Even Batgirl Movie Directors Don't Know How it Fits In DCEU Multiverse
The directors of Batgirl are unsure about how their movie fits into the DCEU and the wider multiverse.Batgirl is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, who helmed the 2020 film Bad Boys For Life and recently directed the first and sixth episodes of the critically acclaimed MCU series, Ms. Marvel. Batgirl stars Leslie Grace (In The Heights) as Barbra Gordon's incarnation of the superhero and features Brendan Fraiser (The Mummy) as the villain Firefly.
The film will also star J.K. Simmons as Barbra's father Commissioner Gordon, as Simmons previously played the role in both the theatrical and Zack Snyder's Justice League. Batman will also be in the film but not Ben Affleck's DCEU version. Instead, Michael Keaton is reprising his role from 1989's Batman and 1992's Batman Returns. Keaton is set to return to the role in 2023's The Flash, and his appearance in Batgirl alongside a DCEU version of Gordon implies some interesting implications for the fallout of The Flash.
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It appears though that the directing duo are still unaware of exactly how Batgirl fits into the larger story. In a recent interview with The Direct, both El Arbi and Fallah said that Batgirl is a mix of various different parts of the DC Multiverse, and will be explained in another DC movie most likely, The Flash. The duo said that DC never truly explained the plan for the multiverse to them. El Arbi said:
«Well you know, we’d sort of give the same answer, because we would also ask, 'Oh, you have J.K. Simmons from the Snyderverse and we got Michael Keaton from the Burton-verse. What’s the situation there?’ And they would say, ‘Don’t worry about it. We got a plan.’ They never really
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