One of the biggest shocks in Hollywood last year came with the news that Warner Bros. was completely shelving its Batgirl movie, with the studio abruptly pulling the plug on the $90 million-budgeted DC Films project deep into post-production as part of a tax write-off/cost-saving measure following the Discovery merger.
Unlike the likes of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (and Richard Donner’s cut of Superman II), it’s status as a tax write-off means its highly, highly unlikely that fans will ever see anything from Batgirl beyond the early promotional material – limited officially to the first-look image of Leslie Grace’s Barbara Gordon in a costume reminiscent of the character’s comic book look from the 2014 Batgirl revamp.
Well, it seems that wasn’t the only suit that Babs’ would have worn in the movie, as a behind-the-scenes image from the HBO Max movie has surfaced online showing Grace’s Batgirl in an upgraded, armored costume (presumably supplied by Michael Keaton’s Bruce Wayne?). Take a look at the costume here and be sure to let us know what you make of it on our social channels @FlickeringMyth…
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Leslie Grace has revealed the Batgirl suit that she would have worn by the end of the cancelled film pic.twitter.com/3nyyOSPwWF
— DC Daily (Neb) (@DCU_CORE) January 1, 2023
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Batgirl was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys For Life) and featured a cast that includes Leslie Grace (In the Heights) as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl, J.K. Simmons (Justice League) as Commissioner Jim Gordon, Micheal Keaton (The Flash) as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Brendan Fraser (Doom Patrol) as Firefly, Ivory Aquino (When They See Us) as Alysia Yeoh, Jacob Scipio (Bad Boys for Life) as Anthony Bressi, and Rebecca Front (Avenue 5), Corey Johnson (Morbius) and Ethan Kai (Killing Eve) in unrevealed roles.
Originally published January 2, 2023. Updated January 3, 2023.
