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Warner Bros. chief says dropping Batgirl and more took a lot of “courage”

December 1, 2023 by EJ Moreno

If you think scrapping projects like Batgirl and Coyote vs. Acme as tax right-offs was easy, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav says think again.

Zaslav appeared at the New York Times Dealbook Summit in New York this past week and dropped some major headlines concerning his controversial choice to can Batgirl, the Scoob! sequel Scoob! Holiday Haunt, and more recently, Coyote vs. Acme.

The exec claims that deciding not to release a project takes “courage,” adding that it “requires very hard decisions” and “many of them are unpopular.”

Zaslav states, “What content is going to help us win? The content that wasn’t, we made a strategic decision on. It was difficult, and it was painful. But I think it was the right decision for the company, and it was necessary.”

He concludes, “It’s a very scary time, but it’s also an exciting time because of what’s possible. We were the first ones through. We needed to get healthy and needed to build a real business around this company.”

SEE ALSO: Batgirl star Leslie Grace opens about the movie’s devastating cancellation

Batgirl was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, with Leslie Grace, Michael Keaton, J.K. Simmons, and Brendan Fraser featuring in the cast.

Among the cast of Coyote Vs. Acme was Will Forte, John Cena, and Lana Condor, with Forte as Coyote’s lawyer and Cena as ACME’s former boss. David Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows) directed the film, from a script by Samy Brunch, Jeremy Slater, and James Gunn.

Warner Bros. gave Coyote Vs. Acme an option to be sold to new companies by shopping the project; Batgirl and the Scoob! sequel were not given that chance.

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News, Top Stories Tagged With: Batgirl, David Zaslav, DC, DC Extended Universe, dc studios, DC Universe, Scoob, Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, Scooby-Doo, Warner Bros.

About EJ Moreno

EJ Moreno is a film and television critic and entertainment writer who joined the pop culture website Flickering Myth in 2018 and now serves as the executive producer of Flickering Myth TV, a YouTube channel with over 27,000 subscribers. With over a decade of experience, he is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic who is also part of the Critics Choice Association and GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics.

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