While on the press tour for his film, rental familyBrendan Fraser had some choice words to share about the DC Studios live-action bat girl Warner Bros. was supposed to release the film, but they did not, so the film was canceled as a tax exemption. Despite years being separated from the fact, Fraser’s understandably difficult feelings about the entire incident still ring true as something that deserves attention.
Fraser talks to The Associated Press about the state of his career “Brenance” and the current state of Hollywood, soon to return. Mummy The actor is still feeling quite raw bat girl Being put on hold. Fraser was considered to co-star in the film with Leslie Grace’s Barbara Gordon as the pyrotechnic villain, Firefly.
Fraser told the AP, “A whole film. I mean, there were four floors of production in Glasgow. I was sneaking into the art department just to find out.” “The tragedy of it is that there’s a generation of little girls who don’t have any heroines to look up to and they say, ‘She looks like me.’ I mean, Michael Keaton came back as Batman. Batman!”
He continued: “The product – I’m sorry, the ‘content’ – is being marketed to such an extent that it’s more valuable to burn it and get insurance than to put it on the market. I mean, with respect, we could ruin ourselves.”
Of course, this isn’t the first time Fraser has spoken out bat girl There is a lot of commotion on the press tour for a different film. Namely, when discussing Darren Aronofsky whale (for which he won an Oscar for his spectacular return to cinema), Fraser said nothing about how the whole situation failed to build trust between the studio and the filmmakers.
“It doesn’t build trust between filmmakers and studios,” Fraser told Variety, echoing his sentiment today about how “sad” the entire incident was.
Hopefully Warner Bros. hasn’t just had to endure the endless public embarrassment of fumbling for a pitch over the years. batman beyond Animated film in the style of Into the Spider-Verse (we’re still angry about that) but also bat girl-A film that has actually been finished and is kept in a vault – the same type of bullying that would result from a revival coyote vs acme,
Until then, let’s all take solace in the karmic justice that Warner Bros. is in its “nobody wants me” era, after all its skillful maneuvering of making and not making a few promising comic book movies before asking James Gunn to bail on them so no one wants to buy it.
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