Batgirl managers blocked from accessing their work

After receiving news that Warner Bros. Discovery has canceled their film late in production, bat girl directors Adel Elaraby and Bilal Falah found that they had already lost full access to the film they had been working on for so long. According to a new interview, Falah tried it Record even a few shots on their smartphones after telling them that HBO Max Not going forward with the movie. However, the directors discovered that the servers containing the work they did were already closed – meaning they were shut down bat girl It wasn’t destroyed, all the people who worked on the movie had absolutely nothing to show for it.

Across SkipWhen asked if they still had some footage from the film, Elaraby and Falah answered in the negative and that the studio blocked their access to the production servers. No, we have nothing! Adil called me and said, “Come on, shoot some stuff on your cellphone.” Falah said: I went to the server and everything was blocked.

Elaraby also said they have been informed of the decision bat girlThe cancellation was due to a change in management strategy and was not due to talent or the progress the film was making. The directors acknowledge that the movie still needs a lot of work – even if they get the footage from the servers, there’s no way they’ve been able to create a movie that matches their original vision of what they’ve finished so far (not that Warner Bros. Discovery’s discovery will allow such a release ).

Falah said he couldn’t believe what was happening, and with good reason: This kind of cancellation is unprecedented. When $90 million is already spent on the film, scrapping the remaining production to save some dollars on a small tax credit still feels amazingly myopic. Both directors still hope the movie will end and be released someday…we just hope they see their work again.

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