But ultimately, the studio is plunking down $100 million, so they’re the ones who get the final say. hired the editors of the well-received comedic trailer to recut the entire movie as a feature-length trailer, which unsurprisingly resulted in a disaster.Īfter Harley’s scenes in Suicide Squad were overtly framed with the male gaze in mind, Margot Robbie joined Birds of Prey as a producer to have more creative control. David Ayer directed Suicide Squad on an absurdly accelerated schedule as a dark, brooding drama, then Warner Bros. In the middle of making Justice League, Zack Snyder suddenly had a two-hour runtime limit enforced on an ambitious epic that’s now being released in its original form clocking in at four hours. Yan didn’t mention anything specific, but studio interference is obvious in the final product and it fits an unfortunate pattern with this particular studio. meddled in her vision for Birds of Prey, and the revelation surprised no one. RELATED: The DCEU's Biggest Problem Is Behind The Cameraĭirector Cathy Yan has revealed that Warner Bros. The intention, apparently, was to boost box office numbers, but it only served to confirm what skeptical viewers already suspected: Warner botched another DC movie. basically admitted they couldn’t decide what this movie was supposed to be when they changed the title to Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey in the middle of its release. The ensemble element is at odds with Harley omnisciently controlling the movie like the Merc with a Mouth. It’s set up as an ensemble team-up movie but styled as a Deadpool-esque fourth-wall-breaking Harley Quinn solo movie. Throughout its 109-minute runtime, it’s torn between being two different movies. Ultimately, Birds of Prey’s biggest problem is that it can’t decide what it wants to be. Audiences were skeptical about Birds of Prey because it was a direct sequel to Suicide Squad and they’d been let down by the DCEU a bunch of times before. While the virus is obviously a big factor in the movie’s failure to break even at the box office, Sonic managed to pull in blockbuster numbers in the same release window. Harley, Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) will cross paths and the unlikely team has no choice but to work together to take Roman down.Along with Sonic the Hedgehog and Robert Downey, Jr.’s Dolittle, Birds of Prey was one of the last major Hollywood releases before movie theaters were indefinitely closed to accommodate the spread of coronavirus. Gotham is turned upside down as criminals of the city searching for her. Roman Sionis, aka Black Mask (Ewan McGregor), one of Gotham City's most nefarious and narcissistic villains, and his devout right-hand, Zsasz (Chris Messina), have their sights set on a young girl named Cass (Ella Jay Basco). Now other studios are taking notice.īirds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) centers on a story told by Harley Quinn herself, as only Harley can tell it. Deadpool kicked the door open in 2016 for these types of comic book movies. That also makes it the cheapest DCEU movie to date. Birds of Prey, it's also worth mentioning, has a relatively low budget, said to be in the $75 million range. Not being PG-13 didn't seem to hurt it at all. ![]() It has been a tremendous success by virtually any measure. For one, Joker grossed more than $1 billion at the global box office and recently nabbed several Golden Globes nominations. For Warner Bros., this feels like a calculated risk. Joker was also rated R, but the movie didn't take place in the same universe as titles like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Aquaman.
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