Unedited Batgirl Movie Fight Scene Pulled Offline Just Hours After It Leaked on Social Media

An unedited combat country from the scrapped Batgirl movie was pulled offline aft it surfaced connected societal media connected March 19.

X / Twitter relationship DC Film News posted the now-deleted video astir 8pm Eastern clip and captioned the post: “A look down the scenes of the combat choreography for ‘BATGIRL’.” The caption besides credited stunt performers Emily Cartagena, Scott Rogers, and Stephen Dunlevy for their enactment successful the clip.

The earthy footage — which made nary effort to fell harness cables, intelligibly proving this clip was acold from finished — showed Leslie Grace arsenic Barbara Gordon, aka Batgirl, warring a radical of men successful a room, presumably an apartment.

Despite the men having an vantage successful size, she was acold from losing the fight. At 1 point, she smashed done a partition that led to a bath connected the different broadside wherever idiosyncratic was sitting connected the toilet, adding a splash of drama to the enactment scene.

Sadly, there’s adjacent to nary anticipation of ever seeing this country successful its last form. Nearly 3 years ago, Warner Bros. cancelled the merchandise of the Batgirl film, helmed by Ms. Marvel showrunners Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, amid restructuring 2 months prior.

Batgirl would person been adjacent connected the now-scrapped DCEU slate if Warner Bros. hadn't cancelled it, coming retired up of Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom and Joker: Folie à Deux.

WarnerMedia merged with Discovery Inc to go Warner Bros. Discovery successful April 2022, which is besides erstwhile David Zaslav — who was CEO of Discovery Inc anterior to the merger — became CEO of WBD. The determination to shelve the practically completed Batgirl movie garnered overmuch backlash wrong the manufacture and besides from the wide moviegoing public.

The movie, which was written by Birds of Prey writer Christina Hodson, was going to travel Gordon arsenic she balanced a treble beingness arsenic Gotham’s caput of constabulary Commissioner Gordon’s girl and a by-night vigilante. Alongside Grace, J.K. Simmons, Brendan Fraser, Michael Keaton, Ivory Aquino, and Jacob Scipico were besides acceptable to star.

Last year, Batman histrion Michael Keaton admitted helium was not each that bothered astir Warner Bros. deciding to scrap the merchandise of Batgirl. GQ asked Keaton whether helium recovered the destiny of Batgirl disappointing, considering helium reprised his iconic Batman relation other Leslie Grace's titular superhero. The abbreviated reply was "no." He was unfazed by the cancellation but did admit to feeling atrocious for the movie's directors, Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.

"No, I didn't attraction 1 mode oregon another. Big, fun, bully check," Keaton said while, according to the outlet, rubbing his fingers unneurotic successful a wealth motion resembling the enactment of clutching dollar bills.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.