Warner Bros. cancelled their best film for one stupid reason..

DC cancelled Batgirl but MORE IMPORTANTLY they cancelled Scoob!: Holiday Haunt??!

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00:00 intro
01:27 cost cutting
04:46 amendment 01
06:18 the Scoob sequel of my dreams
09:52 quality is irrellevant, actually
11:29 unleash the scoob-verse
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[tulokthebarbrarian]

Batgirl was canceled because the new CEO is actually David Zsasz in a mask and he canceled Scooby-Doo so they wouldn't unmask him

[comixproviderftw_]

The most messed thing about this is that it wasn’t even cancelled the middle of filming or even before production, the film was already wrapped up. Hell, imagine if you’re Micheal Keaton and you get to be Batman for the first time in over 30 years only to find out one of the two movies you worked on was just cancelled like that? Now it might happen to the Flash movie too, all thanks to Ezra Miller’s antics.

[highlander]

You're forgetting one very important teeny teeny tiny whiny little fact by not releasing it they take all that money and is considered a loss for taxes purposes.

[ShaunCKennedyAuthor]

Yes! We need an official Scooby-Doo movie with Scott as the show runner! Give him a blank check and absolute power, and watch the awesomeness unfurl!

[scottskene]

I, for one, would love to see James Gunn's Scoob-icide Squad 😄

[lingy]

Even if Scoob and Batgirl were terrible, I feel really bad for the cast and creators of those projects who put years of work into them and will never get to see their work come to fruition. Every movie no matter how bad has someone who likes it.
It also sets a really bad precedent that a creator could put years of work into a project and have it be completely scrapped meer months before the intended release to "protect the brand".
Ultimately I'm always going to side with the creatives behind the project over rich executives and I can't really see any good coming from this decision.

[vegetafan]

"I'll take the dog. Give me the dog."
Scott was secretly a Scooby-Doo villain the whole time!?

[mollieh]

I was super bummed hearing about the projects getting canceled. And as someone newer to DC, it sucks that they may limit animated movies. Those are the best!

[tpeters]

With all due respect, I gotta push back on the idea that HBO/WB/Discovery should be prioritizing streaming over theatrical releases for their big budget movies. Sure that would save them some money in distribution costs, but they would be missing out of hundreds of millions in box office revenue for each movie (for the successful ones, at least) that skips theaters. Netflix has been throwing a few $100M+ budget movies per year at us for the last several years, and it doesn't seem to be going over too well for them.

[GamerSlyRatchet]

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Paul Dini as the writer as another plus. Or Mitch Watson from Mystery Incorporated also working on it. Or that we were going to get Patrick Warburton back as Sheriff Bronson Stone.

[veggiet]

Hot take: The best thing that I liked about Scoob! Was the Captain Caveman and bits with lesser known Hannah Barbara characters, because I really miss the Hannah Barbara verse that I enjoyed as a kid, and yes while the actual dialogue given to these characters in Scoob might not have been the strongest or most tasteful, that nostalgia had me eating it up and hoping for spinoffs and maybe Flintstones and Jetsons too

[kieranbenclarke]

Surely Vincent Vanghoul should guide Shaggy and Scooby through the Scoobverse...

[GreyhoundJohnson]

Even Sheriff Bronson Stone was set to Return in Holiday Haunt, how could they even think about cancelling this.

[MrPooleish]

Ezra Miller is starting to remind me of Macavity from Cats. Shows up in a random place, does a crime, then magically disappears.

[sasamichan]

My thoughts, even if a movie would have been bad or in a wrong direction, you still worked on it, people still put there time and effort in to it, you could still make money. If no one sees it you lose all your money. If you put it out there and it gets seen and it makes some money and it doesn't make all its money back at least it made some money. and people are smart. they know what they alternate universes are.

If I can still find the Wonder Woman TV series pilot and that never aired Fantastic Four movie and Norm of the North and Food Fight and the Thief and the Cobler and the Emoji movie and the Ugly Dolls Movie then I should be aloud to find Batgirl or Gigantic or Newt or Popeye, see them and judge for my self.

Also wanting to make "Other" movies does not mean you can't also do the movies you had going.

I am sick of "Can't have Batman on Smallville or JLU because it'll distract from Chris Nolan's vision and we don't want to confuse the audience" that's the same line they use on Spider Man 4, Spectacular Spiderman, Avengers Earths Mightiest heroes, Green Lantern, Bayman brave and the bold, Beware the Batman, Superman returns.... I mean we made 2 Burton Batman movies and two Shoemaker batman movies and no one questioned continuity so why can't we just put any thing out? Why can't Batman be on CW and in DCEU at the same time? its the little things that bug me.


If you want to see a Scooby Doo mystery for adults done the way I would do it, See "Case Closed" and then combine that with "Gravity Falls" or maybe "Ace Attorney"

[spacebadger]

"Warner Bros don't know what they are doing..." That's all that needed to be said Scott.

[aspacelex]

15 years ago I was firmly a DC fan with barely any interest in anything Marvel. Today, while I still enjoy some individual DC shows and movies, I've no investment into the mess the DC universe is as a whole.

[BlackhornLynx]

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo is the best, I hope Red Herring is doing okay

[technounionrepresentative]

If I were the crew I would be absolutely pissed sure the actors will be in another movie, but the cgi artists, the set designers, the costume designers,
The sound mixers, and practically every member of the crew besides the director actors and the producers get overlooked in movies like this, and their work won't even be seen

PS. discovery+ (Or whatever their streaming service is called) absolutely sucks and I'm paranoid that the merger will make one of the better streaming services (HBOMAX) worse

[mikenayers]

I can’t speak for Scoob, but it’s being reported that Batgirl got canned, because it takes place in the new patchwork world created by Flashpoint. Which is why we have a brand new Batgirl running around with DCEU Gordon and Keaton’s Batman.

Whether they cancel or rework the movie, that new world isn’t part of their plans for DC going forward.

This is further alluded to the fact that Keaton’s scenes in Aquaman 2 were reshot with Affleck, and Supergirl supposedly being canceled.

Superman and Batman were supposed to die/be erased in Flashpoint, then replaced by Batgirl and Supergirl.

Finally, if Flashpoint got erased, Batgirl would make even less sense.