“I don’t know if that is on the horizon anytime soon.”
Birds of Prey star Margot Robbie has given fans a disappointing update on a potential sequel, admitting it won’t be happening anytime soon.
The Harley Quinn-centric movie was critically well-received when it was released last year and it took in over $200 million at the box office too.
However, speaking in a new interview, Robbie admitted that there is sadly nothing in the pipeline when it comes to a follow-up as things currently stand.
“I don’t know if that is on the horizon anytime soon,” she told Den of Geek.
Yet, her words weren’t entirely without hope, the star adding: “I don’t think it’s a no. But no, there’s no sequel in the works that I’m aware of at this stage.”
One star that would clearly be on board for a sequel is Jurnee Smollett, who played Black Canary in the original.
Speaking last year, the actress told Entertainment Weekly: “It’s no secret how much I loved playing Black Canary, and [I was] so honoured to take on that mantle. I would absolutely do it again if given a chance.”
While it may be a while until we see Harley Quinn again in a Birds of Prey setting, fans will at least be able to reunite with the DC fave in The Suicide Squad, which is due out this summer.
Speaking recently about how her character is different this time around, Robbie explained to Total Film: “[In terms of] how she’s changed, it’s just always interesting to explore what characteristics different directors gravitate towards from the character.
“The common denominator is the source material, which is what I always built the character off anyway. Then she evolves in different ways under different people’s direction.”
Universal Picture announced Monday that several of its current releases will be made available for digital purchase much earlier than scheduled.
And later in the day, Warner Bros. shared the news that it is releasing Birds of Prey, the Suicide Squad spin-off, on video-on-demand on March 24 even though it is still playing in theaters.
The film is expected to cost $19.99 to buy on platforms such as Amazon and iTunes, and will be available for rental in April, Variety reported.
Warner Bros. announced Monday it is releasing Birds of Prey, the Suicide Squad spin-off starring Margot Robbie, on video-on-demand on March 24 even though it is still in theaters
Birds Of Prey stars Margot Robbie as her Suicide Squad character Harley Quinn.
The movie was released on February 8 but has performed disappointingly in theaters, generating $177 million to date according to Variety. It had a budget of $85 million.
The studios are making the decisions to shorten or even abolish all together the traditional gap between showing a movie in theaters and making it available on demand as a growing number of movie theaters shut down across the US amid the growing coronavirus pandemic.
Multiplexes in New York, Colorado, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Washington, have been ordered to close while movie-going overall has plummeted to a 20-year low as audiences follow advice to distanced themselves from others and stay home as much as possible.
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) hit theaters final month and is at the moment the third-highest rated film in the newest batch of DC movies on Rotten Tomatoes. The brand new film stars Margot Robbie in the titular function and follows the character as she navigates her newfound independence after breaking apart with the Joker. An necessary half of the character’s transformation contains the costumes, which had been a lot much less “male gaze-y” than what Robbie beforehand wore in Suicide Squad. Birds of Prey was very clearly made by girls for ladies, and director Cathy Yan positively put loads of thought into the approach Harley Quinn and the different girls can be perceived onscreen. In a current New York Occasions article, a number of girls administrators defined how they rejected the male gaze of their movies, together with Yan.
The New York Occasions mentions the scene that options Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor) forcing a girl in his membership to get on a desk and strip. Here is what Yan needed to say about the second: “We had been fairly acutely aware to not muddy what the scene was meant to be about, by not providing something remotely susceptible or titillating,” she defined. “There are decisions like that which felt very deliberate; we had been ensuring we had been defending our feminine actors, even in a scene that was about humiliation.” She added that different decisions had been extra intuitive, saying, “It was much less, ‘I’m going to unpack and reject the male gaze of each director who’s come earlier than me’ and extra of an unconscious, innate response about what feels proper.” It was necessary to Yan to maintain the digital camera on her actors’ faces. “That’s the place you inform the story,” Yan mentioned. “‘Search for right here! I’m speaking to you!’”
In a current interview with The New Yorker, Yan spoke about the “sizzle reel” she made to pitch her imaginative and prescient for the movie, which she assures was “not your typical sizzle reel”. The montage was set to a do-it-yourself remix of “Diamonds Are a Woman’s Greatest Good friend” (a music that in the end made it into one of Birds of Prey‘s most memorable sequences), and tried for instance “the worst of fashionable womanhood.”
“Like, scenes from Bachelor proposals, the De Beers diamond industrial, Kim Kardashian’s vampire facial, Fox anchors speaking about girls, Trump saying ‘Seize ’em by the p*ssy’,” Yan defined. “After I confirmed the video, there was simply silence.”
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– Feb 04 | ‘Birds of Prey’ Fan New York Experience and Screening
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– Jan 29 | ‘Birds of Prey’ London Premiere
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– Jan 28 | Harley Quinns Pop Up Roller Disco in London
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– Jan 25 | ‘Birds of Prey’ Mexico City Premiere
