Plausible reason shelved....and it's not because of the anti-woke claims BS...

Of course it's not because of the movie being too 'woke'. These studio execs aren't wasting their time posting Breitbart or WND links on on Telegram or Gab. Also, David Zaslav sounds like a real piece of work.

Why is it even a story.

The movie is owned by Warner Brothers. They can do what they want with it.

Many projects get cancelled and written off. Why is this one special

I'm not an accountant, but if they write it off on their taxes, doesn't it just mean they take the cost of the film as a loss, and they have to pay that much less tax on whatever their profits were for the year? I mean, you don't get to save the full amount of a tax deduction you take, you're just not paying tax on that amount. Then again, it's corporate taxes, maybe there is some wizardry that lets them save the full cost of the movie.

I think it's possible they just didn't want to pay to market and distribute the movie, along with being able to write it off. There are a lot of costs that go along with getting a movie out. Combine that with the tax savings and all of it combined makes it look like a good move.

It's really looking like no matter what your wiki definition tells you is "anti-woke claims BS" that they have plans for a big BatFleck movie and don't want to Sully the franchise and get a Ghostbusters Afterlife type situation for themselves.

There's a 3 percent payrise and it could be bringing on more strikes.

I had no interest in seeing this film but if these events cause a rival studio to make a team up movie of Dirty Harry and Batgirl, I’m there.

If it's true that the simplest explanation is most likely to be the true one, then maybe the movie was just a great big steaming pile of awfulness. With worms.

The second likeliest explanation is that the whole thing was a scam designed to keep the contractual rights to the Batgirl character, that's been done before. Footage was shot, actors and directors and crew were hired, and then the film was never released, because the studio wanted to keep the rights to a property but didn't have a script worth filming. The people working on the film had no idea.

I heard another reason is due to the ending of The Flash being changed. In the original ending Affleck's Batman dies and Keaton's Batman takes his place in his universe. Due to Affleck changing his mind about not playing the character again it was decided to reshoot the ending so he lives. That way he can appear in Aquaman 2 and other future DCEU movies. However as a result Keaton's presence in Batgirl no longer makes any sense. Reshooting his scenes with Affleck was not a option because of contract issues so it decided to shelve the movie for the time being due to it no longer being canon.