

The unique outfits each of the heroes and villains of the film wear is a reflection of their personality according to costume designer Erin Benach. "Like the stakes were as big as perhaps Mafia-level or gang level." Sionis own the Black Mask night club and is hellbent on controlling all of Gotham's organized crime. "My initial pitch on the story, I said I wanted to keep it quite contained, get no bigger, and no world-ending stakes," Robbie said. she wanted to keep the story and its respective villains grounded. Sadly, we didn't get to see Ewan McGregor's Roman Sionis in action, but Robbie informed us that when she initially pitched the idea to Warner Bros. "But really, it’s about…I guess you’ll wait and see how well she does or does not get along with the Birds of Prey in the end." If we took anything away from the scene we saw, the Birds definitely get off to a rocky start. Play "Harley is the narrator of the story, a very unreliable, erratic narrator, which is fun but it also gives the audience an opportunity to be inside her brain sometimes and see the world through her eyes at times," Robbie explained. Check out the official Birds of Prey trailer in the video below: But we wanted to know how reliable of a narrator she is when we spoke to Robbie. One of the major tentpoles of the film is that Birds of Prey is told from Harley's perspective. And even in a room with a Canary and a Huntress, Harley is the craziest of the bunch. Birds of Prey may be a standalone film and not a direct sequel, but Robbie's portrayal of Harley should be familiar to fans of Suicide Squad and she's really funny and engaging. The few lines of dialogue we heard indicated that this particular scene is the first time the Birds of Prey have all been in the same room, and it's clear that DC isn't afraid to use plenty of swearing whenever characters are interacting with each other. After Casandra frees herself from the duck-tape restraints, she grabs a gun on the floor and a standoff ensues. The pivotal scene we saw featured most of the leading cast, including Harley, Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and Casandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco). like Tarantino, obviously." After leaving the war room, we were guided to one of the massive sets that the production team was filming on. A lot of my favorite filmmakers are influences.

"The structure of the film is a bit like Pulp Fiction meets Rashomon," Yan said, adding, "so it's an unconventional structure. Yan also shared some of the film's influences, which ranged from Akira Kurosawa to Quentin Tarantino. However, the scenes we saw being filmed (we'll get to that soon) featured a myriad of colorful words from each of the leading ladies.ġ4 Images And while the mind of Harley seems like a jumbled mess, director Cathy Yan knows exactly where she wants the story to go and how it should be executed. Be a little more sardonic and edgier and a little bit more attitudinal and subversive." When asked if "edgier" means R-rated like Deadpool, Unkeless told us that it was too early in the film's production to say for sure. "They're all bleeding for this and we're trying to take chances and really try and do things a little bit differently and push the envelope. "The cast is spectacular," Unkeless said. "So it's an origin story of sorts." Another of the film's producers, Bryan Unkeless (The Hunger Games), echoed Kroll's statement by talking about going in a different direction than previous DC films.
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" is a standalone movie and it's not a sequel or tied in any way to Suicide Squad," Kroll explained.

Producer Sue Kroll (A Star Is Born) informed us that Robbie envisioned Birds of Prey as a "girl gang film," and emphasized that it's a standalone movie.
