
Vicki Vale really is the protagonist in the movie. That’s an interesting take I’ve never thought about once, but you’re right. No one ever cast as Batman would ever scare anyone, in costume or out. They’ve never a 100% nailed it because that’s easier to draw than to cast.

A guy as good looking as Bruce Wayne but big and scary as Batman, and can act. And I really like Keaton as an actor, but he wasn’t really Bruce Wayne or Batman. It was groundbreaking as a “serious” superhero movie at the time, but doesn’t hold up completely well. That movie succeeded on Jack Nicholson and tremendous production design, not his performance. I don’t think he was horrible, but this retro nostalgia thing that he was some great Batman was always weird to me. “I really have no idea.” ( With reporting by Vlada Gelman) Reprising the role for Batgirl “was great, it was fun,” he said. So, when might Keaton next, actually be seen as Batman…? If ever? He also reprised the role for the long-delayed, potentially-in-limbo, Ezra Miller-starring The Flash standalone movie, and he reportedly has been replaced with Ben Affleck in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (in theaters Dec. “Particularly with DC, where we think we want to pivot and we want to elevate and we want to focus.”īatgirl was to mark one of Keaton’s first encores as Batman since 1992’s Batman Returns. And we’re not going to put a movie out unless we believe in it,” WBD’s President and CEO David Zaslav later explained.


We’re not going to launch a movie to make a quota. “We’re not going to launch movie until it’s ready. The standalone pic, starring In the Heights‘ Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl, by some accounts was not testing well enough with audiences to instill confidence in Warner Bros. The film was originally planned to be R-rated with a more darker tone.The decision to shelve the nearly-complete Batgirl movie - which was intended to bypass theaters and premiere on HBO Max - sent shockwaves across the entertainment biz in early August.Milly Alcock, TBA, and Colin Farrell were cast as Stephanie Brown/Spoiler, Cassandra Cain/Orphan, and Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin, respectively, in 2018. Zoey Deutch was confirmed to reprise her role as Batgirl and Taylor Russell were slated to appear as Huntress for Red Hood and Birds of Prey. Katheryn Winnick was announced to play Black Canary as well as directing the film. The film was announced along with the entirety of Silver Age in the 2018 San Diego Comic-Con. Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin.Milly Alcock as Stephanie Brown/Spoiler.

Taylor Russell as Helena Bertinelli/Huntress.Katheryn Winnick as Dinah Lance/Black Canary.Detective Renee Montoya (who's sitting next to her the whole time) then strikes a conversation with Barbara, asking her about how she knew about Penguin, Barbara then stutters and leaves the club. She meets Dinah at the bar and Dinah sighs at seeing her again, Barbara explains that she needs help in possibly fighting a large conflict with Penguin and some dangerous asset coming to Gotham, Dinah is tired and abandons Barbara. Later on, Barbara goes to look for Dinah Lance, and find that she is performing in Iceberg Lounge. As she does, a figure from atop the buildings strikes the goon with a projectile, knocking him out, Batgirl looks around to find no one, she then leaves the scene before James Gordon and the Gotham City Police Department arrives. Batgirl takes down some Penguin's goons, she goes into one of the goon's phone and searches for messages, and finds some conversations in Penguin's criminal organization group chat about some dangerous asset inbound for Penguin's use, she then interrogates the goon and he says he doesn't know what the asset is, and does a sudden attack on Batgirl and runs away, prompting Batgirl to chase him. In Gotham City, Batman is absent and has trusted Batgirl to watch over the city for him. " Batman counts on me, isn't that crazy?" ― Batgirl Penguin is smuggling a human, an asset of the League of Assassins and a living weapon in the form of a girl.Ī bloody convoy carrying a dangerous asset in Japan is heading to the airport, where she is loaded to a plane and en rout to USA. Batgirl contacts her old mentor Black Canary to help her take down Penguin, meeting Huntress who is on the same mission.
