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Hello, no, I don't need to tell you again how much a fan I am of Jurassic Park,

but I'm also a big fan of massive movie flops like Heaven's Gate and Ishtar, which I've never seen.

But there's a new one to add to the list, Batgirl.

Today, Warner Bros announced that they've completed the film about Batman's

sidekick, but it's not going to be released anywhere, ever, prompting lots of speculation that it

must just be really, really bad. Let's try and get to the bottom of what's going on, because this

does not happen in the movie business very often, with Alison Wilmore, film critic at Vulture and New York

magazine.

Hi, Alison.

Hi, Adam.

How are you?

Good, thanks.

How are you?

I'm good.

They've just started doing road work, of course, right out in front of my apartment

building, so I'm hoping that it doesn't get picked up on the mic.

I hear just your voice, so it all sounds fine so far. Also, I mean, it would give it like a cool urban sort of

Gotham vibe, actually, wouldn't it? Right. Exactly. Gritty New York City. Exactly. In fact,

if you could just play some sound effects to that extent, that would be great.

You know, I'll get some sirens going. Exactly, exactly. So before we talk about it being ditched? What did we know about Batgirl as a product beforehand?

So Batgirl is, was supposed to be a film that was going to go direct to streaming. It was never originally intended to be a theatrical release like, say, the Batman with Robert

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