{"id":43550,"date":"2018-04-17T19:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T23:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=43550"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:38:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:38:34","slug":"birds-of-prey-finds-a-director-suicide-squad-2-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/17\/birds-of-prey-finds-a-director-suicide-squad-2-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"BIRDS OF PREY Script Finds A Director, SUICIDE SQUAD 2 Delayed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birds-of-Prey-and-yan-678x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birds-of-Prey-and-yan.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birds-of-Prey-and-yan-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/>We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/09\/bumblebee-scribe-to-take-over-batgirl\/\">previously told you<\/a> that Warners was impressed with Christina Hodson&#8217;s script for\u00a0<strong>Birds of Prey<\/strong>, but apparently they are so impressed that they are fast-tracking the production, perhaps at the expense of <strong>Suicide Squad 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2018\/04\/harley-quinn-margot-robbie-cathy-yan-birds-of-prey-warner-bros-dc-entertainment-bat-girl-christina-hodson-1202365866\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43552\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Birds-of-Prey-Cathy-Yan-339x254.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"339\" height=\"254\" \/>Deadline<\/a> states that the studio has hired director Cathy Yan to direct an as-yet-untitled film from Hodson&#8217;s <strong>Birds of Prey <\/strong>script.\u00a0 She is the first Asian woman to direct a superhero film.<\/p>\n<p>Yan is a relative novice at the directing game, with only a three short films under her belt and her making her feature film debut this year with the small budget indie <strong>Dead Pigs<\/strong>, which she wrote and directed. She apparently was chosen over a number of other. male directors on the strength of her presentation for the film and Margot Robbie&#8217;s desire to hire a female director for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Her hiring as the director means that the film will go into production this year. What does that mean for\u00a0<strong>Suicide Squad 2<\/strong>? Variety film writer Justin Kroll has the answer, and another reason why Yan&#8217;s film is getting pushed:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As for SUICIDE SQUAD 2, clearly moving out of 2018 shoot. The move to go with BOP not only had a lot to do with Hodson&#39;s script but also the idea of doing with BATGIRL what Marvel did with Black Panther in CIVIL WAR by introducing them into universe before giving them own film<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Justin Kroll (@krolljvar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krolljvar\/status\/986283768418848769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, almost everyone and their brother is pointing out that Warner&#8217;s has already spun off characters from DC Extended Universe films before, namely Wonder Woman from\u00a0<strong>Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/strong> and Harley Quinn from <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong>. <strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking of Ms. Quinn, the article states that the character will be in the film. Fans of the four volumes of the\u00a0<em>Birds of Prey\u00a0<\/em>comic books know that Harley Quinn was never a member of the team.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? Well, the article also says that the film is as yet untitled, meaning it might not be a exclusively a\u00a0<strong>Birds of Prey\u00a0<\/strong>film, and the film is described as a &#8220;girl gang&#8221; movie.<\/p>\n<p>While this could mean anything, my guess would be that the untitled film will not only spin-off into the\u00a0<strong>Batgirl\u00a0<\/strong>film,\u00a0but also set up the still in development\u00a0<strong>Gotham City Sirens\u00a0<\/strong>film. In other words, Batgirl and whatever characters compose the Birds of Prey will face off against Harley Quinn and whatever characters make up the Gotham City Sirens.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that is just an educated guess. Warners could just be treating Harley Quinn as the &#8220;Poochie&#8221; of the DCEU, shoving her into places where she really doesn&#8217;t belong.<\/p>\n<p>More on this as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">BIRDS OF PREY being fast-tracked means films like SUICIDE SQUAD 2 might be getting shuffled. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/17\/birds-of-prey-finds-a-director-suicide-squad-2-delayed\/\" title=\"BIRDS OF PREY Script Finds A Director, SUICIDE SQUAD 2 Delayed?\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":43551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[7274,9751,9765,8663,8412,9766,9767,7009,1057,9764],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comicsandfilm","8":"category-news","9":"tag-batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice","10":"tag-birds-of-prey","11":"tag-cathy-yan","12":"tag-christina-hodson","13":"tag-dc-extended-universe","14":"tag-dead-pigs","15":"tag-justin-kroll","16":"tag-margot-robbie","17":"tag-suicide-squad","18":"tag-uicide-squad-2"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43550"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=43550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}