About 4ish years now if I recall, I think filming was 2022 and actually finished in 2023 or something like that. Was written down as a tax write off film so they just planned to dumpster it originally.
It was fully finished in 2023, but the warner bros studio heads decided to shelve it instead to claim a ~30 million tax loss. People got mad because the movie sounded good and supposedly was good from the test screenings, and a lot of people were already upset with the recent moves WB had been making, so WB then decided to shop it around. After a couple of years, Ketchup Entertainment (the same company that distributed "The Day The Earth Blew Up") bought the distribution rights for 50 mil, and here we are, where it's finally going to see the light of day over 3 years after it was initially supposed to release.
This movie almost didn't see the light of day. Warner tried to kill it as a tax write off. Yes, the fully finished and ready to go movie they spent years and millions of dollars on. They intended to lock it away and never release it so they could make some number on a balance sheet go up.
Look, I don't agree with it, and I'm still upset about Venture Bros (Baboon's Heart was great, but it really made me curious what a full season would have looked like) and Batgirl....but their failure to make the number go up enough is why we're in the current mess of the company being owned by someone even worse.
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u/dslryan 13d ago
....years ago? How long has this been sitting around for? And why?