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Smollett-Bell ( Underground, True Blood) will be playing Dinah Lance/Black Canary, a street fighter who traditionally has a metahuman 'Canary cry' in the comics. Starring alongside Robbie in the film are Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Mary Elizabeth Winstead, who will be bringing to life two iconic members of the Birds of Prey team. With Affleck officially done in the role, and the upcoming The Batman expected to follow a new take on the caped crusader, it sounds Birds of Prey will offer its own take on the city, more in line with DC's overall plan for their 'shared universe'. The film is also expected to be set in a different version of Gotham than what's previously been seen in the DCEU, as Bruce Wayne/Batman (Ben Affleck) has reportedly been absent from the city from several years. While the team has had a pretty rotating roster in the comics over the years, Harley has only sporadically crossed paths with the team, which largely plunges the film into its own narrative territory. This serves as its own sort of twist on the Birds of Prey comics, which follow an ensemble of DC Comics heroines - traditionally Oracle, Black Canary, and Huntress - teaming up in Gotham City. I wasn't seeing enough girl gangs on screen, especially in the action space. 'She's got to be with other people, it should be a girl gang. 'I pitched the idea of an R-rated girl gang film including Harley, because I was like, 'Harley needs friends.' Harley loves interacting with people, so don't ever make her do a standalone film,' Robbie said in a previous interview. (More on those other characters in a bit.) While that particular nugget hasn't been officially confirmed, a lot of context clues have certainly supported it, from the Fantabulous Emancipation subtitle to set photos showing Harley having crossed out her Joker-related tattoos to the fact that a Harley-Joker spinoff has been put on hold.įrom there, the film is expected to see Harley teaming up with an array of DC female characters as they join forces to rescue a young girl from an evil crime boss. One of the earliest details reported about the film has been that it will begin with Harley breaking up from the Joker (Jared Leto).

#Birds of prey comic 68 huntress josh series#

While the plot of Birds of Prey is still largely unknown aside from a series of potential details leaked last October, there already is some indication of where the story could be headed. And then, when we were talking about a title and brainstorming, we all kept drifting back to that one.' prev next We'd always used a working title, so I just had it as a cheeky little thing, on the front cover. 'I added it about a year or so ago, almost exactly as it is, just as an aka.

'It was an unofficial aka, when I wrote the script,' Hodson explained late last year. It's a long title, but I love it.'Īs it turns out, the title was actually originally crafted by the film's screenwriter, Christina Hodson, although she wasn't expecting it to actually be used. 'I said that when we were trying to come up with the title, 'Did you ever see The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared?'. Birds of Prey makes it sound very serious, and then that Harley kind of going 'Hey, here I am.'' It's not going to be … It's not a very serious movie. 'That's real,' Robbie revealed during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last year. The title, which was revealed by Robbie when she shared a photo of the film's script, certainly caught fans' eyes for a good reason. Yes, you read that right the film is (at least for now) titled Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).