Brendan Fraser is out there working “The Whale” promotional circuit and scoring acclaim for his performance in the project.
Sadly one work of his that won’t score any reaction is one of his more recent jobs – the scrapped “Batgirl” film. Fraser spent months in Glasgow portraying the film’s villain, the pyromaniac Firefly who takes on Leslie Grace’s costumed heroine.
Speaking with Variety recently, Fraser discussed some more about the scale of the film and how Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision will have a ripple effect:
“It’s tragic. It doesn’t engender trust among filmmakers and the studio. Leslie Grace was fantastic. She’s a dynamo, just a spot-on performer.
Everything that we shot was real and exciting and just the antithesis of doing a straightforward digital all green screen thing. They ran firetrucks around downtown Glasgow at 3 in the morning and they had flamethrowers.
It was a big-budget movie, but one that was just stripped down to the essentials… Everything that Adil and Bilall shot felt real and exciting.”
The film, originally made to be shown on HBO Max, was deemed not commercial enough to retrofit as a theatrical release and was easier to take a tax write-off and shelve permanently.
