The cancellation of the nearly-completed Batgirl film by Warner Bros. Discovery, and the subsequent midnight deletion of a half-dozen unpopular films from its HBO Max streaming service, have sent shockwaves through the industry among fans and professionals. While it might seem shocking to walk back a project that a segment of their audience may be excited about, it’s standard operating procedure that when an executive takes charge of a production house or studio, they clear the decks of projects their predecessors worked on. Usually, the thinking goes that if these are the properties that lost the previous powers-that-be their jobs (or their entire studio), it’s probably best to go in a different direction.
If anything was proved during the recent discourse around the so-called “Snyderverse” of DC Comics-inspired films, it was that comic book movie fans tend to be hyperbolic at the best of times. And so there’s a certain “sky is falling” tone to the panic around the cancellation of Batgirl, which would have featured a return of Michael Keaton to the role of Batman that he first played in the 1988 Tim Burton smash. It has led to vocal fans on social media to announce that this will be the end of HBO Max as a streaming service.
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