"Gotham City Sirens" Gets Green Light

While many fans are torn between whether or not Suicide Squad was a good movie (just for the record, I liked it.  Didn't love it, but I thought it was a fun movie) Warner Brothers and DC have decided to go ahead and green light a follow-up movie that will primarily focus on one Harley Quinn.  The title of the movie is, if you haven't already figured it out from the headline of this post, is going to be Gotham City Sirens and it will pair up Margot Robbie with the director of Suicide Squad David Ayer, both seen in the above picture.  Margot Robbie will also be the EP for the film.


The film is said to follow in the footsteps of the comic book of the same name and will feature some of the more popular female villains.  How do we know this?  Well, we don't know this for certain, but Ayer tweeted an illustration of Catwoman, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn with the hashtag #Sirens4ever, so it looks like he's already got a few characters for the movie in mind.  The last time we saw Poison Ivy on the big screen, she was played by Uma Thurman in the movie Batman and Robin, by far the worst Batman movie ever made.  Not because of Thurman, she was actually quite good in a movie that was difficult to watch.  Don't believe me?  I've just got one thing to say about that..."Bat-Nipples."  End of argument.


As for Catwoman, she's gone through a few different incarnations over the years when it comes to movies.  She was first played by Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992's Batman Returns, was then recast for the movie Catwoman in 2004 by Halle Berry, and then the final incarnation of the character came in 2012's The Dark Knight Rises and was played by Anne Hathaway.  If we do get to see Catwoman appear in this film, it will be done by a new actress and will tie her to the bigger DCEU that Warner Brothers has been working on building.


I guess the bigger question is whether or not Batman or the Joker will be making cameo appearances in the film, like they both did in Suicide Squad.  We'll just have to wait and see if more news about the film leaks out before we know.  No news on when it's planning on being released, but I'll keep you informed as news trickles out. 


So that's it for this year!  The next week or so is going to be hectic, so unless something ground-breaking is announced, I'll be back on January 3, 2017.  I hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year!