Actor Jeffery Wright announced recently on Twitter that he is "off to Gotham" to begin filming DC's The Batman as the new Commissioner Gordon.

It’s officially official: Jeffrey Wright is your new Commissioner Gordon. Word first broke in September that the Emmy and Tony Award-winning actor would fill the key role in writer/director Matt Reeves’ highly anticipated reboot The Batman, and Reeves confirmed Wright’s casting with a Tweet last night that simply said, “Gordon.” https://twitter.com/mattreevesLA/status/1189668589726584832?s=20 But another note of interest here is the implication that Batgirl—in the universe of The Batman—will be a woman of color. The most iconic iteration of Batgirl in the comics is Barbara Gordon, the daughter of …