Joss Whedon’s Batgirl project has turned into a sequel of the last time he tried to bring one of Warner Bros. super heroines to the big screen. The director dropped out of the film, citing story differences.
“Batgirl is such an exciting project, and Warners/DC such collaborative and supportive partners, that it took me months to realize I really didn’t have a story,” Whedon said in a statement, thanking Geoff Johns and Warners Picture Group president Toby Emmerich, for being “so understanding when I… uh, is there a sexier word for ‘failed’?”
Whedon, who had tremendous success with Marvel’s first two Avengers movies, helped finish post-production on Justice League after the original director, Zack Snyder, took a leave in the wake of his daughter’s suicide. But his original experience with Warner Bros. was less than the stuff of a proper hero’s journey: Whedon had tried and failed to get a Wonder Woman movie off the ground a decade before director Patty Jenkins managed to bring the Amazonian warrior to the big screen.
Reports are circulating that in the wake of changing attitudes in Hollywood, Warner Bros. is seeking a woman to helm a Batgirl movie.
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