‘Batgirl’ Fans Rally for Filmmakers After ‘Bad Boys 4’ Trailer Drops: ‘No Way It Could Have Been Unreleasable’

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah directed both the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence sequel and the doomed DC Comics film

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Leslie Grace in "Batgirl" (Credit: Warner Bros.)

“Bad Boys 4” dropped its highly anticipated trailer on Tuesday, and fans could not be more excited by the Will Smith-Martin Lawrence reteam led by directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah.

But the project, titled “Bad Boys: Ride or Die,” looked so sleek and fun that the trailer also raised questions about just how “bad” the filmmaking duo’s “Batgirl,” which was scrapped by Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022, was.

As film critic Matthew Essary put it: “I’m more convinced than ever that there is no way the directors’ ‘Batgirl’ film could have been unreleasable.

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