Birds of Prey
After the corner office success of DC’sSuicide Squad , it seemed their was no film ground on Margot Robbie ’s Harley Quinn , the devotee - favorite casting member , that Warner Bros. would n’t look at . There was the inevitable , partial - rebootSuicide Squadsequelof course of study , but eventually reports of a Joker and Harley movie , andGotham City Sirensproject come down through … leaving onlyBirds Of Prey ( And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn ) .
A title no fan could think of , but one that has come to mean more than anyone would have guess when they first heard it . On the surface , it makes the most authoritative full point of Harley ’s next stage : expose up with the Joker . border it as a purely positive turn of events that Harley should be disengage from Joker ’s influence ( a beloved story thateven confused Margot Robbie ) , author Christina Hodson would eventually confirm theextendedBirds of Preytitle was a jokeat first . But as the story of Harley , Huntress , Canary , Cass , and Renee began to take shape , the substance of the lighthearted championship changed . Now it ’s a short edition of the wholeBirds of Preystory : woman not necessarily even rescuing each other , but rescuingthemselves .
Screen Rant had the opportunity to visit the set ofBirds of Prey ( And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)during yield in March , where we talk with the film ’s crew , casting , and director about the next launching in DC ’s unconnected motion picture universe . While it was made decipherable thatBirds of Preyisn’t a follow - up toSuicide Squad , it ’s still dealing with Harley ’s emancipation from Joker ( the reading of the account every comic fan knows , without touch to a specific telling ) . But then … this is n’t just a Harley Quinn moving picture .
Any confusion over the decision to keep Hodson ’s prank caption was break up when the estimate of emancipation , growth , and progress observe rearing its head during our time on set . Even if this isa narration narrate from Harley Quinn ’s point of view , the themes are spread across every single character :
It ’s really Harley ’s story , as well as all of these women ’s stories . And in a elbow room their stories kind of echo each other . So when our rubric include ‘ The Emancipation of One Harley Quinn ’ that is essentially the story that she goes on . We observe her basically without the Joker at the start of the moving-picture show , and through the plastic film she learns that she does n’t call for anyone but herself . She does n’t necessarily make protagonist with the other women , but they come together , and through that they all sort of emancipate themselves throughout the film .
That indication thatBirds of Preywon’t be the sisterhood/‘girl king ' brand of team - up some fans might wait proceed , with every member of the filmmaking team cease short of even referring to the movie ’s shape as a ' squad ' by the finale . As manufacturer Bryan Unkeless explain , that is also an extension of the ' emancipation ' musical theme – that the journey is about independence , first and first :
We ’re so accustomed to have heroes and villain , and I remember this film live a footling mo more in the grey . Where some of the people can do villainous things but not be completely made of bad . There ’s a slew of way to understand them , and get a little piece of perspective . Each of our theatrical role , but specifically the female characters , we are finding at really interesting and singular transitionary time in their life . That ’s where that ‘ emancipation ’ word – they’re emancipating themselves from something . Whether it ’s the circumstances that they ’re working within , or some kind of patriarchal organisation , or an emotional kinship , or whatever it may be . But because of the vulnerability that comes from that , the great unwashed act as in sometimes effective , and sometimes bad ways . It ’s hopefully a bit more nuanced .
There ’s no question fans will appreciate imperfect heroine , with Harley Quinn ’s own popularity paying will to that shortage int the superhero music genre . And if the Birds ' tendencies to do both good and bad is rooted in their best efforts to loose themselves from … something , it can only make their characters more interesting , not less . Stay tuned to Screen Rant for more interviews and detail from ourBirds of Preyset sojourn !
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