‘Irredeemable’ ‘Batgirl’ movie gets ‘shelved’ by Warner Bros. despite $70M price tag
how shitty does a movie have to be that you don't even try to stealthily drop it on a streaming service
Apparently the Discovery guy, David Zaslav, who is now running the ship over there has just pushed the flush lever on a ton of the WB's utterly worthless fan fiction-tier DC content. There are still rumors that Amber Heard is being reshot out of the Aquaman sequel (which is also rumored to be a mess with or without her) and the Flash movie, although finished, keeps getting it's release date pushed back as everyone tries to figure out how many minors Ezra Miller has been inappropriate with. And I mean everyone, including the police.
Nerds are weeping about it, but there is a good argument behind the idea it's worse to release some 'irredeemable' franchise-destroying piece of trash even if it means having to eat the cost. Whatever money you could pull out of such a project in releasing it even to streaming won't be worth the damage to the brand even in the immediate short term.
When you look at who is writing and helming this sort of trash, it's all either nobodies or people with extremely bad track records who have nonetheless been allowed to work again and again. All of these ruinous productions have all been unforced errors, the legacy of incompetent studio managers and development people that have been allowed to run things for years.
Weirdly, amazingly, studios have been treating their top franchises like low circulation comic books from the Big Two: just hand them to anyone and allow SJWs to alienate most of the audience with their retarded ideas. But, unlike comic books, these franchises cost hundreds of millions of dollars to put together, so insane creatives are really playing as The Joker and setting hills of cash on fire. The Flash movie has cost at least $200M and the extremely "problematic" Ezra Miller cannot be removed from it; he plays three versions of the Flash, so it's still possible the order will be made to axe it rather than release it. You will then hear the ear-splitting shrieks of nerds crying about the lost footage of Michael Keaton wheezing out "I'm Batman" again.
No sane person can complain about any of the miserably bad content that Warner has been producing is getting the chop, but lots of Hollywood creatives who have been indulged over the past several years are screaming about it because their jobs are at stake if they actually have to create movies and shows that people would enjoy watching. Given this is the age of unrelenting superhero content, the mishandling of the DC franchise is far worse than even Star Wars, leaving billions of dollars on the table as Warner tries to make dumb characters like "Liberated Female Anti-hero Harley Quinn" happen. Apparently the end goal of the Flash movie was to have a new DC Cinematic Sub-Universe led by three chicks: Supergirl, Batgirl, and Wonder Woman. At least Gal Gadot knows how to smile and look decent, the other two are a spicy Latinx with a choppy haircut and a black woman with a ridiculous wig.
The whole PR problem, by the way, of having bisexual predator Ezra Miller in a $200M superhero movie probably goes all the way back to Warner's interference in DC properties after Man of Steel, when after numerous nerds and whiny critics complained they decided to try to force their own version of an Avengers movie several movies too soon and "lighten the tone" by introducing more "comedic" characters--hence Ezra Miller as a "nerdy Millennial" Flash.
