| Batgirl | |
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| Directed by | Adil El Arbi Bilall Fallah |
| Screenplay by | Christina Hodson |
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| Produced by | Kristin Burr |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | John Mathieson |
| Edited by | Martin Walsh |
| Music by | Natalie Holt |
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| 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. 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. The film was produced by DC Films for the streaming service HBO Max and was intended to be an installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
Development of a Batgirl feature film began in March 2017 with Joss Whedon attached to write and direct, 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 as scheduled due to the company's cost-cutting measures and a refocus on theatrical releases.