Wild New Trailer for DC's BIRDS OF PREY; Margot Robbie Explains That It Has a Nonlinear Structure
We’ve got a new trailer to share with you today for DC’s Birds of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). The trailer is packed full of wild and action-packed new footage. While I’m not very excited about this movie, this trailer is probably the best one that has been released. It also features Ewan McGregor’s Black Mask wearing his comic-accurate mask and costume.
In a recent interview with Variety, Margot Robbie talked about the film and revealed that the story will be structured in a nonlinear way. She explained:
“We work in a similar way. We pulled a lot of references from the comics that we love, from different movies we love — we were really gravitating toward the idea of not having such a formulaic sort of structure, ‘Trainspotting’ being of one of our favorite films. We would look at a movie like that, and then we’d break it down scene by scene, minute by minute. And funnily enough, it follows a three-act structure to the T, like, to the page, to the minute.
“So we would look at a lot of films like that, like: ‘How did they achieve this feeling of this beautiful chaos, but within it, everything feels satisfying?”’So the nonlinear aspect of the film came from those sorts of conversations.
“It’s nonlinear. It jumps around. And then it becomes linear for the third act. You go on a ride, and it’s all pretty chronological from there.”
The film comes from director Cathy Yan, and the movie also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Canary, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain, and Rosie Perez as Renee Montoya. Here’s the synopsis for the movie:
Since the events of Suicide Squad, Batman has disappeared, leaving Gotham City unprotected from crime, and Harley Quinn has left the Joker. When Cassandra Cain, a young girl, comes across a diamond belonging to crime lord Black Mask, Harley joins forces with Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to help protect her.
The movie will be released in theaters on February 7th, 2020.