Suicide Squad Director Reteams With Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn For Gotham City Sirens Movie
12/13/2016 05:06 pm EST
The name of the long-rumored, Harley Quinn-centric DC movie will be Gotham City Sirens, THR revealed today.
Suicide Squad director David Ayer will return to Gotham along with Margot Robbie, who will play Harley Quinn, and a cast of female superheroes and supervillains from the DC Universe.
Gotham City Sirens the name of a comic book series that starred Harley, Catwoman, and Poison Ivy (Harley's girlfriend). Previous rumors have suggested that the movie could be called Birds of Prey -- the name of a superheroine team led by Batgirl/Oracle Barbara Gordon and occasionally starring Catwoman -- but Sirens likely gives Ayer more room to develop the so-bad-she's-good Harley Quinn from Suicide Squad.
Robbie, already a rising star, has been catapulted to megastardom by the success of Suicide Squad. She was recently named IMDb's biggest star of the year, and won a Critics Choice Award for the part.
Both Catwoman and Poison Ivy have appeared in previous film incarnations, with Uma Thurman playing Ivy in Batman and Robin and Catwoman having appeared in three separate feature films -- Batman Returns, where she was portrayed by Michelle Pfeiffer; Catwoman, played by Halle Berry; and The Dark Knight Rises, played by Anne Hathaway.
Geneva Robertson-Dworet, whio also wrote scripts for the Tomb Raider remake and Warners' Sherlock Holmes 3, is writing the screenplay.
(Art by Mike S. Miller)
With big box office success, it seemed likely Warner would be looking to Suicide Squad as a brand rather than just a stand-alone franchise, and that seems to be the case: the studio is reportedly still developing a Suicide Squad sequel, as well as eyeing a solo movie for Deadshot, Will Smith's character. Both of those rumors have been around for months and THR offered no new insight on them, so it looks like no news is good news.
Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government's disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren't picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it's every man for himself?
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Suicide Squad: The Extended Cut is now available on Digital HD and wil be released on Blu-ray (4K and 3D) on December 13.
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