Fred's Fun Fact: The Most Expensive, Abandoned Movie

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread Show is on. Yeah, Fread's fun fact Fred fun.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So much.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Guys?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Did you know that the twenty twenty two superhero movie
Batgirl was the most expensive abandoned movie in history. Warner
Brothers spent over ninety million dollars on the project and
the film was in post production when they decided not
to release it. What so, the most expensive abandoned movie
in history Batgirl twenty twenty two, ninety million dollars?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Just poof?

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Why do they do?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
You remember?

Speaker 4 (00:39):
Why?

Speaker 3 (00:40):
It was when they went through that whole thing, when
that merger went down, and they're just like, sorry, we're
getting rid of this.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Like it it. It didn't test well with the test audience.
So they're just like, we're not gonna play tak it
for ninety mili. You just put it at Did you
see what happened?

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Makes sense?

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Yeah, Waku in Phoenix just left a movie like a
day before it started and they built all the sets
and things, and all these people.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Are out of work.

Speaker 5 (01:01):
I never thought about that, you know how much it
would cost to make?

Speaker 3 (01:04):
But yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, so it's ever asked on Shepardy or whatever. Ninety
million dollars wasted on backgirld the most expensive abandoned movie
in his more Fred show.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Next,