Brendan Fraser thinks the lack of DC’s Leslie Grace-led superhero movie is “tragic”

A military of Barbara Gordon followers isn’t the one group upset about dropping Batgirl to DC’s rash of slash-and-burn restoration ways. Brendan Fraser, who starred within the canceled movie because the villain Firefly, says the lack of the film is “tragic,” and he’s dissatisfied by the flip of occasions. 

Fraser is experiencing a surge in recognition after being out of the Hollywood sport for a number of years. He’s lately delivered an awards-worthy efficiency in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, and casting brokers are banging on his door to hitch their promising tasks. You’d assume that DC would see the worth in permitting Batgirl to fly in theaters or, on the very least, develop into an HBO Max unique. Nevertheless, Chief Government Officer and President of Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, noticed little worth within the movie directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. In so many phrases, Zaslav mentioned the film wasn’t as much as snuff and vaulted the near-complete venture in favor of receiving a tax write-off.

“It’s tragic,” Fraser instructed Selection concerning the lack of Batgirl. “It doesn’t engender belief amongst filmmakers and the studio. Leslie Grace was improbable. She’s a dynamo — only a spot-on performer. Every little thing we shot was actual and thrilling and simply the antithesis of doing a simple digital, all-green-screen factor. They ran firetrucks round downtown Glasgow at 3 within the morning, and so they had flamethrowers. It was a big-budget film, however one which was simply stripped right down to the necessities.”

Sadly, the almighty greenback conquers all within the film enterprise, and Zaslav seems to have a selected imaginative and prescient for the way forward for DC Movies. Whereas the motivation to recoup a portion of WB’s staggering debt closely components into the choice to cancel Batgirl, Zaslav’s actions may have lasting hostile results on Warner Bros. Discovery. I’m nonetheless pissed about it. I shall be for a really very long time. Barbara Gordon is one in all my favourite characters from the DC Universe, and it could have been nice to guage the standard of the movie for ourselves, no?

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