![]() 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. Is ‘Hoping’ to Get Christopher Nolan Back After ‘Oppenheimer’ SplitĪnd “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). The series ran for thirteen-episodes before it was cancelled on the then known WB network.Īswell as the main cast members across Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Brandon Routh will be appearing as the Kingdom Come version of Superman, Tyler Hoechlin as Clark Kent/Superman, Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane, Burt Ward (the original live-action Robin) will have an undisclosed role, Jon Cryer as Lex Luthor, characters from Black Lightning, Kevin Conroy as an old Bruce Wayne, Johnathon Schaech will appear as Jonah Hex, John Wesley Shipp will also appear, Tom Welling will appear as Clark Kent, Erica Durance will appear as Lois Lane, Tom Kavanagh will appear as Pariah (a character from the Crisis On Infinite Earths comic) and LaMonica Garrett pulling double duty as The Monitor (introduced in last years Elseworlds) and The Anti-Monitor (big bad for Crisis On Infinite Earths).Ĭrisis On Infinite Earths crossover will begin with Supergirl (8th December 2019), then Batwoman (9th December 2019) and The Flash (10th December), then return in the new year to conclude on Arrow and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (14th January 2020).Usually, when a studio greenlights a comic-book spin-off, it’s as close to sure-fire as you can get. In this new reality, the two heroes are the only ones that know that they are in the wrong lives and have each other’s powers.Īshley Scott starred as one of the three leads (the others being Dina Meyer and Rachel Skarsten) in the short-lived live-action series Birds of Prey in 2002, playing the role of Helena Kyle aka Huntress. TVLine is exclusively reporting that Ashley Scott will be reprising the role of Huntress from the Birds of Prey series in the upcoming Arrowverse crossover event Crisis On Infinite Earths.Ĭrisis On Infinite Earths is the followup event to last years crossover Elseworlds, where Arkham Asylum doctor John Deegan rewriting reality, which results in Oliver and Barry swapping lives.
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