How Long Until #ReleaseTheBatgirlCut?
screenrant.comWarner Bros. Discovery recently revealed that they will not be releasing the DCEU Batgirl film in any form — making a #ReleaseTheBatgirlCut inevitable. The nearly finished movie had built up a lot of excitement with fans, as it featured an all-new hero, brought back several industry and DC veterans, and further expanded the DCEU. The announcement of Batgirl's cancellation, though, upset many fans who are now pushing for the film's release, following in the footsteps of #ReleaseTheSnyderCut.
Set to star Leslie Grace, Brendan Fraser, and Michael Keaton, Batgirl had wrapped filming before its cancellation and was nearly ready to be seen. However, due to shifting powers at Warner Bros. Discovery and a change of course for the DCEU, the film was shelved. Batgirl isn't the first film that has had to be campaigned for by fans, though. When DC released a butchered version of Justice League in 2017, the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign quickly began, petitioning for Warner Bros. to release a director's cut that stuck with Zack Snyder's original vision. After years of campaigning, the movement finally paid off when Zack Snyder's Justice League was released on HBO Max. Due to successes like this, similar campaigns among fans have become increasingly popular, with a campaign for a new Game of Thrones ending, a petition for a different Sonic design in Sonic the Hedgehog, and #ReleaseTheAyerCut for the Suicide Squad all being recent examples.
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Warner Bros. is no stranger to these fan demands, and WB's canceling of Batgirl has the potential to once again ignite the DC community into starting #ReleaseTheBatgirlCut. Many social media users have already begun expressing their anger
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