Michael Kurinsky was supposed to make his directorial debut alongside co-director Bill Haller with “Scoob! Holiday Haunt.” That is, until the film — starring Iain Armitage, Mark Hamill, Cristo Fern…
.” That is, until the film — starring Iain Armitage, Mark Hamill, Cristo Fernández, Ming Na-Wen and Frank Welker — was abruptly pulled from release by Warner Bros. Discovery on Aug. 2, terminating Kurinsky’s two years of work on the film.
“We had a few hundred shots that needed to be finished, lit, rendered and then approved,” Kurinsky explained. “We had a certain amount of time to finish those shots, and we did. I heard numbers like it was about 95% finished. That’s pretty close.” Warner Bros. then explained the situation to Kurinsky, apologizing that he found out this way. According to sources with knowledge of the situation, “Batgirl” and “Scoob! Holiday Haunt” were shelved due to financial considerations including tax write-downs. By not releasing the films either theatrically or on HBO Max, Warner Bros. can take a tax write-down on both films, recouping a portion of the production costs. Kurinsky heard the same reasoning in his phone calls.
“We had two years from start to finish,” Kurinsky said. “And when I say that I don’t mean we had a finished script and then we were gonna start production in those two years. No, we started from a, like, two-page outline. And we said, ‘You have two years to make this movie. And it needs to be done by this date. Go.’ And we got it done by said day.”
The film, part classic Scooby mystery and part Christmas tale, allowed Kurinsky and Haller — who both credit Scooby-Doo for inspiring them to go into animation in the first place — to tap into their inner fandom and explore a new timeline of the mystery gang. The team toiled for weeks to finish, all the while knowing the finished product would likely never be seen.
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