Birds of Prey director Cathy Yan is switching things up for the big screen, having Harley essentially bring together the Birds. That way you can feel like an expert while watching them absolutely destroy Gotham’s criminal underworld on the big screen.Īs for Harley Quinn, when she’s not attached at the hip to the Joker, she actually ran around with a different girl group in the comics - the villainous Gotham City Sirens. If some or none of those character names sound familiar to you, then you’ve come to the right place! While the Birds of Prey movie serves as a great introduction to each of those comic book characters, EW’s primer on the history of the Birds of Prey team will tell you all the basics you need to know to fully understand the backstories of each one.
You know, normal post-breakup activities!īut Birds of Prey truly earns its title once all the other kickass women finally join forces, including Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Dinah Lance/Black Canary, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Helena Bertinelli/The Huntress, Rosie Perez as Detective Renee Montoya, and Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain. Reprising her fan-favorite, unhinged antihero from the 2016 villain team-up movie Suicide Squad, Robbie leads a fierce flock of cohorts in her own spin-off that begins with Harley Quinn getting unceremoniously dumped by her “puddin'” Joker (played by Jared Leto in Suicide Squad) and coping with the breakup in the most relatable ways - giving herself a haircut she immediately regrets, getting embarrassingly drunk, and binge-eating ice cream before blowing up the ACE chemical plant that was her romantic spot with her ex. Margot Robbie‘s standalone DC Comics movie Birds of Prey finally hits theaters this weekend and it’s full of R-rated, glitter-covered action and comedy mixed together in a neon-colored blitzkrieg of girl power comic book goodness. Step aside, Suicide Squad - Harley Quinn’s getting her own badass girl gang and it’s going to make you go, “Joker who?”
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