Harley calls Sionis and offers to turn Cassandra over in exchange for his protection, agreeing to meet at an abandoned amusement park. Harley's apartment is later bombed by criminals looking for Cassandra, and Doc sorrowfully reveals that he sold Harley out. Having survived her family's massacre and becoming trained as an assassin, Helena has been targeting each of the gangsters responsible for her family's murders, preferring the moniker of "The Huntress". Doc is approached for information by the "crossbow killer", who is revealed to be Helena Bertinelli. Breaking into the GCPD with a variety of firework-inspired non-lethal grenade launcher rounds, Harley frees Cassandra and the pair escape.Īfter escaping, Harley and Cassandra bond while hiding out at the former's apartment. Sionis agrees but also places a bounty on Cassandra. Sionis kidnaps and makes Harley recover the diamond for him, under the threat of death. Zsasz informs Sionis that Cassandra has the diamond, and Dinah warns Montoya. Harley, fleeing from Montoya and several other people she had wronged, is captured by Sionis's men. Young pickpocket Cassandra "Cass" Cain steals the diamond from Zsasz and swallows it after she is arrested. Sionis sends Dinah and his sadistic right-hand-man Victor Zsasz to retrieve a diamond embedded with the account numbers to the fortune of the Bertinelli crime family, who were massacred years ago. She tries to recruit Dinah as an informant, but Dinah rejects the offer. Finding Harley's necklace at the scene of the Ace Chemicals explosion, Montoya notes that Harley is in danger without the Joker's protection. Meanwhile, GCPD Detective Renee Montoya investigates a series of mob killings carried out by a crossbow-wielding vigilante. The next night, Harley blows up the Ace Chemicals plant as a way to publicly announce her breakup with Joker. Sionis is impressed by Dinah's fighting skills and appoints her as his new driver. She meets burlesque singer Dinah Lance, who later rescues an intoxicated Harley from an attempted abduction. Harley gets drunk at a nightclub owned by Roman Sionis, a ruthless crime lord, and cripples his driver after said driver insults her. She is taken in by Doc, the owner of a Taiwanese restaurant, and recovers from her relationship by cutting her hair, adopting a spotted hyena (whom she names after Bruce Wayne), and taking up roller derby. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics for its visual style, Yan's direction, and Robbie's performance, but criticism towards Hodson's screenplay.įour years after the defeat of the Enchantress, the Joker breaks up with Harley Quinn, throwing her out on the Gotham City streets. It grossed $201 million worldwide, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 2020 but falling short of its widely reported break even point of $250–300 million. The film had its world premiere in Mexico City on January 25, 2020, and was theatrically released in the United States in IMAX, Dolby Cinema, and 4DX on February 7, 2020. Additional filming took place in September 2019.īirds of Prey is the second DCEU film and the third DC Films production to be rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America, following Joker (2019). Principal photography lasted from January to April 2019 in Downtown Los Angeles, parts of the Arts District, Los Angeles, and soundstages at Warner Bros. The majority of the cast and crew were confirmed by December 2018. The film was announced in May 2016, with Hodson being hired to write the script that November, followed by Yan signing on to direct in April 2018. Robbie, who also served as producer, pitched the idea for Birds of Prey to Warner Bros. The film follows Harley Quinn, after breaking up with the Joker, joining forces with Helena Bertinelli, Dinah Lance, and Renee Montoya to save Cassandra Cain from Gotham City crime lord Roman Sionis, forming the Birds of Prey altogether. It was directed by Cathy Yan and written by Christina Hodson, and it stars Margot Robbie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rosie Perez, Chris Messina, Ella Jay Basco, Ali Wong, and Ewan McGregor. Pictures, it is the eighth installment in the DC Extended Universe and a follow-up to Suicide Squad (2016). Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is a 2020 American superhero film based on the DC Comics team the Birds of Prey.
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