Last month it was confirmed that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn is making the jump from the MCU to the DCEU as he “relaunches” Task Force X with The Suicide Squad – described as a “whole new take” on the team of villains and featuring “a mostly all-new cast of characters and actors.”
That’s as much as we know at present, but after posting a report earlier this week claiming that Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn would be one of the casualties of the revamp, Forbes writer Mark Hughes is now reporting that his information was wrong, and that Robbie will indeed be part of the new movie.
“I have learned from sources close to production that in fact, the information about Harley Quinn being absent from the new Suicide Squad movie is no longer up to date,” said Hughes. “She is indeed expected to appear in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, which is expected to begin production later this year.”
In his original report, Hughes also claimed that the recent rumors suggesting that Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) will kick off a Harley-led trilogy are false, and that she’d not be appearing in Birds of Prey, or the planned Batgirl solo movie. Of course, with his info on The Suicide Squad being inaccurate, one would have to assume the rest of this info could also be wide of the mark.
Cathy Yan (Dead Pigs) is directing Birds of Prey from a script by Christina Hodson (Bumblebee) with Margot Robbie reprising her Suicide Squad role as Harley Quinn alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Fargo) as The Huntress, Jurnee Smolett-Bell (Underground) as Black Canary, Rosie Perez (Fearless) as Renee Montoya, Elle Jay Basco (Grey’s Anatomy) as Cassandra Cain, Ewan McGregor (Christopher Robin) as Black Mask, Chris Messina (Sharp Objects) as Victor Zsasz, Ali Wong (Black Box), Robert Catrini (Jack Reacher: Never Go Back), Steven Williams (The Chi), Dana Lee (Dr. Ken), Francois Chau (The Expanse, The Tick) and Matthew Willig (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs). It is set for release on February 7th 2020.
via Flickering Myth