“Batgirl” Was Just Shelved Despite Being Nearly Complete — Here Are 11 Other Movies That Will Never See The Light Of Day
Hannah Marder
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Release <i>Batgirl,</i> you cowards!!!!
“Batgirl” Was Just Shelved Despite Being Nearly Complete — Here Are 11 Other Movies That Will Never See The Light Of Day
Recently, news broke that upcoming DC film Batgirl has been scrapped completely.
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The B-movie was made in 1992–93 and slated to premiere in January 1994 — but then Marvel Entertainment exec Avi Arad, who wanted to one day create a larger-scale version of Fantastic Four, paid Eichinger to shelve the project. Rumors abounded that Eichinger never planned to actually release that film, with Stan Lee saying this was true, but Eichinger denied this. However, Eichinger did work with Marvel and Fox to eventually produce 2005’s Fantastic Four.
20th Century Fox / courtesy Everett CollectionYou can watch a trailer for the 1994 version here:
The Lost Media Wiki / Via youtube.comComedian Harry Shearer, who saw the rough cut, said, “This movie is so drastically wrong, its pathos and its comedy are so wildly misplaced, that you could not, in your fantasy of what it might be like, improve on what it really is.”
BBC South Today / Via youtube.comYou can read the plot on Wikipedia, but I’ll give you the short version: An untalented clown drunkenly rants about Hitler, so he gets sent to a concentration camp. He brags about being a clown, and the other prisoners laugh at him, but he finds some Jewish children who enjoy his performances. He’s forbidden from performing by guards, who then kill his only friend. They then use the clown to help get children on trains to Auschwitz and into gas chambers. Despondent, the clown stays in the gas chambers to die with the children.
…yeah. Some pretty bleak stuff. Did I mention this movie is supposed to be a dark comedy?
Bits of the film have been leaked online over the years, but the rough cut has not. Lewis did provide some footage to the Library of Congress, but barred them from releasing it until 2024 — and it is not a complete copy of the film. If you want to learn more about the film, you can watch a BBC feature on it below.
Carl Court / Getty ImagesBeyond just the fact of Spacey starring, his character was attempting to seduce a younger male character, and there were a number of other scenes that would’ve taken on a darker meaning in the wake of the allegations.
Obtained by BuzzFeed News5. Similarly, Louis CK’s film I Love You, Daddy was also scrapped after he admitted to masturbating in front of several women without their consent. Not only because he created the film, but also because of the film’s subject matter. In the film, CK’s character’s daughter attracts the attention of a much-older director who is a suspected pedophile.
Circus King Films / Jax MediaThere is also apparently a scene where a character pretends to masturbate in front of other characters, the same crime CK was accused of. CK ended up buying the rights to the film back, so it’s possible it could one day be released.
You can watch a trailer here:
Gilbert Carrasquillo / Getty Images7. But there are other films that are scrapped without these sorts of issues with actors, and sometimes for no reason at all. Brendan Fraser certainly has had bad luck with unreleased films. His 2004 film Big Bug Man — which also featured Marlon Brando in his last role before his death — was shelved for unknown reasons a few years later. It’s unknown how much work was completed on the film, though Brando’s recording was complete. Storyboards can be found online and seen in part below.
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This is listed as a trailer for the film, but it could be fan-made.
Evening Standard / Hulton Archive / Getty ImagesAdvance reviews were actually pretty favorable, though it seems the writer of the memoir it was based on, as well as some of the other real-life people featured, weren’t thrilled with it. Above, you can see the memoir’s writer and co-editor of Oz Richard Neville with his girlfriend Louise Ferrier, who was also featured in the film.
11. And finally, one old example is the Charlie Chaplin film A Woman of the Sea. Chaplin was reportedly unhappy with the way the film came out, and at an initial screening for reviewers, they agreed — so Chaplin decided against releasing it. He later destroyed the prints for tax purposes, in a sort of old-school version of what’s happening with Batgirl.
Silver Screen Collection / Getty ImagesThis still is from The Circus, as no prints of A Woman of the Sea survived.
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