The Batgirl film will be directed by the team of Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, the duo who directed the 2020 film Bad Boys for Life.
According to information from The Hollywood Reporter, Arbi and Fallah to direct Batgirl movie starring Barbara Gordon. The film is planned as an HBO Max project, although we do not know without this will imply that the film will waive the theatrical release. In fact, recently Warner has had move on theatrical releases and HBO with Dune.
Christina Hodson, writer of Bumblebee and screenwriter on Birds of Prey and The Flash, will be in charge of writing the script for this Batgirl film. It should be remembered that in 2017, Joss Whedon was chosen to write and direct the Batgirl movie for Warner Bros, but resigned in 2018 claiming he couldn’t find the right story for the character.
Arbi and Fallah are known as the duo behind 2020’s Bad Boys For Life, a movie that reunited Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, and managed to raise more than 425 million dollars worldwide. In addition, they are directors and executive producers of the new serie de Ms. Marvel para Disney Plus.
Commenting on other news about the DC Universe, we remember that the animated Injustice movie could be on the way. There are still no official data, although everything indicates that this will be the case. We also don’t know if it will adapt the story from comics or video games.
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