MOVIES: Batgirl – News Roundup *Updated 4th August 2022*

After testing actresses this week, Warner Bros. And DC Movies seems to be to have discovered their Batgirl. Sources inform Deadline Leslie Grace has been tapped to play Barbara Gordon within the studios’ Batgirl.

The studio was already tremendous excessive with the rising star following her breakout function in Within the Heights, and sources say her audition sealed the deal as the selection.

The studio had no remark.

Two months after Joss Whedon left the Batgirl film venture, the studio is transferring forward on growing a brand new film venture primarily based on the DC Leisure heroine.

Christina Hodson, who wrote the upcoming Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, has been tapped to pen a brand new script that includes Barbra Gordon, the daughter of Gotham Metropolis police commissioner James Gordon.

Whedon, the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer amongst different popular culture touchstones, is exiting the Warner Bros. characteristic venture which he was writing and slated to direct.

“Batgirl is such an thrilling venture, and Warners/DC such collaborative and supportive companions, that it took me months to appreciate I actually didn’t have a narrative,” Whedon informed The Hollywood Reporter in a press release. Referring to DC president Geoff Johns and Warners Image Group president Toby Emmerich, Whedon added, “I’m grateful to Geoff and Toby and everybody who was so welcoming once I arrived, and so understanding once I… uh, is there a sexier phrase for ‘failed’?”

However sources say that Whedon, after a 12 months of making an attempt, couldn’t crack the code of what a Batgirl film needs to be. Surprise Lady, in the intervening time, grew to become a cultural phenomenon in addition to one of many greatest hits and most acclaimed motion pictures of 2017.

Whereas DC movies at present are in a quiet interval — Warners is barely releasing Aquaman in 2018 and Shazam! is the one film in manufacturing — that’s anticipated to quickly change. Surprise Lady 2 is heading into the casting stage and would be the subsequent pic to shoot. Insiders say the subsequent wave will possible embody the Flash movie and Batgirl, amongst others.

Whedon is in negotiations to write down, direct and produce a Batgirl stand-alone film for Warner Bros., including one other heroine to the studio’s DC cinematic universe.

Warner Bros. Footage president Toby Emmerich will oversee the venture, together with Jon Berg and Geoff Johns.