BATGIRL Star Leslie Grace Says Scrapped DC Movie Featured "Amazing Action Scenes" With Brendan Fraser

Leslie Grace has offered some additional insight into DC’s scrapped Batgirl movie that is sure to make fans wish they would have been able to see it. She talks about what an awesome experience it was for her to watch the movie, and also teases some “amazing action sequences” that it would have featured with Brendan Fraser, who played the villain Firefly.

During a recent interview with Collider, Grace said:

"I truly had one of [the best] experiences with Batgirl. In terms of the experience of shooting, we were all so excited for people to see a lot of the action, a lot of the practical shots we did with fire. Our movie was full of practical fire, which was really hard to shoot. Brendan [Fraser], our villain, our Firefly, he was just so outstanding. I felt so blessed to have him as my sparring partner. We had so many amazing action scenes together where we were beating each other up, but hugging in between takes because he’s just so sweet."

It’s a shame that we won’t be able to ever see this movie. I would have really liked to see how the story played out. But, it’s also cool to hear about all of the practical shots with fire and Fraser’s Firefly getting some cool action sequences!

The actress went on to say she would have "loved people to see those moments" and also shared some hopes that the movie could have a future somewhere.

"You have the experience, and you keep on rolling, and I feel so blessed, all in all, that I have those memories and hopefully maybe in some future, some clips will arise and people will get to enjoy a little bit of it. But for now, we’ll just have to keep it going in comic folklore, I guess, with all of our memories and our stories while we can."

The movie was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah from a script written by Christina Hodson, who previously wrote Bumblebee as well as DC’s Birds of Prey and The Flash. Kristin Burr, who recently worked on Cruella, produced the movie. The directors were pretty bummed out by the film being canceled, and previously said:

"It was a traumatic experience. [El Arbi and I] went through all the emotions. At that time, it was pretty unprecedented, so it was like movie history, but in a crazy way. There was still a lot of work to be done but they just said it was financial decisions and so that’s that and the movie can never be released."

Hopefully one day we will get to see some of the action footage from this Batgirl movie. Maybe one day someone will make a documentary about it.