Issues are getting a bit of bizarre in Gotham Metropolis. Batgirl, the forthcoming DC Comics movie directed by the Unhealthy Boys for Life duo Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, is reportedly now not coming to HBO Max and won’t be launched in any kind.

Based on stories from The New York Put up and The Wrap, Batgirl was successfully executed. Filming wrapped in March, and the challenge had been in take a look at screenings with audiences. This, the stories point out, is the place the movie was doomed, testing poorly throughout a time the place new Warner Bros. management is seeking to rebuild DC’s theatrical model.

It’s not significantly widespread for a accomplished franchise movie to be fully shelved like this, and it’s particularly odd now with streaming platforms hungry for content material. Nevertheless, new Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav has main plans to overhaul the complete firm’s movie output, and regime modifications usually imply many once-sure bets get discarded in typically shocking methods.

Batgirl has had an extended and tortured improvement historical past. First introduced in 2017, the movie initially had Avengers director Joss Whedon connected to direct earlier than exiting in 2018. The ultimate movie had assembled a powerful solid, with Within the Heights breakout star Leslie Grace within the lead function, Brendan Fraser set to play the villain Firefly, and Michael Keaton returning indirectly as Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Polygon reached out to Warner Bros. however didn’t obtain remark by publication time.