David Ayer and Margot Robbie helming all female villian DC movie
 

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.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hea...lains-project-

Any movie that has the word "fast-track" attached to it is a red flag.

More Harley from Margot? I'm in.

Harley and Ivy in a live action movie together? You know what that means.

https://images.moviepilot.com/images...bombshells.jpg

What a time to be alive. I bet the LGBT crowd will be "head over heels."

Anyone else think it's weird that WB and Ayer are working together on a DC movie again?

Does this take the place of the Harley Quinn solo movie being produced by Robbie?

Harley was the best thing about Suicide Squad, so I'm in.

Just hope the studio doesn't butcher it like their other films.

Gotta love WB/DC doubling down on directors that delivered mediocre movies that were universally panned. What could go wrong?

They truly have no creative direction of any kind.

It'd be like, they throw out dates for the Flash movie part 1, 2, and 3, and then Iris Allen gets a lot of good buzz when the first one comes out, all of a sudden out of nowhere there's surprise announcements about Iris Allen: The Movie and Iris Allen & Friends: The Movie and now the whole schedule of all the other movies in the lineup have to be rearranged. They are literally throwing **** against the wall and seeing what sticks, every movie in so far.

Lame, dumb, dumb.

They've been firing blindly from day one.

Can't argue with that.

So basically, this will be Gotham Sirens? Ivy, Selina, and Harley? Miiiiiiight be okay. We'll see.

Honestly the concept itself sounds like a load of fun. But since this is the DCEU we're talking about, the finished film will be so reluctant, so unwilling to give the audience "fun" - it's just going to be a dreary, drab tale of incomprehensible misery just like MoS and BvS.

Just watch the old "Gotham Girls" Flash animations from the DCAU days. I'm sure they're way more enjoyable than whatever this film will be.

Oh man, I remember those. They were great!

I'm assuming Robbie pushed for Ayer to get this gig. At least WB has someone else involved with the script.

Eva Green for Catwoman please.

I have some faith in this. There's enough "hook" for a story, enough good source material. Some of my favorite characters. (Reimage Poison Ivy so that she can FINALLY have a decent live-action portrayal, PLEASE!!!)

Whereas I'm not interested in a solo Deadshot flick. At all. But hey, Will Smith...

I haven't seen Gotham, but you'd have to try really, really hard to do worse than Uma Thurman.

David Ayer is a team player. He didn't throw WB under the bus when people were crapping on Suicide Squad, and I bet they appreciate that.

Suicide Squad made over $700 million, and people are wondering why WB isn't sticking with the same director?

What?

Gah. Like I said, we REALLY need a better Poison Ivy on the big screen. Stat.

Because they clearly had no faith in his vision for the movie and had a third party put together a cut of the film. Why would you bring that person back if you didn't like what he did in the first place?

Gotham City Sirens??? What what what??

My fav comic series coming to life? Yaaaasss! :tlove:

Good stuff, there. I think those are bonus features on the "Birds of Prey" DVD set.

I'd like to see a New 52-inspired Poison Ivy. That version of her has a twisted yet somewhat relatable sense of morality that would go nicely with what Robbie does with Harley Quinn.

I hear the costumes are already on their way to the set.

http://i.imgur.com/QVmOEm2.jpg

:P

Ugh rumor has it a Plank of Wood could be Poison Ivy. Seriously Enough Megan Fox

http://comicbook.com/2016/12/14/rumo...gotham-city-s/

Jessica Chastain or bust.

Should it be directed by a woman?

http://www.cbr.com/should-gotham-cit...B-P&view=lista

Good lord, NO! DC's movie quality might be going downhill, but we don't need her to sink this ship. Or mess up what could be Poison Ivy's cinematic big break :(

Megan Fox is perfect for Poison Ivy tbh. :tlove:

If you're going by looks alone, I guess. But personality wise: :dead:

This would give Andrew so much more material for "PD fans = plants".

Fox?
Lady director?

Okay, now you've got me interested.
Can we get a ltttle Karl Urban in there somewhere?

What else did the director direct?

Fox was okay in Jennifer's Body. If there's one thing she can actually play, it's a vamp-type character.

Anything's better than Uma Thurman's cringeworthy Poison Ivy lines in Batman & Robin tbh. :tlol:




Come join me. My garden needs tending.

I'll bring everything you see here... *Plus*, everything you don't!

[at Arkham Asylum with Mr Freeze] Let's cool it for now. There's someone I'd like you to meet.

Mr. Freeze: I need to get more diamonds from my hideout.
Poison Ivy: I can help you grab your rocks.

I'm a lover, not a fighter. That's why every Poison Ivy action figure comes complete with him! (Bane attacks)



So much cheese...

Very true. Vampish seductresss to a T in that movie. And that's pretty much Ivy's whole thing.

You're implying that Uma Thurman had anything to do with the writing...

While this sounds like an absolutely terrible idea to me, I'm willing to give this a chance. After all, its too early to judge and I loved Margot Robbie's performance in the first movie.

I would love Karen Gillian to be Ivy since she is a redhead.

Even though I didn't like the movie, I agree to this. I would hope DC will give her a better script to work with than what the crew behind JB gave her.

She was in Jonah Hex, too. Another sh*t stain of a DC movie.