‘Batgirl’ Composer Wrote 90 Minutes of Music Before Warner Bros. Axed the Film: ‘Worked On it For a Year’
variety.comZack Sharf It’s been two weeks since Warner Bros. announced it would not be releasing “Batgirl” in theaters or on HBO Max, instead opting to take a tax write-off on the $90 million comic book tentpole.
In a new interview with Discussing Film, composer Natalie Holt called the studio’s decision to ax the film “a massive shame.” Holt, an Emmy nominee for her work on Marvel’s “Loki,” worked for a year on the “Batgirl” score and had 90 minutes of original music written when the news hit that the film was being shelved.“I had written about an hour and a half of music,” Holt said. “I’ve been working on it for a year.
So yeah, pretty sad what’s happened to it. I was on set last Christmas, [directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah] really loved ‘Loki’ and that’s why I got picked to do the score for ‘Batgirl.’ So it’s a shame that it’s not going to be out there in the world after all that time, like having spent a year working on it.
Yeah, pretty disappointing.” “I think it’s a massive shame,” added Holt, who also scored “Obi-Wan Kenobi” this year. “It’s been a pleasure to work with the people involved, but that’s all I can say.”“Batgirl” was designed to release on HBO Max, but the new leadership at Warner Bros.
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