Joss Whedon Breaks His Silence On Why His BATGIRL Film Stalled At Warner Bros.

Joss Whedon Breaks His Silence On Why His BATGIRL Film Stalled At Warner Bros.

A few reports following Joss Whedon's exit from Batgirl surmised that the project would never take flight after WB shifted the course of the DCEU in the wake of Justice League's box office failure.

By MarkJulian - Apr 24, 2018 07:04 AM EST
Filed Under: Batgirl
Source: Variety
Joss Whedon walked the red carpet last night at the premiere for Avengers: Infinity War and spoke to Variety about why things didn't pan out on his Batgirl project at Warner Bros. 

Parsing through Whedon's statement, he makes reference to the #MeTooMovement as a factor into the project falling through the cracks.

"It had been a year since I first pitched the story. A lot happened in that year and I felt that some of the elements might not work as well and the story kind of just crumbled in my hands. There were elements that I just hadn't mastered and after a long time, I felt like I wasn't going to. So, I told people that I didn't have an idea, which isn't exactly true. I had an idea and it just didn't fit into the space that was left for it. It was a little heartbreaking because I was so excited about it but I'm currently working on something of my own and there's nothing more exciting to me than that."


Since Whedon's departure, Christina Hodson has been hired to write a new screenplay and Barbara Gordon is reportedly set to make her cinematic introduction into the DCEU in a Harley Quinn-led Birds of Prey film.
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JohnnyTBP
JohnnyTBP - 4/24/2018, 7:22 AM
Whatever he’s working on will be great
KWilly
KWilly - 4/24/2018, 7:23 AM
I still think they should just combine the Nightwing movie and Batgirl movie into one. Have it be a superhero duo movie. Kills two birds with one stone.
Saga
Saga - 4/24/2018, 7:35 AM
@KWilly - No way. Neither Nightwing or Batgirl need someone else to suceed. They are both great characters that can carry their own film, specially Grayson
mistral1
mistral1 - 4/24/2018, 7:36 AM
@KWilly - That’s actually a great idea! You can mix action and romance between Dick and Barb, I would love to watch that movie.
KWilly
KWilly - 4/24/2018, 7:44 AM
@Saga - If they can carry their own film individually, then combining them would even make a better film. Have a lot of action, a good story, a little romance... Idk, I think it could work.
BIGBMH
BIGBMH - 4/24/2018, 7:50 AM
@Saga - They're both characters whose foundations come from their relationship with other character (Bruce Wayne and Jim Gordon) so to jump into solo films for either of them without establishing that foundation through a Batman story significantly weakens them. We don't have the proper context for their growth and arc.
TheRose
TheRose - 4/24/2018, 7:24 AM
Just hoping to wash out the disgusting taste of Barbara in the animated Killing Joke.

Hmmm...how about she sleeps with her dad's best friend?
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 4/24/2018, 7:25 AM
I wonder if his idea for Batgirl was "I'll audition perky redheads for three months", and it fell apart when people found out why that wasn't a great idea...
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 4/24/2018, 7:27 AM
@Spock0Clock - Probably invited bruce timm for that (i say because i just read a bruce timm where bruce impreganates barb)
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 4/24/2018, 7:29 AM
@Toffee - (I know people hate it, but I do kind of dig the Bruce/Barbara shipping. It was a real strong undercurrent in the last season of the animated series and... it works for me.)

I welcome your pitchforks, peasants! For I am immune to pitchforks!
noahthegrand
noahthegrand - 4/24/2018, 7:32 AM
@Spock0Clock - I've always preferred Barbara and Dick
SpideyPuffsMJ
SpideyPuffsMJ - 4/24/2018, 7:40 AM
@noahthegrand - Oh I bet you have bro :D
LEVITIKUZ
LEVITIKUZ - 4/24/2018, 7:41 AM
@Spock0Clock - I do kind of dig the Bruce/Barbara shipping

YOU GIVE ME ALL THE SHIT FOR PRAISING THE RAIMI SPIDER-MAN FILMS BUT YOU KIND OF DIG BRUCE WAYNE [frick]ING HIS BEST FRIEND’S DAUGHTER & ADOPTED SON’S GIRLFRIEND?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 4/24/2018, 7:43 AM
@LEVITIKUZ - Well, when you put it like that... yep, hehehe.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 4/24/2018, 7:43 AM
@Spock0Clock - I disagree, even if you did like it. Dick is there, batman already mistreated, batman [frick]ing batgirl simply makes it worse. He was was right to beat the shit out of him.

Also it destroys the whole bat family dynamic, and is very icky, if you look at there ages.
CaptainElrond
CaptainElrond - 4/24/2018, 7:44 AM
@Spock0Clock - It reminded me of fifty shades of grey, is what im saying.
blackandyellow
blackandyellow - 4/24/2018, 7:25 AM
He's looking rough these days. Time to hire a personal trainer and get one of those black hats Feige always wears so people hopefully forget he's bald.
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