Birds of Prey
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a 2020 American superhero film based on the DC Comics team Birds of Prey. It is the eighth film in the DC Extended Universe, and a follow-up to Suicide Squad (2016). It was directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christina Hodson, and stars Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Chris Messina, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, and Ewan McGregor. The film follows Harley Quinn as she joins forces with Helena Bertinelli, Dinah Lance, and Renee Montoya to save Cassandra Cain from Gotham City crime lord Black Mask.
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| Running time | 109 minutes
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| Country | United States
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| Budget | $82–100 million
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| Box office | $83.2 million
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Harley Quinn: The inflection in your voice, the way you can't hold eye contact, and the fact that you're a filthy little thief, all suggest that you do. Now, you can give it to me, or I can give you to the man that diamond belongs to. But trust me when I say, you're not going to like what he's going to do to you. Now, hand it over.
Cassandra Cain: Yeah, not going to happen.
(Harley lowers her sunglasses and looks into the camera; aloud)
Harley Quinn: I dare you.
- Jurnee Smollett, who played Black Canary in the movie, is the second actress from the sitcom Full House (1987) to play the character. The first was Lori Loughlin, who played Carolyn Lance/Black Canary in the short-lived television series Birds of Prey (2002).
- When Roman is interrogating Harley at his club he threatens to have her face cut off and pickled... something that the Joker actually did have happen to him (at his own request) at the beginning of the New 52 era of the Batman comics.
- In an interview on The Graham Norton Show (2007), Margot Robbie stated that the original plan did consider using a trained hyena for Harley's pet. Although there was one available, hyenas are extremely territorial, and the production was warned they would not be able to reuse any part of the set the hyena touched. So, instead of an actor in a motion capture suit for full CGI animal, a large dog was used, with CGI enhancement added in post-production. Although cheaper than the other options, the effect was so expensive that the filmmakers could only afford one hyena, instead of the two appearing in the original comics.
- The last DCEU film to use the original Warner Bros. logo (1993-2020).
- Roman keeps an extensive collection of exotic masks, as he did in the comics, even before he adopted his villainous alter ego.
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