HARLEY QUINN, POISON IVY, & CATWOMAN ALL TO STAR IN GOTHAM CITY SIRENS!!


Warner Bros and their DC Extended Universe (DCEU) movies are off to a much slower start than Marvel’s MCU (Doctor Strange was MCU #14, Suicide Squadwas DC’s #3). DC Comics does have Marvel “beat” in one aspect, however, and that’s in representation of female leads, with their fourth film being next year’s Wonder Woman (6/2/17), while Marvel won’t have a solo female lead until their 21st movie, Captain Marvel (3/8/19) (#20 if you count Ant-Man and the Wasp on 7/6/18). 

 That commitment to female lead characters was confirmed earlier this year when it was revealed that Margot Robbie was going to produce a spinoff movie for her Suicide Squadi character Harley Quinn. This week, we learned the title of that spinoff, and it’s more than just the expected “Harley Quinn solo movie.” That’s because it’s called Gotham City Sirens, which means there will be two other DC Comics villains in lead roles: Catwoman and Poison Ivy. 

 Neither character has appeared in the new DCEU, but then, there have only been three movies thus far, and only one which had any Batman supervillains (Suicide Squad). Of course, Anne Hathaway did play Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, and that was only four years ago, and we’re already getting a new Catwoman in a few years (just like we “already” got a new Batman this year). 

 Gotham City Sirens will be a reunion project for Margot Robbie and her Suicide Squad director David Ayer (which has led some blogs to question why a mostly-female supervillain movie has a male director). There’s also the question of whether Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy will be portrayed as a romantic couple, as they currently are in their DC Comics. As for who might join Margot Robbie in Gotham City Sirens, a rumor quickly sprouted online this week based on Megan Fox’s earlier statements that she wants to play the next Poison Ivy.

It should be noted that Warner Bros is still developing a Suicide Squad sequel, and is considering a spinoff movie for Will Smith’s Deadshot. In other Margot Robbie news, filming of her Tonya Harding movie is getting closer to production, with the news this week that Sebastian Stan (Marvel’s “Winter Soldier”) has been cast as Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillolly (and the one who hired the knee-attacker). On top of that, Moms star Alison Janney has been cast as Harding’s own… mom.  It’s not yet known who will be playing Nancy Kerrigan.Thoughts?? 

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