Ideas are interesting. They may start off as a kernel of one idea before snowballing into something that’s drastically different. But without that original kernel of an idea, the actual end result may never have happened. This seems to be the case for Birds of Prey, a film that was incepted by Robbie back on the set of Suicide Squad. 

As the actress and producer revealed to Collider, Robbie first pitched an idea back then because she liked the idea of Harley interacting with a girl gang and being a part of it.

“I just want it to be like a girl gang for Harley to be a part of,” Robbie told the outlet. “And then obviously I’d been reading a ton of the comics, anything involving Harley, and one of the separate line of comics is the Birds of Prey, which I started reading. And Harley’s not a traditional member of the Birds of Prey, but it was a fun kind of girl gang to kind of dip in and out of, I suppose.”

“It really started with Huntress,” Robbie continued. “I just loved Huntress, and with my initial pitch on the story, I said I wanted to keep it quite contained, get no bigger, and no world-ending stakes. Like the stakes were as big as perhaps mafia level or gang level. That’s when I started reading a lot of Huntress comics, obviously coming from a mafia family, and found her story. Plus, I always gravitate… well, not always, but I do often gravitate towards a revenge story because it is so straight forward, but you are so clearly motivated.”

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But, in a gang, you can’t necessarily just have the rogue characters — you have to have others rounding them out.

“After Huntress, it kind of fleshed out from there,” Robbie explained. “Which other members kind of counterbalance her revenge story, and Harley’s version of what’s right and wrong? You kinda needed a more moral character like Renee Montoya. We needed a cop in there. Canary obviously is so crucial to the Birds of Prey, we really wanted to introduce her as well. And then Cas — Christina [Hodson], the writer, and I actually spoke about a lot of our favorite films, and wanted to pay homage to a few things, but, Leon The Professional was one of them, and we just loved that relationship – the, mentor and mentee, a very unexpected friendship there. We kind of found ourselves gravitating towards that as well.”

Personally, I’m digging the look of Birds of Prey based on the trailer, but we’ll have to wait and see whether or not it actually translates to a solid movie. As we know, DC hasn’t always been successful with their movies, but their bigger risks do seem to have paid off.

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SOURCE: Collider