One doesn’t merely shelve a film with a $220 million budget–even when the star is garnering the flawed sort of publicity. Regardless of rumors, The Flash was by no means going to get the Batgirl remedy, in keeping with producer (and sister to director Andy Muchietti), Barbara Muchietti, in an interview with Leisure Weekly.
In August 2022, Warner Bros. Discovery was nonetheless a newly-merged group, and executives had been making lots of selections about present and future content material on the Max platform, then nonetheless known as HBO Max. Two occasions passed off in very shut proximity; the studio instantly canned Batgirl regardless that it had completed filming and featured fan-favorite casting together with Brendan Frasier and Michael Keaton. On the identical time, Ezra Miller’s ongoing authorized troubles got here to a head. Chatter about Miller’s superhero movie being shelved started to flow into whilst Miller entered remedy.
When requested straight if there was “official worry of the film being canceled,” Muchietti stated “Under no circumstances. No. That was by no means actual.”
Miller was arrested a number of instances in Hawaii in April 2022, together with accusations of grooming a minor (which the person, now an grownup, says are false). In addition they pleaded responsible to illegal trespass in Vermont, and appeared to choke a lady at a bar in Iceland in a video that made the rounds on-line. The Muchietti siblings and DC Studios bosses have voiced assist for Miller’s restoration within the months since.
The Flash stars Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Sasha Calle, Ben Affleck, and Michael Shannon, and hits theaters on June 16.
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