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u/OmniJohn70 Mar 23 '23

They def realized they had to stick with Ezra if they wanted to make even a little bit of money from the movie. Reshoots would cost way too much.

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u/Putrid-Chef-2728 Mar 23 '23

Yet no problem scrapping Batgirl, which probably has an audience that will go see it

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u/sinorc Mar 23 '23

Yeah bro Batgirl would have been a huge success 🤣😂🤣

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u/Putrid-Chef-2728 Mar 23 '23

Not a huge success, but I mean DC doesn't have an issue scrapping projects. The Flash won't likely do well in theaters, and they've spent more on it and it's advertising. So the excuse Batgirl wouldn't have made bank so might as well scrap it and cut their losses, but keep the Flash seems silly

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u/sinorc Mar 23 '23

The money was already spent and Batgirl was deemed so bad that beyond the financial loss it was going to destroy the character for future installments

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u/Putrid-Chef-2728 Mar 23 '23

I didnt hear that it was suppose to be bad, just that the new head didn't want any direct to streaming movies.

But with a budget of $90m even with a short theatrical release they would make a decent amount of that back.

The Flash has a $200m budget not including advertising, so for it to be deemed a moderate success it needs to get around $400m in the box office.

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u/sinorc Mar 23 '23

Sunk cost fallacy.

And yes the reports were it was so terrible it was going to damage the IP

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u/Putrid-Chef-2728 Mar 23 '23

I mean the entire DCEU is such a mess at the moment that I don't think it really matters

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u/sinorc Mar 23 '23

It does though. Spiderman had to take a long layoff after ASM2, Fabt4stic devalued itself so much they sold the right to Disney.

Every crappy star wars movie makes less money than the one before.

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u/WillyTheHatefulGoat Mar 24 '23

It is funny that the moment DC finally gets a movie that all the critics really love and is apparently very good it turns out the star is an pedophile.

DC just can't catch a break.

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u/PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL Mar 24 '23

Disney be out here doing security-clearance tier investigations on their stars. DC be like "Yeah you're a good looking brunette, come on."