“He is so, so talented,” gushes director Adil El Arbi when speaking to Variety about Brendan Fraser.
The actor played villain Firefly in the now discarded Warner Bros.
Discovery film “Batgirl,” directed by El Arbi in collaboration with his long-time partner, Bilall Fallah.
“The way he played that character… It was one of the most memorable villains, so we’ll see.
Maybe when he wins his Oscar they’ll want to show the movie,” concluded Adil, referring to Fraser’s Oscar buzz for Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale.”“[Fraser] is the nicest guy I’ve ever met in my life,” agrees Bilall, who fondly remembers the seven months of shooting “Batgirl” in Glasgow, Scotland.
“I never had an experience like that, the whole city was working with us to make it possible.
I hope we can get back.”“We might have it somewhere,” Adil says of the footage.
Back in August,
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