Joss Whedon in talks to direct Batgirl

[hostsamurai]

They should hire the Lady Bird director and have Saoirse Ronan be Batgirl.

I'm all for women directors and all that but I want the best fit for the job, she must know and understand Bab's character, her dynamics with the bat family, her father and Gotham. Whether the director is male or female shouldn't matter.

I still think Red Hood is a much more interesting character to bring to the screen than Nightwing or Batgirl. Although I guess DC would have to set him up with Under the red hood before a solo film.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

They need to put this and Nightwing on hold until they drop The Batman an actually establish his world first.

That's probably not going to happen but it sounds like a Great Idea, there's a ton of things in DCEU that shouldn't have been done yet until certain other things were established. I don't think it matters much now seeing as everything has been Ass Backwards so far, all they have left to depend on is decent stories and great action, everything is basically connected but it's just not exciting as a Universe should be with Easter Eggs and Cameos. I'm waiting on the day they cancel this DCEU and Start fresh since they've tarnished it to Hell, if WB can't see that their involvement has ruined it then they're Dumber than I thought. Maybe they'll let The DCEU grow on it's own without so much of themselves(Warner Bros.) involved.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

What ever gave you that idea? "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 "

@MartyMcFly read this....

would Josh have used Batflek .... or the new guy

Joss Whedon is no longer directing Batgirl and regardless of whether or not the explanation for his departure is accurate, some new details have surfaced in regards to his plans for the movie revolving around Barbara Gordon. According to Variety, Whedon was looking to adapt "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!" That story was the title of Detective Comics Vol. 1 #359, the debut of Batgirl in the comics.

The issue revolved around the youngster suiting up for the first time and aiding Batman and Robin as they took down Killer-Moth and his Moth-Men. Regardless of whether or not he would have been the big bad, Whedon was clearly planning to tell the character's origin story and the first time she suited up as the hero. That would have presumably meant appearances from Batman and Jim Gordon.

Most fans assumed that the movie would pick up with an older Barbara after she's recovered from being shot by The Joker but Whedon was clearly envisioning a younger take on the character which would have served as an introduction. No matter where the project goes from here, it's going to be interesting seeing how she's brought to the big screen and which iteration of Batgirl we get

 

[Norrin Radd]

 

[mr x]

Let roxann dawson do it.

She's ready for the big screen.

 

[Kings County]

nightwing should come before this

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

 

[Still FloW]

And Whedon is headed to Netflix most likely unless he wants Feige all up in the cut again

thank goodness this fakkit is out..

get Dee Rees or Ava Duverney this.. a Black female director helming this will give it the buzz and hype enough for it to be a success ala Wonder Woman plus the climate alone we're in ''black female director'' is a catch already

 

[NZA]

when you realize the irony that WW and aquaman are probably going to be the only good movies out of this company...

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

thank goodness this fakkit is out..

get Dee Rees or Ava Duverney this.. a Black female director helming this will give it the buzz and hype enough for it to be a success ala Wonder Woman plus the climate alone we're in ''black female director'' is a catch already

Love Ava to death and while I'm all for more Black female directors getting major looks, she deserves way better than to be brought in just because Whedon couldn't get his shyt together.

 

[Dominic Brehetto]

Snyder liking that of course popped up articles about it all over and now patty Jenkins liked that

So maybe there's some truth to the rumours of people not being a fan of joss at dc because clay enos also liked it and he's a dc/wb guy as well

 

[Norrin Radd]

'Batgirl' Movie Back On, Now With 'Bumblebee' Writer (Exclusive)

Joss Whedon left the Batgirl movie project, the studio is moving ahead on developing a new film project based on the DC Entertainment heroine.

Christina Hodson, who wrote the upcoming Transformers spinoff Bumblebee, has been tapped to pen a new script featuring Barbra Gordon, the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon.

Barbra Gordon is the most established version of the character, who was initially introduced in 1961 as Betty Kane. But the character was revamped in 1967 when television executives wanted to attract a female audience to the Batman TV series, then faltering in its third season. Yvonne Craig played the character whose last live-action big-screen appearance was with Alicia Silverstone in Joel Schumacher's 1997 movie Batman & Robin (the character makes a CG cameo in Ready Player One).

Whedon came on to the Batgirl project with great fanfare last year. Fans were excited that the female empowerment icon, second only to Wonder Woman in the DC stable, would be in the hands of the creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But by February of this year, Whedon, by his own account, had failed to come up with a story.

Hodson wrote the 2017 Warner Bros. thriller Unforgettable, which starred Rosario Dawson and Katherine Heigl, and has been a player in a couple of writers rooms, for Transformers (which led to her nabbing the Bumblebeegig) and Ology, the franchise Paramount is developing based on the YA fictional encyclopedias from Templar Publishing

Hodson has already written the Batgirl character, having helped to develop a feature project based on the all-female crime-fighting group Birds of Prey.

 

[hostsamurai]

'Batgirl' Movie Back On, Now With 'Bumblebee' Writer (Exclusive)

They could make a lot of money at the Chinese market if they introduce cassandra cain as the batgirl.

Bruce even adopted her and I like her storylines and her potential for future bat family films.

Still would be a huge risk. Barbara Gordon is a more established name. But I reckon if you ask ten random people 2/3 would say batgirl is Barbara Gordon.

She isn't as synonymous with her character as Bruce Wayne or dikk Grayson.

 

[Bryan Danielson]

They could make a lot of money at the Chinese market if they introduce cassandra cain as the batgirl.

Bruce even adopted her and I like her storylines and her potential for future bat family films.

Still would be a huge risk. Barbara Gordon is a more established name. But I reckon if you ask ten random people 2/3 would say batgirl is Barbara Gordon.

She isn't as synonymous with her character as Bruce Wayne or dikk Grayson.

If they could make a lot of money...... then it wouldn’t be a huge risk

Martha

 

[Norrin Radd]

Batgirl Movie to Be Directed by ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Filmmakers – The Hollywood Reporter