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Warner Brothers has a Batgirl movie coming out correction. Warner Brothers had a Batgirl movie coming out.

Warner Brothers spent $90 million dollars so far on this Batgirl movie, and the Batgirl movie was going to be the first Warner Brothers movie with a trans-gender leading character.

And now they're just going to shelve the movie, apparently destroy the footage. The actor Ivory Aquino just wrote an open Twitter thread to the head of Warner Brothers.

Dear Mr. Zazlab, I just read an article on the Hollywood Reporter about supposed funeral screenings of Batgirl, and the possibility afterwards that the film footage would be destroyed.

If this is the case, please reconsider this. It's the movie, apparently, so bad that not only are they willing to burn $90 million, they're going to burn the footage just so that it never gets out at all.

But the idea of this is not only to help me make sense of this, it's not only a really high level, extremely insightful cultural critic, but also a comic book mogul himself.

That would be Eric July. Eric, thank you for coming on the show.

I appreciate you having me back, Michael.

So, Eric, I want to get to you in just a second, because since we last spoke, you have become a major comic book mogul with millions and millions of dollars in non-woke comic book sales.

So, we'll get to that in a second. First, you've got to help me make sense of this. I don't follow the comic book movies. I don't really follow comic books.

I certainly don't follow the Warner Brothers internal politics. So, I didn't know that there was going to be this Batgirl movie.

The trade papers are really whining about this. They say Batgirl won't be released in cinemas or on HBO Max.

The $19 million movie was reportedly close to completion when they decided to shelve it and it features the DC Comics first transgender character.

Seems to me there's some correlation there. Am I correct?

You are somewhat correct. So, with the new transfer of power that we have over there at Warner's because AT&T sold off there entertainment assets.

You have that Warner discovery merger. New CEO has come in and those that new team of leadership.

They've axed and shelved a lot of different things and one of those of course were Batgirl.

I think this is very significant mainly because, yeah, of course, nobody was really interested in.

I don't know how they managed to spend $90 million on that in the first place. That to me is impressive.

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