Brendan Fraser expresses his dismay over ‘Batgirl’ decision

Brendan Fraser has recently expressed his disappointment over Warner Bros.’ decision to shelve Batgirl.

The Mummy actor shares his thoughts on movie cancellation about the current state of Hollywood.

“The product— I’m sorry ‘content’—is being commodified to the extent that it’s more valuable to burn it down and get the insurance on it than to give it a shot in the marketplace,” says the 56-year-old in a new interview with Associated Press.

Brendan remarks, “I mean, with respect, we could blight itself.”

The outlet reported that Batgirl, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, was next installment in the DC Extended Universe.

AP shared that production did take place in Scotland between November 2021 and March 2022, but now in post-production, Warner Bros. announced that it would not release the movie as scheduled.

“A whole movie… I mean, there were four floors of production in Glasgow. I was sneaking into the art department just to geek out,” explains The Whale actor.

Brendan pointed out that the “tragedy of that is that there’s a generation of little girls who don’t have a heroine to look up to and go, ‘She looks like me’”.

“Grace would have been the first Batgirl to headline her own film and one of just a handful of women to get a standalone superhero movie in the male-dominated genre,” adds the actor.