{"id":43454,"date":"2018-04-09T22:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=43454"},"modified":"2021-01-11T16:57:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T21:57:12","slug":"bumblebee-scribe-to-take-over-batgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/09\/bumblebee-scribe-to-take-over-batgirl\/","title":{"rendered":"BUMBLEBEE Scribe To Take Over BATGIRL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43458\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Batgirl-Hodson-merged-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" \/>Warner Brothers really wants a\u00a0<strong>Batgirl\u00a0<\/strong>movie and they&#8217;re not going to let a little thing like Joss Whedon walking away from the project stop them from getting one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180426123931\/https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/batgirl-movie-back-bumblebee-writer-1101078\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> states that Warners has hired\u00a0<strong>Bumblebee\u00a0<\/strong>writer Christina Hodson to work on a new script for the character.<\/p>\n<p>Whedon famously stepped down from the job of writing and directing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/22\/joss-whedon-leaves-batgirl-failed\/\">back in February<\/a> when he could break the story for the character.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you out their might ask how can a writer whose only screen credits are a clich\u00e9d psychological thriller (2016&#8217;s <strong>Shut In<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/shut_in\">8% Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>)\u00a0 and a forgettable erotic thriller (2017&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Unforgettable<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/unforgettable_2017\/reviews\/?page=2&amp;sort=rotten\">25% Fresh at Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>) can succeed where a legendary screenwriter has failed. Well, her script for\u00a0<strong>Bumblebee\u00a0<\/strong>has received a lot of buzz around Hollywood (no pun intended). On top of that, Warners was impressed with her work developing a\u00a0<strong>Birds of Prey\u00a0<\/strong>movie. So the studio heads know what they are getting.<\/p>\n<p>No word on a new director or a timetable of when production will begin or the film will be released.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to give Hodson the benefit of the doubt. But she has a tough job ahead of her and incredibly big shoes to fill. Best of luck to her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Christina Hodson is jumping into Joss Whedon&#8217;s Giant-Sized shoes to write BATGIRL. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/09\/bumblebee-scribe-to-take-over-batgirl\/\" title=\"BUMBLEBEE Scribe To Take Over BATGIRL\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[8923,9751,8661,8663,8600,8979],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-batgirl","9":"tag-birds-of-prey","10":"tag-bumblebee","11":"tag-christina-hodson","12":"tag-shut-in","13":"tag-unforgettable"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43454"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=43454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}