The article says it got such a horrible reaction from audiences at its pre-showings that the producers immediately yanked it out of distribution. That reation must have been really, really bad for the producers to throw away so much money. It was almost finished. If they burn all the copies, we will never get to know just how ungodly terrible it really is, which would be a shame. But you know what they were really afraid of .... they were afraid it was going to poison the Batman franchise.