{"id":504698,"date":"2025-10-16T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504698\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:33:14","slug":"batgirl-star-jacob-scipio-says-he-saw-the-movie-before-it-was-scrapped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/504698\/","title":{"rendered":"BATGIRL Star Jacob Scipio Says He Saw The Movie Before It Was Scrapped"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Warner Bros. Discovery decided to pull the plug on\u00a0Batgirl\u2014even though principal photography had wrapped\u2014fans and filmmakers alike were left reeling. It was an unprecedented move and one that saw\u00a0Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s\u00a0DC Comics adaptation deemed “unreleasable” in reports from the trades.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seeing as moviegoers\u00a0had already\u00a0suffered through the likes of\u00a0Black Adam\u00a0and\u00a0The Flash, it was hard to believe a title made for Max could really be\u00a0that bad. Ultimately, it felt like\u00a0David Zaslav wanted to save money by scrapping\u00a0a movie which wouldn’t recoup its costs from a streaming debut.<\/p>\n

For what it’s worth, DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran has said\u00a0Batgirl\u00a0“was not releasable”<\/strong>\u00a0and, perhaps predictably, praised\u00a0“Zaslav and the team [for making a]\u00a0very bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC.”\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As the DCEU’s new Caped Crusader following Ben Affleck’s disappearance in\u00a0The Flash, Michael Keaton was enlisted to return as Batman alongside Leslie Grace’s Barbara Gordon.<\/p>\n

Batgirl looked set to\u00a0be a\u00a0big break for her and Jacob Scipio. The latter was cast as gangster Anthony Bressi, and in a recent interview with The Direct<\/a>, the actor confirmed he got to see a near-finished cut of the ill-fated DC movie.<\/p>\n

“I got the chance to watch it, and it was a phenomenal film,”<\/strong> he told the site.\u00a0“Man, I’m really sad the world never got to see it. But you know, you never know. You never know.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“It was great that they saved [‘Coyote V. Acme’]. I’m gonna have a ticket and be buying my ticket and seeing that movie myself,”<\/strong> Scipio continued.\u00a0“So there’s always hope. Hollywood’s a funny place, and I think if enough people want it, it can happen.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s a nice thought, but unlikely to happen. There’s even been talk of Batgirl\u00a0being deleted after a “funeral screening” was held for cast and crew, and it doesn’t add up for James Gunn to take a movie shot over three years ago, finish it, and make it canon to the DCU…it features the wrong Batman, for starters.<\/p>\n

It could always be an Elseworlds tale, of course, but the moment has passed.\u00a0“No, I didn’t care one way or another. Big, fun, nice check,”<\/strong>\u00a0Keaton said last year.\u00a0“I like [Batgirl directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah]. They’re nice guys. I pull for them. I want them to succeed, and I think they felt very badly, and that made me feel bad. Me?”<\/strong>\u00a0he added, shrugging.\u00a0“I’m good.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The plan had been for\u00a0Batgirl\u00a0to lead to this Dark Knight taking centre stage in a\u00a0Batman Beyond\u00a0project, likely meaning we could have looked forward to the\u00a0Bat Family being part of the now-defunct DCEU. Instead, DC Studios has rebooted the franchise as the DCU, with a new Bruce Wayne set to take centre stage in\u00a0The Brave and the Bold.<\/p>\n

Are you disappointed that the “phenomenal” Batgirl won’t see the light of day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Warner Bros. Discovery decided to pull the plug on\u00a0Batgirl\u2014even though principal photography had wrapped\u2014fans and filmmakers alike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[165469,77,165470,3943,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-504698","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-batgirl","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jacob-scipio","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115385047896159863","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}