“It’s probably my favourite four minutes of film I’ve ever shot before.”
The Suicide Squad director James Gunn has praised star Margot Robbie, calling one action scene “probably [his] favourite four minutes of film [he’s] ever shot before”.
Robbie is due to reprise her character of Harley Quinn from 2016’s Suicide Squad and standalone movie Birds of Prey in the new DC flick, Gunn admitting that he was left vastly impressed by her huge variety of skills.
“She can do anything,” the director told the Associated Press. “Or I thought she could do anything. And then one day she had to sing and I said, ‘OK, well you can do everything but one thing.’
“But she’s such a great actress. She embodies the character. She’s able to do the comedy. She’s able to do the drama. And physically, she is a pure athlete and is able to do these stunts in such a graceful, magnificent, beautiful way.”
Gunn added: “And so I wrote the biggest action scene I’ve ever done all around (Robbie’s character) Harley, and it was so fun to create just on every level from working with the stunt guys all the way through to working with her.
“It’s probably my favourite four minutes of film I’ve ever shot before.”
High praise indeed.
While we can’t wait to see Harley Quinn in The Suicide Squad, it seems it will be a while until we get another Birds of Prey movie, as Robbie recently gave fans an update on a potential sequel to the 2020 movie.
“I don’t know if that is on the horizon anytime soon,” she told Den of Geek. “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.”
“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.”
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Queensland product Margot Robbie will team up with top talent from her home state and beyond for a TV project whose details have just been revealed.
Margot Robbie just revealed what really goes on behind the scenes at the Logies – on one of America’s biggest talk shows.
A team of high-profile Australian women, including Leah Purcell and Rachel Ward, have signed on to write and direct an anticipated Shakespearean television series co-produced by Margot Robbie.
The series, called Shakespeare Now, is being produced by Robbie’s Lucky Chap team and Brisbane’s Hoodlum Entertainment for the ABC, and will see the female creators each recreate one of 10 Shakespeare classics through a modern female lens.
This project is separate from the already announced franchise reboot being developed by ‘Pirates’ scribe Ted Elliott and ‘Chernobyl’ creator Craig Mazin.
Margot Robbie is setting sail with help from her Birds of Prey writer Christina Hodson.Hodson has been tapped to write a new, female-fronted Pirates of the Caribbean for Disney, with Robbie attached to star.
While plot details are being kept in Davey Jones’ locker, the project, in early development, is not intended to be a spinoff of the long-running franchise that had pirate Jack Sparrow at its center, but rather a wholly original story with new characters under the Pirates moniker, itself inspired by the long-running attraction at Disneyland.
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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.
Due to open in Australia on March 19th, Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway has been pushed back to September 10th, making the film the second major studio release to be impacted by the coronavirus after James Bond: No Time to Die.
The live-action/CGI animated family film, which was filmed in Sydney, features Rose Byrne, Margot Robbie, Domhnall Gleeson, David Oyelowo, Elizabeth Debicki and James Corden as Peter.
The news comes amid cinema closures across Asia and Europe. Earlier this week, Italy announced that all its cinemas were to be closed, with others shutting in France and Slovakia. Cinemas across China have been closed for weeks.
The first film raked in $26.7 million in Australia in 2018 and $US351.3 million worldwide. In the UK, Peter Rabbit was the biggest family film of 2018, overtaking Pixar’s Coco with $56.3 million.
