Batgirl

Pow! Why female writers are a top draw in the world of comics

As 15,000 fans gather in Yorkshire this weekend, authors tell how the male domination of the genre was broken

David Barnett

13, Nov, 2022 @10:00 AM

Batgirl axed, The Flash floundering – can Black Adam turn things round for DC’s troubled superheroes?

Any company with characters like Batman and Wonder Woman should be laughing all the way to the bank. So why are DC and its owner Warner Bros struggling with so many projects?

Steve Rose

18, Oct, 2022 @5:00 AM

‘Secret’ screenings of cancelled Batgirl movie being held by studio – reports

It remains unlikely the public will ever see the scrapped $90m film, with the directors saying ‘it cannot be released in its current state’

Sian Cain

25, Aug, 2022 @2:57 AM

Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films

Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories

Lizzy Dening

12, Aug, 2022 @10:00 AM

Kevin Smith: ‘It’s an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina Batgirl movie

The director and others have criticised Warner Bros over its decision to scrap the superhero movie starring Leslie Grace

Catherine Shoard

08, Aug, 2022 @1:22 PM

The Batgirl you’ll never see: why some films disappear for ever

She cost a cool $90m but the comic book heroine won’t even be streamed. Why do some productions deserve such an extreme fate?

Guy Lodge

06, Aug, 2022 @2:00 PM

Bad luck Batgirl: the cancellation of the DC superhero’s film is only her latest misfortune

The Gotham vigilante was patronised in The Lego Batman Movie, paralysed in The Killing Joke and underwritten in Batman and Robin. Will fans never get to see Gail Simone’s nuanced and modern version of the character?

Ben Child

04, Aug, 2022 @3:06 PM

Batgirl star Leslie Grace thanks fans for ‘love and belief’ following film’s cancellation

Actor speaks after the film, shot entirely in Glasgow on a $90m budget, was dropped from all platforms

Catherine Shoard and Severin Carrell

04, Aug, 2022 @10:18 AM

Batgirl directors respond to surprise axing of film: ‘We still can’t believe it’

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah have released a statement to express shock and sadness over the decision for their already shot film to be killed

Benjamin Lee

03, Aug, 2022 @6:24 PM

Tax concerns axed Batgirl, but studios will suffer if they become too cynical

Hollywood has always been hard-hearted – but now more than ever, it needs to remember that films are more than just profit-generating ‘content’

Peter Bradshaw

03, Aug, 2022 @10:35 AM

3D mermaids, CobraGator and Louis CK: the never-released films Batgirl will join in Hollywood’s vault of shame

Warner Bros is not the first studio to bury a film six feet deep. Here are a few more of the worst movies you’ll never see

Stuart Heritage

03, Aug, 2022 @10:19 AM

‘Irredeemable’ Batgirl movie unexpectedly cancelled despite being in final stages

Warner Bros confirms film starring Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon, Michael Keaton, JK Simmons and Brendan Fraser won’t ever be released