Batgirl (film)

Batgirl
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Directed by	Adil El Arbi Bilall Fallah
Screenplay by	Christina Hodson
Based on	Batgirl by Gardner Fox Carmine Infantino
Produced by	Kristin Burr
Starring	Leslie Grace J. K. Simmons Jacob Scipio Brendan Fraser Michael Keaton Ivory Aquino
Cinematography	John Mathieson
Edited by	Martin Walsh
Music by	Natalie Holt
Production companies	DC Films Burr! Productions
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$90 million

Batgirl is an unreleased American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Barbara Gordon / Batgirl. Produced by Burr! Productions and DC Films for the streaming service HBO Max, it was intended to be an installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah from a screenplay by Christina Hodson, the film starred Leslie Grace as Batgirl, alongside J. K. Simmons, Jacob Scipio, Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, and Ivory Aquino.

Development of a Batgirl feature film began with Joss Whedon in March 2017, but he left the project a year later. Hodson was hired to write a new script in April 2018, with El Arbi and Fallah hired to direct in May 2021 when the film was confirmed as an HBO Max original. Grace was cast that July, followed by additional castings—including Keaton reprising his role of Bruce Wayne / Batman from Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992)—and filming took place in Glasgow, Scotland, from November 2021 to March 2022. In August 2022, DC Films and HBO Max parent Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced that, while the film had entered post-production, the studio no longer planned to release it in 2022 as scheduled due to the company's cost-cutting measures and a refocus on theatrical releases.