Screenshot: Warner Bros. In the Heights’ Leslie Grace.
TheWrap report that the actress recently tested for the role, and that she’s been tapped to play the character in the upcoming superhero film.
Earlier this year, Warner Bros. brought on
Bad Boys for Life directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah to helm the film as a direct-to-HBO Max original, which was written by
Birds of Prey and
The Flash screenwriter Christina Hodson.
While the various versions of the character have appeared in live-action form over the years (in the original Batman TV series, in 1997’s Batman & Robin, and in the upcoming third season of HBO Max’s