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Batgirl

November 2022

  • Artwork by Tula Lotay, the pen-name of English comic book writer Lisa Wood, who also founded the comics convention, Thought Bubble.

    Pow! Why female writers are a top draw in the world of comics

    As 15,000 fans gather in Yorkshire this weekend, authors tell how the male domination of the genre was broken

October 2022

  • Dwayne ‘the Rock’ Johnson as Black Adam.

    Batgirl axed, The Flash floundering – can Black Adam turn things round for DC’s troubled superheroes?

    Any company with characters like Batman and Wonder Woman should be laughing all the way to the bank. So why are DC and its owner Warner Bros struggling with so many projects?

August 2022

  • Leslie Grace as Batgirl in the cancelled DC film

    ‘Secret’ screenings of cancelled Batgirl movie being held by studio – reports

  • Tim Burton’s Superman Lives with Nicolas Cage will never be seen.

    Forget Batgirl, where’s Superman Lives? The inside stories of Hollywood’s biggest abandoned films

  • ‘Ms Marvel was a wonderful show’ … Kevin Smith.

    Kevin Smith: ‘It’s an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina Batgirl movie’

  • Leslie Grace as Batgirl in the cancelled DC Comics film.

    The Batgirl you’ll never see: why some films disappear for ever

  • Week in geek
    Bad luck Batgirl: the cancellation of the DC superhero’s film is only her latest misfortune

  • Batgirl star Leslie Grace thanks fans for ‘love and belief’ following film’s cancellation

  • Batgirl directors respond to surprise axing of film: ‘We still can’t believe it’

  • Tax concerns axed Batgirl, but studios will suffer if they become too cynical

    Peter Bradshaw

  • 3D mermaids, CobraGator and Louis CK: the never-released films Batgirl will join in Hollywood’s vault of shame

  • ‘Irredeemable’ Batgirl movie unexpectedly cancelled despite being in final stages

January 2022

  • Members of the public walk through the set of Batgirl, currently being filmed in Glasgow

    Glasgow becomes Gotham for Batgirl as Scottish film industry booms

    Culture minister says country is at a ‘critical mass of screen production’ that will keep jobs in Scotland

February 2018

  • ‘Strong enough and smart enough’ … Yvonne Craig as TV’s Batgirl Barbara Gordon in 1967.

    Week in geek
    After Black Panther and Wonder Woman, Batgirl needs a female director

    Joss Whedon’s exit from the Batman spin-off offers an opportunity to repeat the successes of recent superhero movies helmed by diverse directors

April 2017

  • Zoe Williams

    Superhero films need a liberal reboot. Batgirl to the rescue

    Zoe Williams
    Joss Whedon has been lined up to direct a Batgirl movie. He could reconnect the genre with the fight for justice against corporate evil

March 2017

  • Joss Whedon, who’s bringing Batgirl to the big screen.

    Joss Whedon to direct first ever Batgirl film

    The Avengers director to move from Marvel to DC as writer, director and producer of the film, which will feature characters from the world of Gotham
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