"Batgirl," the DC film that completed production but was ultimately shelved, remains a hot topic among fans. Recently, J.K. Simmons, who played Commissioner Gordon in the movie, reflected on the film's controversial cancellation during an interview on the "Happy Sad Confused" podcast, admitting he was not pleased to see the project abandoned.
Simmons first portrayed Commissioner Gordon in Zack Snyder's "Justice League" and later joined "Batgirl," where he worked alongside Michael Keaton, who reprised his role as Batman. Despite completing filming, the movie was never released, and Simmons himself hasn't even seen the final cut.
Addressing the situation, Simmons stated, "It's really weird. Apparently, there was a test screening audience that saw it, and you know, it wasn't a situation where the test audience gave it terrible scores or anything like that. It was clearly some kind of business decision... When 'Batgirl' came along, being able to be a part of Batgirl's origin story was an exciting thing."
When asked if he felt the project might fail during production, he replied, "We had a lot of fun making it, and you know, we thought it was going to be a fun superhero movie."
DC Studios co-CEO Peter Safran previously stated that the film was "unreleasable," explaining, "That film was unreleasable, and there are a lot of things that can happen. And I actually think that David Zaslav and the team made a very bold and courageous decision to cancel it because it would have hurt DC, and it would have hurt the people involved."