The nearly finished Batgirl, which Warner Bros. shelved, was not only a letdown but also a tapestry of a more sinister anecdote, claims Brendan Fraser. Gender has been a constituent of a conundrum in the pages of Hollywood, but it rarely comes to light. Brendan portrayed the Antagonist Firefly in the still-untitled DC superhero film, while Leslie Grace portrayed Batgirl.
The Academy Award winner was open about the enormous loss of not having a Batgirl movie in an interview with the Associated Press on November 19. This loss would have affected both the folks driving the project and the millions of viewers it would have signified.
The Mummy heartthrob discussed what he thought about Hollywood in general in light of Batgirl’s cancellation.
He lamented, “The product — I’m sorry, ‘content’ — is being commodified to the extent that it’s more valuable to burn it down and get the insurance on it than to give it a shot in the marketplace,” Brendan said. “I mean, with respect, we could blight itself.” Batgirl was initially planned as the next movie in the DC Extended Universe; however, Warner Bros. revealed during post-production that it would not be releasing the picture due to budgetary constraints.
“A whole movie,” Brendan said. “I mean, there were four floors of production in Glasgow. I was sneaking into the art department just to geek out.”
Brendan described how audiences were deprived of the cultural influence. He was merely ravished at the fact that it would’ve been an artistic renaissance for little girls if released. He said, “The tragedy of that is that there’s a generation of little girls who don’t have a heroine to look up to and go, ‘She looks like me.'”
It’s even less likely that Batgirl will ever be released now that Warner Bros. Discovery and the DCEU are being reorganised into the DC Studios under James Gunn and Peter Safran.
