{"id":84728,"date":"2025-10-17T17:17:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84728\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T17:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:17:10","slug":"batgirl-star-has-hope-for-films-eventual-release-after-it-was-shelved-3-years-ago-hollywoods-a-funny-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84728\/","title":{"rendered":"Batgirl Star Has ‘Hope’ for Film’s Eventual Release After It Was Shelved 3 Years Ago: ‘Hollywood’s a Funny Place’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warner Bros.’ decision to shelve Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah\u2019s Batgirl<\/a> movie over three years ago was the shot heard around the world of cinema. The choice ignited a backlash from fans that has so far gone ignored \u2014 but one person involved in the film thinks there might be some potential for it to be released one day. <\/p>\n

“I got the chance to watch it, and it was a phenomenal film<\/a>,\u201d Jacob Scipio, one of the film\u2019s stars, told The Direct<\/a> in a new interview. \u201cMan, I’m really sad the world never got to see it. But you know, you never know. You never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also noted the story of Warner Bros, film Coyote vs. Acme<\/a> gives him some hope. “It was great that they saved [Coyote vs. Acme], I’m gonna have a ticket and be buying my ticket and seeing that movie myself. So there’s always hope,\u201d Scipio told the outlet. \u201cHollywood’s a funny place, and I think if enough people want it, it can happen.”<\/p>\n

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In 2022, Warner Bros. shelved the Batgirl film as a tax write-off, despite the fact it was nearly finished when the decision was made. The cost-cutting measure not only sparked a backlash with fans but the gutted reactions<\/a> from El Arbi, Fallah, and star Leslie Grace. DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran went on to claim in 2023 that the movie \u201cwas not releasable<\/a>\u201d and \u201cwould have hurt DC.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Warner Bros did it again with the well-tested and highly anticipated Coyote vs. Acme in 2023, despite it being finished as well. That backlash was even more intense than Batgirl\u2019s, and over a year later it was saved from never seeing the light of day by Ketchup Entertainment, which acquired the movie<\/a> after a long period of deal-making with Warner Bros. It is set to finally premiere in theaters August 28, 2026.<\/p>\n

Hopefully Batgirl will follow in its footsteps someday soon. <\/p>\n

Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warner Bros.’ decision to shelve Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah\u2019s Batgirl movie over three years ago was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-84728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}