Kevin Smith Calls Out ‘Batgirl’ Cancellation While ‘The Flash’ Remains On Release Schedule: ‘It’s An Incredibly Bad Look’

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Kevin Smith still wants to see the “Batgirl” movie. On the new episode of his podcast “Hollywood Babble-On”, the “Clerks” director shared his reaction to news that Warner Bros.

is scrapping the superhero movie. READ MORE: ‘Batgirl’ Star Leslie Grace & Zoe Saldana React To $90-Million Superhero Movie Being Shelved $90 million had already been spent on the film, which was set to be released direct to streaming on HBO Max in the U.S.

later this year. Leslie Grace of “In the Heights” as to star as Batgirl. “It’s an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina ‘Batgirl’ movie,” Smith said. “I don’t give a s**t if the movie was absolute f**king dog s**t – I guarantee you that it wasn’t.

The two directors [Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi] who directed that movie did a couple of episodes of ‘Ms. Marvel,’ and it was a wonderful f**king show and they had more money to do ‘Batgirl’ than they had to do an episode of ‘Ms.