![]() Before its thirteen-episode season finished, The WB canceled Birds of Prey due to a lack of viewership. However, capitalizing on the Burton films didn’t bring in enough of an audience. Using footage from Batman Returns, the promos explicitly teased how Helena Kyle aka Huntress ( Ashley Scott) was the daughter of Batman and Catwoman, portrayed by Michael Keaton and Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton’s films, respectively. In order to sidestep any association with the Schumacher films, the trailers for Birds of Preyexplicitly tied the show to Tim Burton’s more successful and popular take on Batman and Gotham City. There’s no better time to reinvent the female-led superhero team, especially after numerous live-action attempts that have led to abrupt endings to the Birds of Prey. A Birds of Prey movie in this new era of DC Studios would provide Gunn and Safran an opportunity to explore lesser-known characters that have yet to gain popularity with general audiences. Even if they are brought back without the cast of the 2020 film, characters such as Huntress, Black Canary, Oracle/Batgirl, and other female superheroes have great cinematic potential if put in the right creative hands. While the fate of Zack Snyder’s Justice League - Henry Cavill’s Superman, Ben Affleck’s Batman, Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman, Jason Momoa’s Aquaman, Ezra Miller’s Flash, and Ray Fisher’s Cyborg - seem to be at their end under the new leadership, the Birds of Prey as we know them still have a questionable future. However, that doesn’t mean the newly formed DC Studios led by James Gunn and Peter Safran should abandon these characters entirely. ![]() It seems as if every version brought to the screen is ill-fated. The Birds of Prey have had a long and turbulent history in live-action adaptations. ![]()
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