The Gotham vigilante was patronised in The Lego Batman Movie, paralysed in The Killing Joke and underwritten in Batman and Robin. Will fans never get to see Gail Simone’s nuanced and modern version of the character?
Are they really cancelling Batgirl? Who does that, given the troubled history of Barbara Gordon’s Gotham vigilante in comics and on the big screen?
These are the questions DC fans will be asking this week after it was reported that Warner Bros is declining to release a nearly completed movie by the Ms Marvel directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, and with Leslie Grace in the title role, despite the film being in post-production. Apparently it’s all part of a massive tax write down.
