Quite a popular character during the Silver era thanks to her presence in the media, Barbara has a tumultuous history, filled with violence and tragedy but also reinvention and successes and love.įollowing the events of Alan Moore’s Killing Joke, where the Joker paralyzed her from the waist down with a gunshot, Barbara lost everything and was changed forever. She began her career as Batgirl, working close to Batman and the first Robin. As she was the by-product of the Adam-West Television show, following a request by Schwartz who wanted a new female counterpart to Batman, she was introduced into the television series in September of that same year, in the season 3 premiere of Batman.īarbara Joan Gordon is the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon and one of the most female iconic vigilante super-hero in the DC Universe. But to be fair, I'm not a Hollywood exec, so 'taxes' seems as legit as anything else.Created by television producer William Dozier, editor Julius Schwartz, writer Gardner Fox, and artist Carmine Infantino, Barbara Gordon first appeared in the pages of Detective Comics #359 published in January 1967 as Batgirl. Variety's speculation on the 'real' reason the film is being ghosted makes even less sense. 'Shelving a completed work, still in post-production, and apparently not suffering creatively according to close sources, seems like a pretty expensive write-off.

'According to today's bombshell news, the film is being buried ENTIRELY, which makes little sense for a $90 million project that was, for intents and purposes, done and done,' Beatty continued. 'From the reveals, it looked as if BATGIRL borrowed liberally from all aspects of Batgirl's comic book history, including BATGIRL: YEAR ONE and the NEW 52 iteration of Batgirl popularized by fellow writer Gail Simone.'

'Since production began in Glasgow, Scotland last year, I've been following all of the scoops and rumors related to the film, mainly because star Leslie Grace quoted my own BATGIRL: YEAR ONE on social media when she unveiled the official Batgirl costume, and set photos hinted that the film was drawing upon BATGIRL: YEAR ONE in thematic inspiration AND some major plot-points,' Beatty's post reads in part.

Batgirl by Scott Beatty