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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