Leslie Grace reveals new behind-the-scenes look at her costume for scrapped Batgirl movie - Daily Mail

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Batgirl earlier the daze kapow! Leslie Grace reveals superhero look from $90M movie that was SCRAPPED amid rumors it was a 'huge disappointment' and the 'costumes looked cheap'

By Jarret Thomas Sackman and Eve Buckland For Dailymail.Com

Published: 22:54 EST, 2 January 2023 | Updated: 00:02 EST, 3 January 2023

Leslie Grace gave societal media a glimpse of what appeared to beryllium her last costume for Batgirl erstwhile she posted a 2022 item reel to Instagram connected Monday.

The In the Heights star, 27, included galore behind-the-scenes moments from the accumulation of the scrapped superhero film, which was shelved by Warner Bros. past year, shocking Hollywood.

Rumors of mediocre trial screenings emerged aft the workplace pulled the plug, with peculiar attraction being paid to the costumes looking 'cheap.'

Before the axe: Leslie Grace, 27, gave societal media a glimpse of what appeared to beryllium her last costume for Batgirl erstwhile she posted a 2022 item reel to Instagram connected Monday

Peace out: The In the Heights prima included galore behind-the-scenes moments from the accumulation of her scrapped superhero film, which was shelved by Warner Bros. past year, shocking Hollywood 

'Thank u for teachin' me, 2022,' wrote Grace, captioning her Batgirl-filled item reel. 'You were singular successful galore ways that volition enactment with me. My gratitude and emotion for beingness is overmuch deeper acknowledgment to the experiences you brought me.'

'I instrumentality your lessons with maine arsenic we part,' she concluded. 'Here's to galore much stories to tell, memories to make, and emotion to springiness successful 2023.'

The heartbreaking cancellation of Batgirl came aft Leslie had mostly filmed her starring relation arsenic the titular superhero.  

Production connected the $100 cardinal task was astir implicit erstwhile the workplace scrapped its merchandise connected HBO Max, reportedly owed to a operation of mediocre trial screenings and originative accounting strategies. 

What could've been: The histrion included aggregate glimpses of her purple and yellowish Batgirl armor. Rumors of mediocre trial screenings emerged aft the workplace pulled the plug connected the film, with peculiar attraction being paid to the costumes looking 'cheap'

Gracious: 'Thank u for teachin' me, 2022,' wrote Grace, captioning her Batgirl-filled item reel. 'You were singular successful galore ways that volition enactment with me. My gratitude and emotion for beingness is overmuch deeper acknowledgment to the experiences you brought me'

Hard astatine work: Leslie shared a postulation of snippets showed each of the effort that she enactment into the role

The filmmakers were told the determination came down to a 'purchase accounting' maneuver disposable to Warner Bros. due to the fact that the workplace had changed hands earlier successful 2022.

It allowed the recently formed Warner Bros. Discovery to not person to transportation its losses guardant arsenic it tries to pare down its $3 cardinal successful debt, according to Deadline.

The cardinal storyline would person revolved astir Grace's Batgirl arsenic she battled Brendan Fraser's villain called Firefly – a antheral who turns to a beingness of transgression aft helium is fired from his job, loses his wellness security and tin nary longer attraction for his sick wife. 

But according to those who person seen the scrapped flick, it was a 'huge disappointment' with subpar costumes.

Collider Editor-In-Chief Steven Weintraub tweeted: 'Spoke to radical that saw #Batgirl, and they said it was a immense disappointment. Also that the costumes looked cheap.'

Heartbreaker: The heartbreaking cancellation of Batgirl came aft Leslie had mostly filmed her starring relation arsenic the titular superhero

Friendly superhero: The prima intelligibly enjoyed her clip connected acceptable and made friends with the formed and crew

Even though the effect was possibly little than stellar, Leslie's Instagram station highlighted each of the effort that she and the unit enactment into making the shelved film.

Multiple snippets of the histrion doing stunt enactment filled her reel and she is often glimpsed successful her costume of purple and yellowish armor that is somewhat antithetic from promotional images.   

'It's tragic,' declared Brendan Fraser, speaking to Variety about the film's shocking cancellation. 'It doesn't engender spot among filmmakers and the studio.'

'Leslie Grace was fantastic,' helium lamented. 'She's a dynamo — conscionable a spot-on performer.'

A immense disappointment: According to those who person seen the scrapped flick, it was a 'huge disappointment' with subpar costumes. Collider Editor-In-Chief Steven Weintraub tweeted, 'Spoke to radical that saw #Batgirl, and they said it was a immense disappointment. Also that the costumes looked cheap'

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