Birds of Prey
Harley Quinn left the Joker after the events of Suicide Squad and
since then Batman seems to have disappeared from Gotham, where the
Birds of Prey operate, like the Slayer, Huntress, daughter of the
mobster Franco Bertinelli, and Dinah Lance aka Black Canary, endowed
with a formidable sonic scream. Harley works with them and Gotham Police
Department detective Renee Montoya to save young Cassandra Cain, who
got into trouble by getting hold of a diamond owned by the ruthless
underworld boss Black Mask.
«I proposed, in 2015 to Warner, the idea of an R-Rated film (not
for families) on a gang of girls which also included Harley. Because, as
I see it, Harley needs friends, she loves interacting with others, so
she should never be in a solo movie. And she had to be a girl gang
because I didn’t see many in the cinema, especially in the action genre.
And then he should have had a female director, with the ability to do
big budget things. Directors always give these little movies … but I
love action and action movies and I’m a girl. We don’t have to be just a
thing, do we? So it was very important to find a director if possible.
And in the end – between men and women – he won the best, that is Cathy.
”
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie
Directed by Cathy Yan, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous
Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) has an extraordinarily long title that
Margot Robbie explained by saying, “It’s not a very serious movie and
we thought the title should reflect it.” Birds of Prey sounds very
serious, but it is as if Harley added “Hey, I’m here too!” ». Harley,
played by Margot Robbie, will boast a new look in the film, also due to
the emancipation from the Joker, which will appear in a few scenes, for
now shot not by Jared Leto but by a substitute. In fact, during the
filming of the film, Leto was busy on the set of Morbius and therefore
he was unable to participate, but perhaps he will be reinstated in later
filming phases, in post-production.
The two main villains are Black Mask, a historic Batman opponent who
has never made it to the big screen before, and the psychopath Victor
Zsasz, halfway between an assassin and a serial killer who loves to
sadistically kill with a knife. They are played respectively by Ewan
McGregor, whose face behind the black skull mask we don’t know, and by
Chris Messina, launched as a sex symbol by the recent Sharp Objects TV
series.
