DCEU: 10 Comics It Must Adapt To Beat Marvel
5. Batgirl: Year One
Barbara Gordon may not feature in the upcoming Birds of Prey, but she's bound to play a part in the DCEU at some point.
A Batgirl film featuring Babs was announced a few years ago with Joss Whedon originally at the helm. However, Whedon soon exited the project and a new writer was brought onboard - Christina Hodson, who penned Bumblebee for Paramount as well as the script for Cathy Yan's aforementioned film.
Hodson only has about three films under her belt, but she's on the rise and her work on Bumblebee was sublime. With that in mind, and with WB potentially encouraged by what they've seen of Birds of Prey so far, her involvement in Batgirl is very exciting.
Given the last time audiences saw Barbara Gordon onscreen came in 1997's Batman & Robin though, it's perhaps inevitable that the upcoming film will be an origin story. Fortunately for readers and Hodson, there've been loads of brilliant stories that have chronicled Gordon's burgeoning years as a crimefighter, including the aptly titled Batgirl: Year One.
Recent forays into the character's time as Batgirl worth mentioning include pretty much everything Gail Simone has done with Barbara, as well as the Batgirl of Burnside books helmed by Brendan Fletcher, Cameron Stewart and Babs Tarr.