She’s unlike anyone else we’ve seen on screen.” We’re seeing her on her own, not in the shadow of Joker, her emancipation, finding her own voice and her own two feet to stand on. “Having Harley Quinn as our narrator and mouthpiece, the lens for the whole story, gives you the crazy, fun, and poppy tone. “They did let us go pretty far,” said Hodson. Their final take was inspired by “Trainspotting” and “True Romance,” and they pitched the studio in 2015, before “Suicide Squad” was finished. They raided the DC library, ingesting stacks of comics, texting each other their favorite storylines and panels. From their first meeting, Robbie and Hodson pursued an unfettered Gotham with Quinn at its center. The actress developed the script with writer Christina Hodson (“Batgirl”) and eventually, in-house producer Sue Kroll, the former Warners marketing chief. Margot Robbie wanted “Birds of Prey” to be R rated. Here’s how this female-empowering action comedy turned out so well, yet floundered at the box office. Robbie is a gifted action comedienne with danger in her veins. Written, directed, and produced by women (including Robbie), “Birds of Prey” is cohesive and visually entertaining. That movie was critic proof, opening to $134 million, and as the pink-and-blue pigtailed roller-skating Harley Quinn, Robbie became a global movie star. Movie’ Powers Up on PVOD, As Netflix Discovers ‘To Leslie’Īnd “Birds of Prey” got much better reviews (deservedly) than its predecessor. David Ayer’s PG-13 “Suicide Squad” was a series of violent, percussive action scenes of predictable and often nonsensical mayhem. Now the film has been hastily renamed “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey,” in hopes that the clearer title, and its improved SEO, will mean a healthier gross. However, “Birds of Prey,” opened last weekend to $33.3 million, well below box-office expectations of $45 million-$55 million, based on preview testing (88% in the top two boxes for women, 86% people under 30), upbeat fanboy and media reactions, and (clearly inflated) advance tracking. Even Todd Phillips’ risky R-rated origin myth “Joker,” starring Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix as a mentally ill chaos agent, turned into a $1 billion global home run.Īnd then there’s the film formerly known as “ Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn),” a title that distanced itself from the DC film that introduced Margot Robbie as Quinn, 2016 box-office smash “Suicide Squad” ($746 million worldwide, with its own James Gunn reboot in the works for 2021). View original Arrow Exclusive: The Huntress Returns for "Birds of Prey" Episode! at TVGuide.Usually, when a studio greenlights a comic-book spin-off, it’s as close to sure-fire as you can get. (Full disclosure: is owned by CBS, one of The CW's parent companies.) "We consider Jessica a member of the Arrow family and we're looking forward to having her back for an episode everyone will be talking about after," executive producer Marc Guggenheim tells us.ĭe Gouw's episode is slated to air Wednesday, March 26 at 8/7c on The CW. Mega Buzz: Will Laurel ever learn the truth about Sara on Arrow? However, to kill him, she's going to have to go through the Arrow. Helena will return to Starling City in hopes of exacting revenge after the Arrow arrests Frank. The last we saw of Helena Bertinelli, Oliver's ( Stephen Amell) spurned former lover was on the hunt for her father, crime boss Frank Bertinelli ( Jeffrey Nordling) after he had her fiancé killed. The Huntress is returning to Starling City!ĭracula's Jessica de Gouw will reprise her role as the DC Comics vigilante on an upcoming episode of Arrow aptly titled "Birds of Prey," has learned exclusively.
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