According to reports from the New York Post and The Wrap, Batgirl has been completed. Filming was completed in March and the project was in test screenings with audiences. This, reports say, is where the film was doomed, testing poorly at a time when the new leadership at Warner Bros. is trying to rebuild DC’s theatrical brand. It’s not particularly common for a completed franchise film to be completely shelved like this, and it’s especially strange now with content-hungry streaming platforms. But new Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav has big plans to overhaul the company’s entire film production, and regime changes often mean that many once-certain bets are thrown out in sometimes surprising ways. Batgirl has had a long and tortured development history. First announced in 2017, the film originally featured Avengers director Joss Whedon before he left in 2018. The latter film had a strong cast, with In the Heights star Leslie Grace in the title role, while Brendan Fraser will play bad. Firefly and Michael Keaton somehow returns as Bruce Wayne/Batman. Polygon reached out to Warner Bros. but received no comment by the time of publication.
