comic heroines.
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The costume look horrible, the material and the utility belt are bad.

If there are going classic(Yvonne Craig) batgirl, Christina Carter's films have a better look

or go the All black armoured look of the terrible Alicia Silverstone
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Apparently, Warner Bros is now discussing the idea of injecting more money into this movie, making it a mid-budget film, so
that it can play in theaters as well as streaming. It would come out in continuity after The Flash. They were inspired by how
well "The Batman" did recently in the movie houses. The $70 million Batgirl film just finished shooting.

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or go the All black armoured look of the terrible Alicia Silverstone
What? You mean terrible in the sense that dinosaurs are "terrible lizards"? Meaning "fucking awesome". Silverstone was fantastic. Zip me up uncle Alfred? Yes please.
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^ I think Silverstone wasn't/isn't a really good actress and was seemingly quite a diva on the set of that movie.
BUT she looked nice and that suit is SO awesome (except the missing attached cowl) in my opinion that I love every second of her on-screen. And the scenes with Dina Meyer in BoP with a slightly modified version of that were even better (with also the better actress in it)...for my taste.
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Well, I'm not as hyped as I should be with a Batgirl movie coming up... but still very thrilled about it.
Can't wait to see a trailer to that one.
I hope Warner will make enough money out of it to realize a sequel and/or a Batgirl TV show.
If there would be a Batgirl TV show with the Batgirl costume from "Batman and Robin" or BoP with a cowl..... I would most likely get too excited and some bad things would happen to the production to stop it.
Like aliens killing all the actors as they attack the set with blimps steered by gigantic hamster creatures....
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Maskripper wrote:
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Imagineer wrote:
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I doubt the people saying it looks like cosplay have actually seen good cosplay.
Hollywood should aspire to make their superhero costumes look like good cosplay.

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Indeed.
Many use "...looks like cosplay" and mean that as an insult. Maybe they think that most cosplayers buy their costumes at Walmart or so :laugh:
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Often they are into it with real passion and make great versions of costumes from comic heroines.
(passion + skill + close to the original costume from the comics = great costumes)
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Aaaaaaand it's gone.

Apparently it was so bad WB were willing to write off its $70m budget and call it a day.

Begs the question if they have any idea whatsoever what they are doing. Have to think that they'd have been able to get something out of it just for Keaton's return as Batman.

From the article I read the vibe is they're trying to unfuck the DCEU but seems like that dog has sailed. If even the MCU is (theoretically at least, it still makes money hand over fist) struggling creatively maybe starting again from scratch, or with yet another Battfleck effort, isn't the way to do this.
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Pretty weak. But it's their money and their loss.
Seems like one of the problems for the DC characters is many of them have sex appeal and that's something a fair amount of the comic book movie industry wants to avoid incorporating into their superheroines.

Perhaps part of the problem is the fine line between the sexy nature of superheroines in comics and the desire to create realistic superheroines. There is clearly an absurdity to the Lynda Carter Wonder Woman wearing the sexy short-shorts as her uniform to fight villains, yet that outfit is much more appealing to me than the armored-style of outfit being used by Gal Gadot. I prefer the George Perez Wonder Woman to the modern versions of her in the comics. My assumption--based on just what I've seen and read--is that the industry wants to move towards the grittier and more realistic style of superheroines, which means the Batgirl of the 80s and 90s (and the old TV show) will not be the Batgirl used. And as the plot will no doubt be fairly simplistic and predictable with an unattractive but practical outfit, I have no incentive to spend the money and time to watch it.
Conversely, I absolutely watched the Helen Slater Supergirl movie because the outfit was what I grew up with and looked damn good on Helen. The plot, on the other hand, was trite and predictable and dull.
Now if somehow an attractive Batgirl costume along with a good plot could be made...well, I think that's just idle day-dreaming on my part.
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I read it reached $90 million with reshoots. No mention on why it was still unusable, but with a decent cast, directors, costumes, and special effects it seems WB didn't invest in a decent script again.
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The problem is, the original Batgirl was forged in 1960s. She was eye candy to extend the life of a show that had lost its novelty. The rampant misogyny of the of the time meant they could dress her up as cocktease and tie her up in fetish situations, and as long as long as they were willing simply ignore the sexual part as if it didn’t exist, it was fine.

Hell, “I dream of Jeannie” had a super hot blonde that lived to serve her master’s every whim in a crop top and harem pants. You just can’t make Television like that any more. If you put any fetishy subtext in a TV show, it has to have an empowered heroine and everything has to be consensual. No more kidnapping Miss Iceland and lowering her body temperature down so you can fuck her…

Of coarse, back then, porn really sucked. Things change. The pendulum may swing back towards campy fun-BDSM plot lines. Personally, I would rather watch more O-girl & Nylonika than Stargirl. I am much more certain of getting the type payout I want from Nylonika getting kidnapped than any chick on the CW.
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Apparently it was so bad WB were willing to write off its $70m budget and call it a day.
Where did you read that?

I only read WB wants to double down on big blockbuster releases. Batgirl was always intended for HBO+ - which is no longer their focus on DC properties

After Top Gun Maverick and the more recent Spiderman film: a lot of film executives are probably drooling to make a billion dollar box office. They probably didnt want to waste resources on something they lost focus on

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Read more reports and it indeed looks like the film might be a disaster
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Not sure it’s fair to call it misogyny to have an attractive woman put in a sexy outfit and placed in precarious situations. That’s just selling sex appeal. Now paying the actress less for an equal role in the show would be misogyny. But using that same standard, having James Bond wearing tuxes and consistently captured by the villain in every Bond movie seems like a parallel to having Barbara Gordon wearing a Batgirl costume and consistently being captured by the villain.
And it’s not like Batman and Robin weren’t wearing fairy tight costumes too, and last I checked they were also captured and put in some damn weird predicaments as well.
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Shades of Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman from a decade ago.

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Shades of Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman from a decade ago.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/new ... der-woman/
I managed to track that one down. It was Catwoman bad. But then it was a pilot, so it was always a gamble. With a movie even if it's bad you're not throwing anything else after it, you've already lost.

Notable highlight with that Wonder Woman was I seem to recall her killing a security guard by chucking a pipe at him that pinned him to a wall through the chest (shades of Arnie in Commando, although without the steam coming through the guys chest). Was like something out of The Boys except done for like $5 and a family friendly audience.

Also I think they spent a lot of money on Liz Hurley and that woman cannot, could never, act for beans.


For this Batgirl thing though, I don't get it. I've seen Suicide Squad, the idea that DC have a minimum bar of quality a movie has to clear doesn't sound remotely plausible. If anything it's DC's decent movies that don't do well, like The Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey.
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DC should just try an animated Batgirl first. Their animations tend to do better except their recent art style and the latest Green Lantern was pretty mediocre.
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DC should just try an animated Batgirl first. Their animations tend to do better except their recent art style and the latest Green Lantern was pretty mediocre.
I like this idea. And perhaps go with the darker style of Batgirl animation movie instead of something light and campy.
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Shades of Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman from a decade ago.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/new ... der-woman/
I managed to track that one down. It was Catwoman bad. But then it was a pilot, so it was always a gamble. With a movie even if it's bad you're not throwing anything else after it, you've already lost.

Notable highlight with that Wonder Woman was I seem to recall her killing a security guard by chucking a pipe at him that pinned him to a wall through the chest (shades of Arnie in Commando, although without the steam coming through the guys chest). Was like something out of The Boys except done for like $5 and a family friendly audience.

Also I think they spent a lot of money on Liz Hurley and that woman cannot, could never, act for beans.


For this Batgirl thing though, I don't get it. I've seen Suicide Squad, the idea that DC have a minimum bar of quality a movie has to clear doesn't sound remotely plausible. If anything it's DC's decent movies that don't do well, like The Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey.
One of the problems with the Wonder Woman TV pilot with Palicki was that WW had the morals of a mob boss. She was also heavy into being a CEO of a fashion company or something and was always briskly walking through hallways giving orders. Palicki looked fine but the writers' room either knew nothing about the character from either the comic or the past TV show or thought that throwing all moral underpinning into the trash was a ground-breaking concept.
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The problem with the WW TV show started much earlier when they chose the creator of Ally frickin' McBeal as show runner. Palicki looked great, definitley, which was such a shame...
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All that for nothing. They could have made 180 high budget superhero themed pornos for that price
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Not sure it’s fair to call it misogyny to have an attractive woman put in a sexy outfit and placed in precarious situations. That’s just selling sex appeal. Now paying the actress less for an equal role in the show would be misogyny. But using that same standard, having James Bond wearing tuxes and consistently captured by the villain in every Bond movie seems like a parallel to having Barbara Gordon wearing a Batgirl costume and consistently being captured by the villain.
And it’s not like Batman and Robin weren’t wearing fairy tight costumes too, and last I checked they were also captured and put in some damn weird predicaments as well.
In the first episode, Penguin kidnaps her for a shotgun wedding to control her Daddy, not particularly progressive, even by standards of the day… And it is more of an observation than an objection. Diana Rigg talked about the Avengers and there was no mincing of words, the sexy outfits and her periodic bondage was absolutely part of the formula.

Batgirl and all the molls were there to engage adolescent male viewers (and their dads). A show in those days could not sustain itself entirely on the homoerotic subtext alone. Star Trek was a western with minidresses. Charlie’s Angel was jiggle TV. While female characters were getting getting progressively more to do, they had to be hot.

It’s a shame the fourth season never happened. It would have been great to see Batgirl running parallel investigations with Batman. I couldn’t see her giving up her autonomy to fill Robin’s roll, even if she started getting Robin sized numbers of Bat-traps.

The shame is, her character is so tied to the 1960s. Despite being a grown woman, she is called BatGIRL. Her character’s motivation is basically Batman Fan Service. The pilot they did for her character is absolutely cringe worthy. On the actual show she was a great character, but she used her feminity to manipulate her father and Batman, they were patronizing and dismissive of both Barbara and Batgirl. It worked great in the structure of the show, but I doubt it would fare well in 2022.

A Batgirl show or movie would probably work best if they simply decided to riff on the 1960s sensibilities with a Barbara/ Batgirl who was stuck trying navigate that world as a crime fighter. I see her as a woman who became a librarian because women couldn’t become cops. And nice girls weren’t danger junkies that would fight a room full of goons. She get’s a high from it. She is not some brooding righter of wrongs. She is doing what she loves in Gotham that expects different things from a proper girl.
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DrDominator9 wrote:
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Shades of Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman from a decade ago.

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/new ... der-woman/
I managed to track that one down. It was Catwoman bad. But then it was a pilot, so it was always a gamble. With a movie even if it's bad you're not throwing anything else after it, you've already lost.

Notable highlight with that Wonder Woman was I seem to recall her killing a security guard by chucking a pipe at him that pinned him to a wall through the chest (shades of Arnie in Commando, although without the steam coming through the guys chest). Was like something out of The Boys except done for like $5 and a family friendly audience.

Also I think they spent a lot of money on Liz Hurley and that woman cannot, could never, act for beans.


For this Batgirl thing though, I don't get it. I've seen Suicide Squad, the idea that DC have a minimum bar of quality a movie has to clear doesn't sound remotely plausible. If anything it's DC's decent movies that don't do well, like The Suicide Squad and Birds of Prey.
One of the problems with the Wonder Woman TV pilot with Palicki was that WW had the morals of a mob boss. She was also heavy into being a CEO of a fashion company or something and was always briskly walking through hallways giving orders. Palicki looked fine but the writers' room either knew nothing about the character from either the comic or the past TV show or thought that throwing all moral underpinning into the trash was a ground-breaking concept.
The Palicki WW failed because they took the femininity out of the character. LC could look good, but did not strut around like she owned the place, despite being WW. Gal Godot plays it much more true to the original (would be better with more of the BDSM). Nobody roots for a bitch. Just MHO.
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I cynically think this is a hype ploy like a "release the snyder cut" thing being engineered

will wait to see if a release batgirl cult starts hopping around on twitter looking for attention
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Not sure it’s fair to call it misogyny to have an attractive woman put in a sexy outfit and placed in precarious situations. That’s just selling sex appeal. Now paying the actress less for an equal role in the show would be misogyny. But using that same standard, having James Bond wearing tuxes and consistently captured by the villain in every Bond movie seems like a parallel to having Barbara Gordon wearing a Batgirl costume and consistently being captured by the villain.
And it’s not like Batman and Robin weren’t wearing fairy tight costumes too, and last I checked they were also captured and put in some damn weird predicaments as well.
In the first episode, Penguin kidnaps her for a shotgun wedding to control her Daddy, not particularly progressive, even by standards of the day… And it is more of an observation than an objection. Diana Rigg talked about the Avengers and there was no mincing of words, the sexy outfits and her periodic bondage was absolutely part of the formula.

Batgirl and all the molls were there to engage adolescent male viewers (and their dads). A show in those days could not sustain itself entirely on the homoerotic subtext alone. Star Trek was a western with minidresses. Charlie’s Angel was jiggle TV. While female characters were getting getting progressively more to do, they had to be hot.

It’s a shame the fourth season never happened. It would have been great to see Batgirl running parallel investigations with Batman. I couldn’t see her giving up her autonomy to fill Robin’s roll, even if she started getting Robin sized numbers of Bat-traps.

The shame is, her character is so tied to the 1960s. Despite being a grown woman, she is called BatGIRL. Her character’s motivation is basically Batman Fan Service. The pilot they did for her character is absolutely cringe worthy. On the actual show she was a great character, but she used her feminity to manipulate her father and Batman, they were patronizing and dismissive of both Barbara and Batgirl. It worked great in the structure of the show, but I doubt it would fare well in 2022.

A Batgirl show or movie would probably work best if they simply decided to riff on the 1960s sensibilities with a Barbara/ Batgirl who was stuck trying navigate that world as a crime fighter. I see her as a woman who became a librarian because women couldn’t become cops. And nice girls weren’t danger junkies that would fight a room full of goons. She get’s a high from it. She is not some brooding righter of wrongs. She is doing what she loves in Gotham that expects different things from a proper girl.

I like your idea of a Batgirl series based on the 1960s sensibilities. Perhaps a 60s piece, something similar to Mrs. Maisel in terms of the setting and style? Perhaps a movie or series in the style of the upcoming She-Hulk series in which Barbara Gordon's thoughts and observations would be a humorous part of the move/series. One aspect could be putting Batgirl in the same traps as the old TV show, but having the sarcastic and modern Barbara Gordon mocking the absurdity of such traps. She could even acknowledge the intentional use of a skintight sexy outfit as a way of distracting villains, as well as admitting her cape is merely a pointless accessory and her boots aren't quite the best for crimefighting but they do look ravishing on her!

As for the misogyny point, I think it's just how we interpret using sexy outfits. I see it as a way to attract an audience who finds women in sexy outfits attractive. But that's not something I think of as misogyny--I don't interpret such actions as a dislike or hatred towards women, nor some sort of prejudice against women. And after all, most leading actors at the time (and now) were good-looking men.
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The Palicki WW failed because they took the femininity out of the character. LC could look good, but did not strut around like she owned the place, despite being WW. Gal Godot plays it much more true to the original (would be better with more of the BDSM). Nobody roots for a bitch. Just MHO.
Yes WW played by LC and GG had class. The AP version had no strong character or class. Just angry all the time. And LC never flaunted her body for a security guard.
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Since it has come up, is there any place to see the full WW episode with AP?
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This was never going to be something that appealed to me, but it would be a shame if it didn't somehow find itself onto the internet. Would suck to get your big break, work hard on something and not be able to show people the finished result.
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I cynically think this is a hype ploy like a "release the snyder cut" thing being engineered

will wait to see if a release batgirl cult starts hopping around on twitter looking for attention
There is definitely something happening here. This movie will see the light of day. Maybe they figured out they were going to lose more money with a theatrical release.
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There's always direct to video if they want to make some money. It depends upon the terms of their insurance and tax write off for not releasing it,

I'm sure someone will leak it on the Internet like the failed WW pilot.

Edit - Variety reported that the movie was scrapped in order to take a tax writedown.
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The directors of this seem pretty cool. Makes me suspect the film isn't that bad. Interested to know.

Maybe they could make "Irredeemable Batgirl" into the film title. It worked for Inedible Spiderman.
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Adil and Bilall, who are good action-movie directors, are having a string of bad luck lately. Their Ms. Marvel series wasn't well received (lowest audience of any MCU TV show). They got pulled off the director's chairs for Beverly Hills Cop IV, which looked like it was going to be killer (Eddie Murphy and Harold Faltermeyer both returning). And now this. Can you imagine - Adil heard about this in the middle of his wedding in Morocco! Apparently, Warner is trying to renegotiate their contracts with the pair (and Leslie Grace, who should never have been Batgirl anyway, but would probably be fine playing any number of other superheroines) to keep them in the mix for future projects, but if I were them, I'd tell them to take a long walk off a short pier. The whole idea that a $90 million movie is better "written off" as a tax break than released in any format at all is beyond ridiculous and an insult to everyone who worked on it.

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Looks like HBO Max is also getting cut to the bone. The merger with Discovery+ seems apparently going to cause them to stop making scripted programming entirely.

So likely no more Harley Quinn, possibly no more Peacemaker (although Gunn has said it's safe).

There have been other movies getting canned too. Apparently this is just something you can do, turning a movie into a tax break.

Feels like a really brutal clear-cutting over there.

It's sad. No other word for it. I don't have a whole lot of time for the movies WB have been making, there's the odd good one lately though, but this feels wrong. This is brutalist economics. Shameful stuff.
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