Kevin Smith Criticizes Warner Bros. For Canceling Batgirl
Director Kevin Smith addresses the cancellation of Leslie Grace's Batgirl movie with an honest critique of Warner Bros.'s decision to cancel the film. The director has worked on a number of DC Comics projects, including comic book stories, video games, television, and animation projects. Batgirl would have featured Grace, Michael Keaton, Brendan Frasier, JK Simmons, and Ivory Aquino.
Originally announced in 2017, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Falah's Batgirl would have seen Grace take on the role of Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Simmons' Commissioner Gordon. Grace's Batgirl would have teamed up with Keaton's Batman and faced off against Brendan Fraser's pyromaniac villain Firefly, but in a shocked announcement, the film was suddenly scrapped in August 2022, with parent company Warner Bros. Discovery stating the film would not release in any form. While Batgirl directors El Arbi and Falah shared their own responses alongside Grace following the news breaking, another filmmaker with a history with DC Comics has shared his own honest input on the situation.
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In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Kevin Smith stated that Warner Bros.'s cancellation of Grace's Batgirl film was a bad decision, regardless of the film's supposed quality. The writer and filmmaker then addressed the suggestions that the cancellation occurred due to the film looking cheap, stating that audiences would have still watched the film, even if it only looked slightly better than a CW/DC project. Following his brutally honest critiques, Smith suggested there must be other factors in play. Read his comments, below:
«It's an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina Batgirl movie. I don't give a s--t if the
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