When you get fired from a job, you aren’t able to take your favorite stapler, your keyboard, or any other favorite supplies home with you. The company has every right to make sure its property doesn’t leave. Apparently, that also is the case when a film you were in the middle of working on is suddenly canceled, and you’re told to head home, which is the situation filmmakers Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah found themselves in when they tried to take some “Batgirl” footage home with them.
Speaking to the French outlet, Skript, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah talked about the shock they felt when they learned that “Batgirl” was canceled by Warner Bros. Discovery while the film was already in post-production. Everything happened so fast, and they weren’t even able to take bootleg video on their phones of some of the “Batgirl” footage.
“No, we have nothing!” said Fallah. “Adil called me and said, ‘Go ahead shoot some things on your cellphone.’ I went on the server and everything was blocked,’”
El Arbi added, “We were [like], ‘Fucking shit!”
The directing duo, who most recently worked on “Ms. Marvel” and broke out with the release of “Bad Boys for Life,” also explained that reports that the film was pretty much done are far from accurate. They explained that the film was not close to done and still needed a few more scenes shot and most of the VFX done. So, outside of a Snyder Cut-esque situation where WBD gives them millions of dollars to finish their vision of the film, it’s unlikely that “Batgirl” will be seen.
And sure, it’s a rough situation when you’re blocked from seeing footage that you worked so hard on for months. And yes, you would hope that WBD would have given the duo a bit of a heads up that their film was in trouble and might not ever get released. But you can’t fault a studio for keeping its intellectual property secure and not effectively stolen from its own servers. That’s just how business works.
So, will “Batgirl” ever get released? It sure doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.
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