The robots in disguise are back in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, the seventh installment in the live-action Transformers movies. Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn movie, ‘Gotham City Sirens,’ lands director ‘Aquaman’ movie: Everything we know about it so far The Suicide Squad: Everything we know about James Gunn’s sequel Updated on February 11, 2020: Added news of the title change. Two more films featuring the character - a Gotham City Sirens film and a project with Harley Quinn and Jared Leto’s Joker - have been announced, but appear to have been put on the back burner by the studio. Harley past, present, and futureĪlong with reprising the role of Harley Quinn in Birds of Prey, Robbie is expected to make a return as the character in The Suicide Squad, a soft reboot of the supervillain team-up franchise that began with 2016’s Suicide Squad. Yan will be directing the film from a script penned by Christina Hodson, the screenwriter on the Transformers spinoff film Bumblebee and the upcoming Batgirl movie.

Robbie, who is also one of the producers on the film, reportedly made a strong push to bring in a female director on the project. Pictures’ superhero universe after Patty Jenkins helmed Wonder Woman, and she is the first Asian female director to helm a mainstream superhero movie. Yan is now the second female filmmaker in Warner Bros. Yan also wrote and directed several short films, and was a Wall Street Journal reporter. Yan previously directed 2017’s Dead Pigs, a small-budget drama that won the World Cinema Dramatic Award For Ensemble Acting at the Sundance Film Festival. In April 2018, little-known filmmaker Cathy Yan was hired to helm the film. Supporting cast members include Ali Wong ( Fresh Off the Boat), Robert Catrini ( American Crime Story), Chris Messina ( Sharp Objects), Steven Williams ( It), and Derek Wilson ( Preacher). The first teaser for Birds of Prey was released January 28, and introduced the primary cast members for the film and how their characters will appear in the project.Īlong with Robbie as Harley Quinn, the film’s cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain, Ewan McGregor as the villain Black Mask, and Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya. The studio teased the release of the trailer by debuting four posters for the film featuring Robbie as Harley Quinn. The first, full-length trailer for Birds of Prey (see above) was released October 1, and offered a good look at Robbie’s return as Harley Quinn, as well as her colorful supporting cast. We get glimpses of Ewan McGregor as the big bad, Roman Sionis (aka Black Mask), as well as Harley’s team, including Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), and Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco). They were like, 'Yeah, we just want to do this final test,' but at the bottom I can see that there are eight participants, and it's recording, and I'm like, 'Alright, I don't know what this is.' And then they broke it to me like, 'We just want you to read this text we're going to send it to your email.' And I open it and it says, 'I'm Batgirl, love Adil,' and my brain broke.The final trailer for Birds of Prey gives a few clues to how Harley Quinn became emancipated from “Mister J” (The Joker will not be in this film) and started running with a like-minded group of delinquent warriors. It was the middle of the day, and I was looking crazy, and they were like, 'Get on the phone really fast this could be a final test or some news or something.' So I hop on, and I only see our two directors, Adil and Bilall, who are so sweet. They called me under the pretense, or had me hop on a Zoom link under the pretense that I was doing a final test - that this was just another step in the process. The directors actually called me, and the producers were on the line. My brain actually broke when I got the news. 'When I mean incredible, I mean the textbook definition of, I could not believe it. 'It was an incredible moment,' Grace said.

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