BATGIRL Directors Say Warner Bros. Deleted the Film From Studio's Server
When news broke that Warner Bros. canceled HBO Max’s Batgirl and said that they were never going to release it, directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah were understandably in a panic. Not long after they learned the bad news, they actually tried to save some of their footage that was on the Warner Bros. servers.
Well, when the directors accessed the server, they learned that Warner Bros. had already deleted the Batgirl footage! While talking to the French media outlet, Skript, Fallah said, “I went on the server… Everything was gone.” El Arbi added, “We were like, ‘Fucking shit!’ All the scenes with Batman in them!”
The filmmakers went on to say that it’s unlikely that the Batgirl will resurface in any form without the studio’s support as it was still unfinished. El Arbi said, “It cannot be released in its current state. There’s no VFX… we still had some scenes to shoot. So if one day they want us to release the Batgirl movie, they’d have to give us the means to do it. To finish it properly with our vision.”
El Arbi went on to say, “The guys from Warners told us, ‘it was not a talent problem from our part or the actress, or even the quality of the movie…’ They told us it was a strategic change. There was new management, and they wanted to save some money.”
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslov and the studio reportedly got a $20 million tax write-off by not releasing Batgirl. The movie cost $90 million to make, so that’s $70 million that was flushed down the toilet. What a waste!
Via: The Direct