Now this is funny:

‘Irredeemable’ ‘Batgirl’ movie gets ‘shelved’ by Warner Bros. despite $70M price tag: source

A lot of movies get green-lit and then stopped before production because the studio realizes it’s too expensive, or the script is trash, or the actors/director are just not going to work out. It’s kinda rare for a studio to spend $70-$100 million on a movie, nearly complete the thing, show it to test audiences and then go, “Nah, hide this damn thing, let it never see the light of day.” Seems weird that they probably need to spend a dozen million more to complete it, then they can release it to whatever income it’ll get, but their math suggests that they’d be better off just eating what they’ve already spent and calling it a day.

Warner Brothers seems schizophrenic with its DC-comics properties. Non-DCEU movies like “The Batman” and “Joker” do ok, but the main-line DCEU films have had a tendency to flop. “Batgirl” had Leslie Grace (who?) in the title role, along with JK Simmons as James Gordon (as he was in “Justice League”) and Michael Keaton as Batman… you know, from 1989, not Ben Affleck from “Justice League.” Buh? It also has Brendan Frasier as the villain. But looking at the IMDB page… everyone else is a “Who’s That?” of Hollywood Z-listers.

One can hope that Warner Brothers – and Hollywood as a whole – will learn to not make trash in the first place. I’ll believe it when I stop seeing garbage on screen.

Lookin’ at *you,* Star Trek, Star Wars, Dr. Who…