Leslie Grace as Batgirl. (Warner Bros.)Warner Bros’ recent announcement that Batgirl has been thoroughly, unequivocally, comprehensively shelved came as quite a shock.While it wasn’t exactly one of the studio’s higher profile DCEU titles (it was actually planned as a feature for streaming platform HBO Max), this was still a hefty production, with a reported $90 million price tag and parts for a returning Michael Keaton as Batman and JK Simmons as Commissioner Gordon.While we’re used to studios rethinking the release plans for a movie (Coming 2 America, Da 5 Bloods and Borat 2 were all originally earmarked for the big screen, only to premiere on streaming), this is a rare thing for a studio to completely kill a movie.Read more: Leslie Grace thanks fans for support over BatgirlSo, there won’t be any multiplex release for Batgirl, nor will it have a life on streaming or DVD. Batgirl, to paraphrase Monty Python, ‘is no more, it has ceased to be’.Rare it is, then, but not unique. There are plenty of movies that were made, completed and yet, for a multitude of reasons, are still gathering dust on a shelf somewhere.Here are just some of the movies shelved by Hollywood.The Fantastic Four (1992)Predating Tim Story’s Fantastic Four feature by 11 years is… Click below to read the full story from Yahoo Movies UK
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Batgirl and other movies that Hollywood doesn’t want you to see
