‘Batgirl’ Extra Reportedly Plans to Sue Warner Bros. After Being Hit by Motorcycle on Set

An extra on the set of the ill-fated Batgirl movie says she will sue Warner Bros. after being hit by a motorcycle while filming in Scotland in 2022.

Cristina Stanovici, 35, told The Sun that the accident occurred while she was posing as a bystander for late-night scenes shot in Glasgow's city center.

"They had a motorcycle with cameras on top of it that was filming. It hit me from the right side and I went flying in the air," she said. "I started screaming to get the attention of the paramedics as I remembered seeing an ambulance on site in the previous days. I lay there for almost an hour while they checked me and stabilized me."

Stanovici suffered a broken femur, tibia plateau, pubic bone and thumb along with several non-displaced fractures in her pelvis and laceration to the head. After multiple surgeries and blood transfusions, three days in intensive care and nine days in the hospital, she was released with a rod in her leg.

"Even after 17 months, my leg still hurts and is weak. Not to mention it's deformed, which adds to my trauma," she said. "This leg will need another one or two surgeries but it will never be the same again. The recovery was and is horrendous. I am still in pain every single day, every single step."

"I think conditions should be improved on movie sets. Especially now because Glasgow is chosen more and more as a city to film in and obviously they use extras from Glasgow. They should be thinking about them," she added. "I went there to have some fun, to see how it is, what making a movie involves. And look what happened."

A report was filed with the Health and Safety Executive, which regulates workplace wellbeing, and Stanovici has reportedly instructed solicitors to sue Warner Bros. on her behalf.

Batgirl, which wrapped filming in March 2022, was scrapped by new Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav after the $90 million film reportedly received a poor response at test screenings. "That film was not releasable," said DC Studios co-head Peter Safran.