HBO Max's BATGIRL starring Leslie Grace (2022?) 5 5

[Sauce Dog]

Just so everyone is clear because lots of people are not getting it: this is PARODY VIDEO! But man, it certainly is very well done and just makes me want Firefly more.
 

 

[Sauce Dog]

Full making-of feature on how they create the above parody trailer is also up, and worth a watch. Amazing attention to detail creating the costumes.
 

 

[Bosco685]

 

[Bosco685]

 

[Cat]

On 12/6/2022 at 10:07 AM, Bosco685 said:

 

"Look, we get another tax write-off for killing you both, so... sorry?" 

[Sauce Dog]

On 12/5/2022 at 7:07 PM, Bosco685 said:

 

Gunn: "Hi guys, don't mind the mess - I just have here all the footage from Batgirl sitting on my desk...now if you will excuse me I need to turn my back to you all for several minutes" *wink wink wink*
 

[Bosco685]

On 12/6/2022 at 8:26 AM, Sauce Dog said:

Gunn: "Hi guys, don't mind the mess - I just have here all the footage from Batgirl sitting on my desk...now if you will excuse me I need to turn my back to you all for several minutes" *wink wink wink*
 

In his best South Park Mister Mackey voice:

"Gonna turn now - okay??"

[theCapraAegagrus]

On 12/5/2022 at 7:07 PM, Bosco685 said:

 

Do we know which episodes of Ms. Marvel they directed? I didn't like the writing/etc, but E1 was high-quality. Perhaps Gunn offers them an opportunity to direct a theatrical film featuring Batgirl, since Zaslav doesn't want to hemorrhage money into HBO Max releases.

Vague idea: Deathstroke hunts down Batgirl, intent on killing her, believing that she's related to Bruce Wayne (thanks, Luthor). Affleck's Batman intervenes, and they team up to bring Wilson down. It's the first time since Robin's death that Bruce houses and embraces a new sidekick, after Deathstroke takes everything but her life, because Batman feels responsible.

[Gatsby77]

On 12/6/2022 at 9:24 AM, theCapraAegagrus said:

Do we know which episodes of Ms. Marvel they directed? I didn't like the writing/etc, but E1 was high-quality.

They directed episodes 1 and 6 (first and last).

I like your idea for a Deathstroke-centered Batgirl film.

And wouldn't mind if he - rather than the Joker - is the reason she ends up in a wheelchair. Would be refreshing to see a superhero film with real consequences - and I think it would take a lot of non-comic readers by surprise.

[paperheart]

from the studio that released: Suicide Squad, JL, Batman v Superman, Green Lantern, Black Adam, Birds of Prey, WW 1984

‘Batgirl’ “Was Not Releasable” Says DC Co-Chief Peter Safran, But Studio Would Like To Be Back In Business With Pic’s Directors

https://deadline.com/2023/01/batgirl-dc-peter-safran-james-gunn-adil-el-arbi-bilall-fallah-1235245870/

 

[Bosco685]

On 1/31/2023 at 5:11 PM, paperheart said:

from the studio that released: Suicide Squad, JL, Batman v Superman, Green Lantern, Black Adam, Birds of Prey, WW 1984

‘Batgirl’ “Was Not Releasable” Says DC Co-Chief Peter Safran, But Studio Would Like To Be Back In Business With Pic’s Directors

https://deadline.com/2023/01/batgirl-dc-peter-safran-james-gunn-adil-el-arbi-bilall-fallah-1235245870/

 

If anything no matter how individuals feel about DC movies, it does convey the new leadership was taking a stand on the DC brand rather than being heavy-handed without any care for the final result (e.g. Josstice League). Right or wrong.

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Safran told reporters, "Batgirl's a character that inevitably we will include in our story." He continued, "On the Batgirl front... I saw the movie, and there are a lot of incredibly talented people in front of and behind the camera on that film. But that film was not releasable, and it happens sometimes. That film was not releasable. I actually think that [President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David] Zaslav and the team made a very bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC. It would have hurt those people involved."

 

[Bosco685]

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Plenty of esteemed actors have since wriggled into the Batsuit—George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck, Robert Pattinson—but Keaton is still considered to be one of the best Batmen, and certainly the best Bruce Wayne. He’s even reprised the role, twice: in 2023’s The Flash and in the unreleased Batgirl, the latter of which was scrapped by Warner Bros. amid cost-cutting measures and will never see the light of day. Was the fate of Batgirl disappointing to him at all?

 

“No, I didn't care one way or another. Big, fun, nice check,” Keaton says, rubbing his fingers together in the universal gesture for “moolah.”

 

He pauses for a second, then softens slightly. “I like those boys. They're nice guys.” (Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, he means.) “I pull for them. I want them to succeed, and I think they felt very badly, and that made me feel bad. Me?” he says, shrugging. “I'm good.”

 

Keaton is starting to get visibly agitated with this line of questioning. He tenses up, and I suddenly find myself on the disapproving end of some of cinema’s most famous eyebrows. Why does everyone want to talk about Batman all the time anyway? At the end of the day, it was a role he played, like any other. If there was one thing he really got out of it, it was this: “I'm nothing but only respectful and grateful, 100%,” Keaton says. "And proud of it actually, because I like to prove everybody wrong. It's fun for me."