Director Kevin Smith addresses the cancellation of Leslie Grace's Batgirl movie with an honest critique of Warner Bros.'s decision to cancel the film. The director has worked on a number of DC Comics projects, including comic book stories, video games, television, and animation projects. Batgirl would have featured Grace, Michael Keaton, Brendan Frasier, JK Simmons, and Ivory Aquino.
"It's an incredibly bad look to cancel the Latina Batgirl movie. I don't give a s--t if the movie was absolute f--king dogs--t man, and I guarantee you that it wasn't. The two directors who directed that movie did a couple of episodes of Ms. Marvel, and that was a wonderful f--king show, y'know. Great looking and they had more money to do Batgirl than they had to do an episode of Ms. Marvel and stuff...
He hasn't been honest in years. There's *nothing* that any studio does that he doesn't pretend to like or be a fan of.
said by the guy who lied to all fanbase of Masters of the Universe. Shut up white man
Oh i bet it definitely was.
Anybody who uses the phrase 'it's a bad look' is being anything but honest. That's just a form of emotional manipulation.
Smith Haha hes a bloody sellout. Turns He Man into the Liela Haircut show then spouts trash. It was cancelled cus it was garbage not because who was in it!! Zaslav is a smart man knowing woke makes no money! Much like the shills at SR . Though one gets a giggle from u lot!
They get people that don’t get the characters running the studios and don’t care about the audiences either. They aren’t getting my money until it’s resolved.
Man's been releasing dogturd films for years, so his opinion's worthless.
I agree canceling the movie sucks. But saying it doesn’t matter even if it is a steaming pile of 💩 doesn’t ring true. People are still complaining about Green Lantern.
Why bring up her race? I’m a Latino and an accountant, if someone said “you shouldn’t fire that shitty accountant he’s Latino, it’s a bad look” I would feel very offended that my race was a determinant factor overshadowing the quality or lack thereof of my work.
ThomasComicTalk And who is this guy again? O come on they canceled it because it was bad. It’s time we see real super heroes not this sidekicks an villains movies. So lame. Grow up alevín whoever you are
Who gives a damn about his opinion
ThatKevinSmith ‘s balls fell off about 20 years ago. There’s nothing left of the guy. Now his whole career is just begging for approval by The Cult.
If it's such a bad look, then imagine how awful it must have been to go ahead and cancel the movie knowing that goobers like Kevin Smith would crawl out of the woodwork to criticize them for it.
Where was his Sympathy for these actors of color; hmmmm seems suspect to me😣
Forgive me if I don't take the word of a sellout who balled his eyes over every Disney Star Wars travesty and destroyed He-Man. I'm sure Latinas would rather have good movies representing them than a terrible one like Batgirl, otherwise, Zaslav wouldn't have canceled it.
Batgirl is not Latina. She's a Redhead. It's a bad look to race swap an established character for virtue signal points to a group of people who consider themselves as white as any other American.
who's paying him to say that?
Kevin Smith and honest don't belong in the same sentence.
Literally openly says it 'Herr derr don't cancel our token characters'
What a prize dick!
Guarantee? What is he putting up for collateral?
Says the guy who ruined He-Man.
It's an unfair analogy to compare a TV film against a potential blockbuster saying race and sex is the only value each had. Dozens of choices made by the previous management could've ruined the film, as in JL, so it's not a slight against on screen talent.
kevins face after watching the movie…
Kevin Smith is right
In contrast sony released Morbius and bombed twice If they wanted to they would- the just won’t let this movie come out
'I don't care if it was crap, put it out anyway' Well, now we know how Smith keeps his career alive.
Who gives a fuck what he thinks.. it was obvious why this film was made, Kevin even stated 1 reason in this quote and its a smart move them ditching it
I refuse to believe that WB canceled Batgirl purely on grounds of not being good enough when they thought Suicide Squad deserved to see the light of day.
Man, shuttup.
Go woke go broke
I wonder if he would have said the same thing about the green lantern movie? That movie was awful and legit is a stain on comic book movies no one ever let them forget it lol
Well its not his 90 million on the line
You could slap a batman label on a can of actual dogshit and Kevin Smith would cry talking how it's the best thing ever created.
Freaks hyper focusing on race yet again what a surprise
Did he watch it? Or is this another of this boneheaded takes.
I agree with his sentiments 100%. But also, Kev, baby, my man, it’s time to buy some tailored jackets. Or at least new ones.
Wouldn't it be an equally bad move it if were the Caucasian Bat girl movie?
How can you guarantee something you haven't seen?
Oh boy, I really miss the time when characters were just characters that were put in movies to tell a story regardless of their ethnicity and gender.
😴😴😴😴just accept the fact
From the guy who helped fucked up He-Man. He need to stay silent like his Bob character in “Clerks”. 🤦🏾♂️😔
This just had snydercut movement all over it. Just release the flick and we can get on with it. All I wanna know is if they're gonna follow through with setting up Cassandra Cain in BoP.
Of course how's He Man doing 😄
Smith doesn’t care if it was f—king dogs-it, but WB does. The studio was clear that cancelling it was about protecting the brand. Maybe if Smith cared about protecting his brand like WB he’d stop releasing dogs-it films.
Basically admitting we treat minorities to a different standard. Talk about 'not a good look'
This movie was gonna bomb
His words mean literally nothing 😂😂
Who honestly cares what Kevin Smith think?
His guarantee, eh?
Ah yes, let's waste money on a mediocre streaming only movie designed to erase work of others, when we could easily just cancel it and profit anyway. It's not like Leslie won't get any other roles.
You’d care if the movie was actually fucking dogshit if u went to go see it in theaters💀
And people wonder why Hollywood sucks now. Let’s only watch things bc of race, not quality.
How the FK you cancel and refuse to to show a product you spent $90 on ,and won't even put in on HBOMAX ,zaslav will regret it ,he's already get shit for his lack of minorities in his studio, now this ,anything to save a buck $$
The moment you tell me you don't care if the movie sucks you deserve no attention
No one cares what this fake comic book fan thinks.
Oh sure, Kevin is all about good looks. -pats He-man.-
It's not a 'Latina Batgirl movie' its a 'Batgirl movie'. The fact that he & Hollywood thinks the 'Latina' part is important is probably the reason the story was ignored and it turned out sh*te.
So movie's reason to be greenlighted is reduced only to being a Latina Batgirl? 🤦🏻♂️
Coming from the mf who made the he-man reboot... Nah, it was most likely shit....
yeah just like your woke he-man was not shit, adam spent more time dead than alive.
Are we all going to pretend that we are glad the Halle Barry Catwoman wasn’t cancelled? Starting a beautiful and talented woman of color, Catwoman remains unwatchably bad. So yeah, some things are better off dead.
I mean it was also a bad look when Whedon, Hamada, Emmerich, Sarnoff cut most POC from the Snyder Cut, massively cut Ray Fisher's roles in Justice League, cut him from Flash, cancelled the planned cyborg movie, kept Heard in Aquaman 2, have stayed quiet about Ezra Miller but 🤷♂️
Agreed. Mr Smith should probably direct the film himself. but with a Tusk-twist. Girl-Bat... scary sh|t.
It’s just stupid to not release Batgirl, from what Ive read the film was finished . They would have nothing to lose and everything to gain by releasing it.
อืม
shit was gonna be ass
We all know you don't care if a movie is good or not
'Its a He-Man show' - Kevin 'Liar' Smith
Wow the race card is the first thing everyone plays. I'm Hispanic and even I didn't jump to race card throwing.
Pretty sure her being a latina is not the reason why it got cancelled.
Nah it was just that bad
Progressives see straight white men as adults and women and minorities as children. It’s a “bad look” to them because they see it as taking a toy from a child, whereas everyone else just sees it as what it is, a company making a financial decision.
They release plenty of f--king dogs--t, why not this one?
Looooool le WB a insisté a tué le latino dans Suicide Squad mais personne n'a tapé de scandale comme vous le faite aujourd'hui, alors que le film est rincé. Arrêtez l'hypocrisie
Kevin has become a shill. People like Nerdrotics are far more honest & informative. Also, Batgirl is a B-grade character. Period. You seriously think for one minute Guardians (GotG) would have seen the light of day had Marvel taken so many blows at the box office? Hell No!
What the fuck do you know you thought the new he-man was a good idea
Smith shills for the worst and his cred is less than zero, tho I do believe he’s as woke as they come.
Well early screenings says otherwise. Also, maybe he should be worry about doing a better he man
What does Kevin Smith know about good movies?
Damn. I had some high hopes for the Batgirl movie. But if Kevin Smith guarantees that it wasn't bad, then it has to be bad. 😞
How did people not have this energy when Emmerich, Johns, Whedon, Sarnoff and Hamada were cool with removing people of colour from Justice League Ray Fisher complains about their toxic behaviour to this day but y'all won't even bat an eyelid Y'all on your own now..
She deserves to be in a good movie. A bad movie can ruin a career over night. Soft bigotry of low expectations.
Probably was
Oh piss off KevinSmith
Savitar1790 🤷♀️😂🤣😂✌
TyrantVicky What so studios now have to release crap. Come on! How embarrassing for them either way.
I'm actually not that upset about it
Why does her being a “Latina” matter? She is a person, her movie was deemed shit by the studio/IP owners. Get over it ThatKevinSmith
So he believes it should be immune to cancelation, regardless of how bad it was, because of race. Now that's an incredibly bad look.
It’s a bad look but it had to be done bc I think they’re gonna stray away from the Michael Keaton plot line that they were taking the DCEU down
Honeztly. Who cares what Kevin Smith thinks. He's a Hollywood sell out who posts pictures of his soy infused teary face all the time.
a good take from kevin smith? unheard of
If you are Hispanic and you need a movie to validate your existence, then you have some problems that poor batgirl cosplay aren’t going to solve.
First he should save his career and stop lyin to fans about his product.
Was he sobbing while he said it? He was, wasn’t he?
so it was shit then?
I’m glad they don’t need to ask that guy
how did people not have this energy for the Justice League
'Just like I guaranteed you that it was all about He-Man.'...
You don’t care about movie quality. Nice
He can’t talk shit considering how bad his interpretation of he-man that he did for Netflix 🤦♂️
It's a take I guess
Totally Disagree. Cancelling this movies show intent and desire from WB to be serious and focused on making the new project the beating heart of DC.
Kevin never met a bad superhero movie he didn’t defend. The guy lost his objectivity a long time ago.
So many experts who know more than Kevin Smith the film maker..
It's like Jaws but with a Moose 😜
She's black not Latina
'I don't give a s--t if the movie was absolute f--king dogs--t, man, and I guarantee you that it wasn't' tf is he trying to say lmao
It wouldn’t be any worst than most of DC live action out out
And that's part of the reasons that it should of been. They checked off every box but the one on making a good movie.
Stop with the race stuff, please!! The movie was bad and didn't meet the level of quality WBD wants for our Heroes... Let it go and move on..
After his crap attempts to rewrite He-Man, Kevin smith needs to shut up
NARRATOR: It turns out Kevin Smith was just high, and the movie was dogs—t
So fed up with movies of being woke these days
Bro dresses like a man-child
Says the guy caught blatantly lying about his 'He-man show not being about Teela but all about He-man'
I mean ThatKevinSmith is right in that guarantee cause entertainment/art is subjective so everything will always click with someone , guaranteed. 👊😎
If anyone trusts Kevin smith on movies I have beach front property in Hawaii for sale.
It was.
Seriously the movie was finished, how does having bigger catalogue even if it wasn't a great movie hurt your business? Just dumb, not to mention that as he says it's a bad look representation wise, if they cancel blue bettle and don't give any latino rep in the new plan i'm done
'I don't give a s--t if the movie was absolute f--king dogs--t.' And that, my friends, is how quickly a person can discredit their entire argument.
“The Latina Batgirl movie” why he say it like that? 😂 But I do wish they’ll just drop the movie and get it over with.
ReleaseBatgirl
Release the full script
ReleaseBatgirl
My take is that Discovery realized WB was a bad investment and now they need to find the money to make this a sellable thing to their investors and so they are taking all this tax credits to make up some cash to stay afloat by canceling all this projects at WB
Not everyone wants to waste money making shit movies
I doubt it could be worse than Catwoman, and even if they don’t want to go to theatres, they can at least do home and so dvd/bluray, on demand, and streaming.
Ethnicity this, race that... It was dog💩
Latina batgirl did he side that literally?
“I don’t care if it sucks” Proceeds to say it definitely didn’t suck like that still matters 🤨
At the end of the day, it's their money and they can do whatever they like with it. Also, the situation isn't cut and dry. Did he miss the merger that just took place? This project was stared by the old management and new management is under no obligation to release this film
I guarantee it was
So just because she’s Latina WBD is obligated to release this film?!? Ridiculous
Critique? That’s your typical liberal lapdog response…
This is so funny “i dont care if it’s bad i know it’s not bad” like bro shut up
How has his Masters of The Universe fared so far?
If Batgirl is was released and was horrible, it would not only hurt the brand, it would hurt the careers of the directors and of Leslie way more than not releasing it. No one is mentioning that part. Also they thought well enough of Blue Beetle that they changed it to theatrical
it’s a hard call✨
Would you rather see Keaton back in tv like movie (made for tv) or true cinematic feature like flash .?
This is why I believe ThatKevinSmith should be the executive producer for all future wbpictures DCComics films. He loves the source and what they birth. He has experience in universe building. Make it so!
How far this man has fallen. He's crying about not being able to see the woke Batgirl movie. They have to release it because it stars a Latina. Doesn't matter if it's terrible. What a terrible take.
'We can't cancel it because minority ' Clearly not a diversity hire
Common Kevin W
after the atrocious rendition of masters of the universe revelations he released he should keep his mouth shut forever.
It was dogshit
He would know dogshit movies after all
Unless Kevin Smith wants to lose millions of dollars on to a corporation that he will never direct anything again
Ehhh. It’s one movie and it is dog shit
Who..., cares?
Why are we even listening to Kevin Smith the guy who destroyed He-Man and made everything about Teela oh okay yeah we should definitely listen to his lame ass
Who cares about this guys opinion anymore
Kevin Smith hasn’t been relevant in twenty years. I don’t know why this guy still gets press, his movies were all middling save for Dogma.
CARTOONHOLLYWO1 lol, did he cry when he said this?
Man, he is channeling that 'fellow kids' look.
ian_snake
Anyone else feel like the backlash and infighting among Hollywood and the fans from the cancelation has done more damage than just releasing a bad Batgirl movie would have?
lol shut up Kevin going to love new WB
Quality over quantity but anyways let's appreciate future DC projects
They are trying to put out good content to restore DC's image... is that so difficult to understand?
So that's the new standard officially said out loud. It's color over quality. What a shame. Who cares what color, give us some good products. What a utter shame.
The latina Batgirl movie 😂
🤡🤡lol
The new guy at Warner should allow the public to decide if Batgirl is a hit or not.
thehonestfanboy He’s arguing for the sake of tokenism?
I agree with Kevin, just release it. Batgirl
Kevin Smith has a bad taste in film so I take it as a grain of salt when he says 'I guarantee you that it wasnt.'
for all the work WB has pushed out. i mean really how bad could this be. to not even do a slide into hbo max. kind of want to see the released product now. if anything to see if this is mystery science theatre quality or something else.
Kevin Smith 's opinion doesn't count, imo. He's a mediocre filmmaker at best.
I disagree, the film would have sucked ass. Also on the other hand, not cancelling it because she's Latina means favouring her film over others because of her ethnicity. That is also racist. Kevin Smith, you can be honest and still be thick, it's not a sign of intelligence.
I mean it’s common sense just put on HBO Max we the people should be the one to judge it .
Wow, what a controversial opinion 🙄
Meh. Identity politics never factor into weather or not I like something. Representation only matters if you are a race obsessed weirdo.
Who keeps asking him
The fact that she is Latina shouldn't have any relevance. If the movie was crap, it was crap regardless. ThatKevinSmith demonstrates the problem with Hollywood today. They are more focused on identity politics than telling good stories. That's why MOTU Revelation failed so bad.
Yep. PC for ya
Why do you mention Latina? So the movie is only reduced to race? Plot effects and hard work dont matter because the only positive thing of Batgirl is that she is played by a Hispanic? 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Virtue signal alert ⚠️
Look who is talking. The king of virtue signaling and butcher of He Man
If most of the post-production costs to finish it would have been on the crew's salaries, couldn't they just give the footage to some amateur filmmakers to complete for a much lower price? I'm sure there's plenty that would jump at the chance.
Him of all people saying they should release dog shit movies 😂 😂
Kevin Smith should know something about releasing absolute dog shit. But I do honestly feel bad about the cancellation of Batgirl.
Nobody & I mean Nobody should listen to what Kevin Smith has to say!
That's it. They need to release it and end this debate once and for all. The only way we'll know for sure if it was a dumpster fire is if we decide for ourselves. We usually do anyway.
who the fuck cares
Because Kevin Smith knows all about releasing dogshit movies
Completely naive. If the movie took 80-90 million to make and they still cancel, it must be a dumpster fire. Create and be original and stop being political, then maybe people would want to watch it. I heard the test screenings were laughable.
It has nothing to do with her being Latino. Leave politics out of this...
So Sick Of His Opinions on everything.
So it would have been ok to cancel it if the lead was white? Notice how many of these celebrities fight racism with racism?
It was obviously dogshit or they wouldn't have cancelled it. Why would you release garbage just because of the ethnicity of 1 actor?
Why do people make it about race/ethnicity as if thats the reason it got canceled?
Who?
Yeah And I agree with him 💯
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