The first trailer for the fourth Bad Boys movie, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, was released online yesterday, and the footage has resulted in a renewed swell of support for directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah following Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav's controversial decision to scrap their Batgirl movie back in 2022.
The project was binned as a tax write-off, with reports doing the rounds at the time that Barbara Gordon's first solo outing simply wasn't very good, and DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran would later suggest that Batgirl may have been even more of a mess than we'd been led to believe.
"I saw the movie, and there are a lot of incredibly talented people in front of and behind the camera on that film. But that film was not releasable, and it happens sometimes. That film was not releasable. I actually think that [president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery David] Zaslav and the team made a very bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC. It would have hurt those people involved."
Several people involved with the movie, including stars Leslie Grace and Brendan Fraser, have pushed back against these claims, and fans are now even more convinced that there is "no way Batgirl could have been unreleasable."
Of course, a great trailer (debatable) doesn't always lead to a great movie, and even if Bad Boys 4 turns out to be amazing, it doesn't mean the filmmakers didn't deliver a dud with Batgirl.
At any rate, the chances of us ever seeing Batgirl for ourselves are somewhere between slim and none (we're not even sure the movie still exists), although Grace has confirmed that she has spoken to Safran and James Gunn about potentially returning as Babs down the line.
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