The Mummy trilogy star Brendan Fraser will join Batgirl’s Leslie Grace (In The Heights) in the Warner Bros. and DC Films project. Although his role has yet to be confirmed, Deadline sources report that Fraser would play the pyromaniac supervillain Firefly/Garfield Lynns. Batgirl won’t be the first time Fraser has stepped into the DC Universe, having previously portrayed Robotman/Clifford “Cliff” Steele in the Titans TV show, and later in Doom Patrol. 

Grace stars as Barbara Gordon, daughter of Commissioner James Gordon (J.K. Simmons, returning to the role after Zack Snyder’s Justice League), who was part of the Batman family as Batgirl before becoming the Oracle. Grace is the first Latina actress to play Batgirl and only the third to be cast in the DC Extended Universe, after Sasha Calle as Supergirl in The Flash (2022) and Rachel Zegler as a daughter of Atlas in the upcoming Shazam! Fury of the Gods. 

Jacob Scipio also recently joined the cast in an unconfirmed role. The film is being helmed by Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah from a script by Birds of Prey screenwriter Christina Hodson, the details of which are being kept tightly under wraps. Batgirl will also be one of the first major DC properties to debut exclusively on HBO Max.

Fraser has finally been seeing a well-deserved resurgence this year, after being blacklisted from Hollywood for speaking out against the president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who Fraser alleges sexually assaulted him in 2003. Beginning with his landing the lead role in Darren Aronofsky’s upcoming psychological drama The Whale, he was then cast in a key role for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. Most recently, Fraser was seen in Steven Soderbergh’s gangster period film No Sudden Move. 

Batgirl is due to release sometime in 2022.