The NZA Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 hollywood reporter David Ayer is back in the business of DC comics villains. The filmmaker, who directed Warner Bros.’ all-bad guy comic book movie Suicide Squad, is reuniting with that film’s star, Margot Robbie, for Gotham City Sirens, a feature project that will showcase the top female villains from the DC stable, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Ayer will direct and produce the project with Robbie reprising her role as Harley Quinn, the part-time girlfriend of the Joker who is currently DC's most popular female character. Robbie is also executive producing. Sirens was a recent comic series from DC that focused on the popular villainesses from Batman’s rogue gallery. Among them were Quinn, Catwoman, Batman’s sometime love interest, and Poison Ivy, who uses plants and their toxins to get what she wants. Geneva Robertson-Dworet, a top female writer in the action sphere who has also penned scripts for the Tomb Raider remake and Warners' own Sherlock Holmes 3, is writing the screenplay. The heads of DC’s film arm, Geoff Johns and Jon Berg, will also be involved in a producorial role. Suicide Squad was a tough production and the movie underwent some reshoots but it all turned out fine for all parties involved as the movie grossed over $745.6 million global. It is now the 13th highest-grossing superhero release of all-time domestically and has surpassed the international box office of Deadpool, a movie to which it was often compared to in terms of tone. The studio is still developing a Squad sequel as well as looking into a spin-off featuring Deadshot, the assassin character played by Will Smith. But this project was the most furthest along, and with Robbie’s Quinn having received near universal praise from Squad, this was the most natural project for Ayer with which to make his Warners return. The filmmaker is currently nearing the end of principal photography for Bright, his fantasy thriller for Netflix that stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton. Warner doesn’t have a release date for Sirens but the project is now on the fast-track. Ayer is repped by CAA and Sloane Offer. named from the book! nowhere to go but up, DC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatella Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 (edited) I really wanna be excited about this...but...it's DC......... I'm also hoping that it brings a lot more girls/women into the DC fandom and not only in a Hot Topic/Halloween costume kinda way. Not that there's anything wrong with DC Halloween costumes! I just hope they read/watch/experience some of the source material! Edited December 14, 2016 by Donatella 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share Posted December 14, 2016 I really wanna be excited about this...but...it's DC......... yeah, seeing Ayer's name here after how Suicide Squad was received - coupled with Snyder still on Justice League & such - really makes it look like WB is full steam ahead, reception be damned. it's admittedly hard to be too excited when the studio seems to feel the bar is at "anything better than green lantern" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visitant Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 Snyder is "taking a break" from DC. They've tried to make it sound very nice "he's got other projects to work on etc" but it really does sound like Johns and the crew very politely asked him to take a step back from DC for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share Posted December 14, 2016 really? who's doing JL then? and man it's weird hearing Johns so high up the chain, like i can't picture Bendis really having much say on the set of the next marvel movie (though he'd adore that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donatella Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 (edited) Found this and a couple other articles all saying the same thing. He's still on JL and he'll eventually do JL2 but that'll be the last of it. And JL2 is being pushed back so Affleck's Batman can come in between. After steering the DC Extended Universe ship since Man of Steel, Zack Snyder is taking a break from superheroes and will pursue production on a new war thriller The Last Photograph in between Justice League and its untitled sequel Justice League 2. Replacing the latter in DC’s schedule will be Ben Affleck’s yet-untitled Batman movie. I wonder how long it'll be for JL2 and if he's really gonna be involved. Maybe JL's reception will be the test. Edited December 14, 2016 by Donatella Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted December 14, 2016 Author Share Posted December 14, 2016 ^geeez, that's...optimistic. regardless of how WW does (still hopeful!), if JL 1 is nearly as bad as BvS, i'll be shocked if we don't see a huge reshuffling the way sony did with those annual spidey movie plans after amazing 2 was butt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I'm cool with Ayers moving forward, though I hope this movie doesn't stop him from doing Suicide Squad. I just hope WB learned their lesson and will leave him the fuck alone now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Visitant Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 I wonder how long it'll be for JL2 and if he's really gonna be involved. Maybe JL's reception will be the test. Yeah, that's the thing. The articles I went over, it sounds very...polite, like face-saving polite. "hey bro, so things are not looking good here why don't you say you're...working on other movies and we will try and fix this". Might be wishful thinking, but that's my theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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