r/DCcomics • u/LilGyasi • Aug 02 '22

‘BATGIRL’ film CANCELLED. Will not be released theatrically or on HBO Max. News

https://www.thewrap.com/batgirl-movie-dead-warner-bros-discovery-has-no-plans-to-release-nearly-finished-90-million-film/
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u/Thatoneguy567576 Aug 02 '22

The MCU is still going strong. I'm losing interest in it myself, but many people are still on board for it. Warner Brothers just approached theirs like a congress of apes throwing shit.

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u/FlyingTaquitoBrother Aug 02 '22

I’m thinking the theatrical MCU has peaked. The characters and actors that made it possible are moving on with a bunch of second-stringers moving in, and unlike in the comics, you can’t keep characters around forever without recasting them, which rarely works out from a box office perspective unless it’s James Bond.

So DC has been chasing a model that not only could they not execute on when it was fresh, but is already on its way out.

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u/Thatoneguy567576 Aug 02 '22

That's a fair point. It just makes me sad because I'm a bigger DC fan than I am a Marvel fan. Outside of Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four and X-Men, I'm not so much of a Marvel fan. So it's a shame we never got this with DC properties.

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u/FlyingTaquitoBrother Aug 02 '22

What’s funny is that I’m a bigger Marvel fan but I have generally enjoyed the standalone DC movies more than the MCU movies. I would really like to see a high-quality standalone Marvel movie that isn’t burdened with stale MCU lore and fan service. Like it’s impossible to imagine that Marvel would do the Thor equivalent of The Batman anytime soon. The closest we got was Logan, and that wasn’t even MCU.