Business owners in Glasgow have demanded compensation after months of putting up with road closures, noise and traffic during the filming of 'woke' superhero movie Batgirl - only for it to never see the light of day.    
The 'irredeemable' movie was completely finished having cost an estimated $90 million (?75 million) and was slated for release on U.S. streaming service HBO Max by the end of this year. But feedback at test screenings was so awful that it has been canned, making it perhaps the most expensive film ever made that will never see the light of day.
Hollywood stars Michael Keaton, Brendan Fraser, JK Simmons and Leslie Grace, Batgirl descended on Scotland's biggest city in November last year, with traffic re-routed, whole streets taken over and residents handed ear plugs and blackout blinds. 
Pictures of the filming suggested it was as dramatic as expected, with scenes of motorcycle chases, superhero battles and fiery nighttime stunts. 
Today, businesses claimed they could only get a maximum of ?1,000 of compensation for a week of lost custom. 
Andrew Clarke, 38, of print firm Cityprint, told : 'I had a production lorry parked outside my door for four weeks. The money offered was ten per cent of what my monthly turnover would have been.'
He also slammed Glasgow City Council after it emerged officials provided the production company with a ?150,000 grant to tempt them into the city. 
'Glasgow needs every penny right now and that money should be spent to look after the more vulnerable and repay for our loss in profit,' he said. 
Robert Chambers, 48, who runs clothes shop Social Recluse, said: 'Batgirl being cancelled is just a slap in the face of the city and council. All that sacrifice for nothing.'
Today, the council insisted the movie had generated a 'very significant' economic benefit for the city despite never seeing the light of day. 
The film's untimely demise has inevitably prompted critics to point to the movie's 'woke' character as a reason for its failure.  
Batgirl's screenplay was by Christina Hodson, the British writer of ultra-feminist film Birds Of Prey, accused by one critic of 'hating on men — all men . . . [and] dull to the point of numbing'.
Batgirl also featured a transgender character, Alysia Yeoh, Barbara Gordon's flatmate, played by the trans actor Ivory Aquino. The impression, critics say, is of a film putting its 'progressive' values ahead of all other concerns. 





The film caused major disruption in parts of the city centre, including road closures, noise and traffic 






Leslie Grace, who played Batgirl, said she was 'proud of the love, hard work and intention all of our incredible cast and tireless crew put into this film over seven months in Scotland'










Lead actor Leslie Grace's stunt women in Batgirl costume filming action scenes (left) and Brendan Fraser's stunt men who was rumoured to be playing villain Firefly










A stuntman wearing a prosthetic mask on the batman set (left) and Fraser's stuntman after filming of a Batgirl scene 






Leslie Grace being filmed while standing on a platform in Glasgow city centre, which doubled up for Gotham City






Batgirl also featured a transgender character, Alysia Yeoh, Barbara Gordon's flatmate, played by the trans actor Ivory Aquino (left, with Grace). The appearance, critics say, is of a film putting its 'progressive' values ahead of all other concerns

Grace, a 27-year-old Afro-Latina singer-actress, had only had one previous acting role in box office flop In The Heights, a 'musical drama' made by woke hero Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man behind the musical Hamilton.
Hollywood icon Michael Keaton - who was seen touching down at Glasgow Airport on a Bombardier Jet - reprised his role as Batman, while Commissioner Gordon, Batgirl's father, was played by the actor J.K. Simmons, who starred in 2002's Spider-Man.
The film was directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, young Moroccan-Belgians best known for the TV series Ms Marvel, about a Muslim Pakistani-American teenage girl who is bullied at school until she develops superpowers.





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Glasgow MSP Pauline McNeil said the push to make Glasgow more of a filming location had been an 'absolute fail'.
She said: 'It is not good enough that you'd offer up Glasgow without considering there might be significant losers over this. I mean these businesses were devastated anyway and then find out the film is not even going to get released.'
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Given the low standard of so much of the content on Netflix, Amazon Prime and other streaming services, and the fact that superhero films have a fanatically loyal audience, it all represents a jaw-dropping failure.
But why was it cancelled so late in the day, and after so much time, money and resources had been spent on it?
Some have alleged the film may have been scrapped rather than released for tax reasons; Warner Bros can now claim Batgirl as a tax write-off — helping it recoup some of its costs elsewhere. However, that doesn't account for why the film was so bad in the first place.
And here there are certainly strong clues to suggest that Batgirl was only the latest in a long and disastrous line of Hollywood films that have prioritised politically correct values over entertainment. As Robin might say, Holy Woke, Batman!
Fans will remember that in the original comics, Batgirl is the night-time alter ego of Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Gotham City's red-headed police commissioner Jim Gordon.
The star of the film was a little-known Afro-Latina singer-actress named Leslie Grace. This alone was a big risk as 27-year-old Grace's only previous major acting role was in the box-office flop In The Heights, a 'musical drama' made by woke hero Lin-Manuel Miranda, the man behind the musical Hamilton.
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With one recent exception — 2017's entertaining romp Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot — films with female superheroes as the main attraction have generally not been commercial and critical triumphs, whatever their diligent support for girl power. Many have been simply dismal.
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This has notched up an execrable 8 per cent approval rating on the critics' aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.
Catwoman, which arrived in 2004, scores only 9 per cent and regularly features in critics' 'worst movies ever' lists. The film starred former Bond girl Halle Berry as Batman's anti- heroine love interest (with superhuman feline abilities and a black leather catsuit).
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Game Of Thrones became a huge hit a decade or so ago precisely because it was so politically incorrect — endless, graphic violence broken up with plenty of gratuitous nudity.
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