Josh Whedon Batgirl Solo Film ?

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Originally Posted by sdp

Emma Stone is too old now, if they're going for her then I'd prefer Lindsay honestly, I can see her getting fit for the role while Emma I can't see her looking intimidating.

Lindsay is two years older than Emma.

[Krutch]

Originally Posted by sdp

out of all the Whedon stuff I've watched the only thing I've loved is Firefly, the rest ranges from "ok" to "bad", even the movie of FireFly was horrible.

So...much..blasphemy

[Andrew NDB]

Zero chance of Lindsay Lohan even being in a far-off spectrum of consideration for Batgirl. Even forgetting her questionable performances in movies and inability to carry anything, her age, her cigarette (and who knows what else)-wrecked voice... she is consistently always impossible to work with on movie sets.

Batgirl will probably be cast as some 23-25 year-old up-and-coming talent from a CW show or independent film or something. As it should be. Though the Hit Girl actress might be workable.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Yeah, that's not the way casting works.

I wonder if it will turn into a Sean Young Catwoman situation i.e. Lohan crashes the audition in costume sending a terrified Joss Whedon into hiding.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ProactiveMan

I wonder if it will turn into a Sean Young Catwoman situation i.e. Lohan crashes the audition in costume sending a terrified Joss Whedon into hiding.

Joss already is in hiding. The man has barely said one word since "Justice League" came out.

[ProactiveMan]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Joss already is in hiding. The man has barely said one word since "Justice League" came out.

Probably that whole ex-wife situation. To tell you the truth, after that blew up I assumed Batgirl wasn't happening.

[NinjaPug]

Whedon is off the project

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...mpression=true

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

Whedon is off the project

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...mpression=true

Good. Give it to somebody else.

“Batgirl is such an exciting project, and Warners/DC such collaborative and supportive partners, that it took me months to realize I really didn’t have a story,” Whedon told The Hollywood Reporter in a statement. Referring to DC president Geoff Johns and Warners Picture Group president Toby Emmerich, Whedon added, “I’m grateful to Geoff and Toby and everyone who was so welcoming when I arrived, and so understanding when I… uh, is there a sexier word for ‘failed’?”

It ain't that hard, Joss. Pretty sure he was just quietly shown the back door after Justice League was a kindergartner's cut-and-paste mess. But PR gonna PR...

[Autbot_Benz]

now Whedon can go hide from those crazy ass Snyder fans who keep believing there is a snyder cut of JL

[ZariusTwo]

I don't blame him for not finding a story. Babs is thoroughly boring as Batgirl. Her strengths as a character lie in her rise to prominence as Oracle and overcoming her handicap

[Redeemer]

I like the new 52 babs, I am not a fan of Oracle.

[CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

I don't blame him for not finding a story. Babs is thoroughly boring as Batgirl. Her strengths as a character lie in her rise to prominence as Oracle and overcoming her handicap

The obvious Batgirl film would be half Batgirl, half Oracle. Tell the story, Killing Joke flashbacks, Babs recovers, end with Babs agreeing to train a new Batgirl... Cassandra, Helena, or Stephanie.

Boom.

[CyberCubed]

I take it this movie isn't happening at all then, looks like another scraped DC movie project. What else is new.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

The obvious Batgirl film would be half Batgirl, half Oracle. Tell the story, Killing Joke flashbacks, Babs recovers, end with Babs agreeing to train a new Batgirl... Cassandra, Helena, or Stephanie.

Boom.

That'd be like... "Batgirls."

[dl316bh]

Oracle was, frankly, making the best of a bad situation. I kind of liked those days for her, but I'm also glad they got away from that, because she did just end up becoming shorthand for evidence and all that. That's sort of around where the actual detective aspects of Batman started disappearing and she handled all of that stuff. Not that I think it's improved overmuch since, so maybe that's just a lost cause for now.

Whether Babs is an interesting Batgirl... well, eh. I'm fine with her and think it's worked out well enough. I was never against going back to her in the first place, mainly because we never knew what she'd have been with modern sensibilities anyway. Her time as Batgirl was all Silver Age, when everything was done in one and you didn't need to focus so much on character, sort of like Barry Allen.

It ain't that hard, Joss. Pretty sure he was just quietly shown the back door after Justice League was a kindergartner's cut-and-paste mess. But PR gonna PR...

Judging by what he'd considered as a script for Wonder Woman when he was on that, maybe it's for the best.

[Sumac]

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

It ain't that hard, Joss. Pretty sure he was just quietly shown the back door after Justice League was a kindergartner's cut-and-paste mess. But PR gonna PR...

I think, it was more problem not with Whedon, but with Snyder making such trash-tier thing, that no amount of rework and reshooting was able to salvage it.

[NinjaPug]

Some conspiracy theorists think Joss was never hired to work on Batgirl. They think that was just a smoke screen and Whedon was only hired to replace Snyder on Justice League. I guess the reasoning is that WB wanted to avoid fan backlash for firing Snyder and replacing him with Whedon.

I guess the timeline would support that if you believe the reports that Snyder was fired last February. Whedon is hired for Batgirl in March. In April they announce Snyder is stepping away for personal reasons and Whedon is stepping in.

[Papenbrook]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

Whedon is off the project

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/am...mpression=true

Good. Whedon was a disgusting creeper.

[TigerClaw]

Warner Bros wants to hire a female director for Batgirl
http://comicbook.com/dc/2018/02/22/w...er-for-batgir/

[Papenbrook]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

Warner Bros wants to hire a female director for Batgirl
http://comicbook.com/dc/2018/02/22/w...er-for-batgir/

I would say, "do it."

We need more films that are directed by women.