Update: According to The Wrap, the movie Hodson is writing for Warner Bros. is in fact Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn spin-off movie.
Christina Hodson is writing Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn spin-off movie
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Usual Suspects, Inglorious Bastards, No Country for Old Men, Clockwork Orange — those were all good villain-centric movies. No, I definitely don’t agree that a great villain-centric story cannot be done, or that a villain only exists to make the hero look better. Of course, a different question is how can WB do something like that and make it audience-friendly? The answer is they can’t. In the comics, Harley is already essentially a hero, fighting villains, and just occasionally killing them. So, in the next movie, she will meet Ivy, fall in love with her, realize that Joker is no good for her, and form Gotham Sirens, or Birds of Prey with some other female characters, and save the poor and the downtrodden of Gotham from generic faceless villains.
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Hm., I just realized that I wrote that comment with an approving tone, which mislead you. That was not my intention, as I LOATH the “good” Harley. I agree that she must remain an anti-role model for girls. She is a psycho and a murderer. But what I’m saying is that she most likely wont remain that way because villains are no good for little girls, as the current industry believes. DC needs to sell its characters, and the parents will not buy toys of a homicidal maniac for their children.
– Mommy, can I have a Harley Quinn doll for my birthday?
– Sure dear, who is she anyway?
– She kills people for funSo when the movie staring her comes out, I guarantee that she will be like Deadpool, whose sole defining anti-hero characteristic is that he kills people who clearly deserve it.
But I’d still love to see a “Joker&Halrey on a mayhem date night” movie ala Clockwork Orange.
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