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A twisted tale told by Harley Quinn herself, when Gotham's most nefariously narcissistic villain, Roman Sionis, and his zealous right-hand, Zsasz, put a target on a young girl named Cass, the city is turned upside down looking for her. Harley, Huntress, Black Canary and Renee Montoya's paths collide, and the unlikely foursome have no choice but to team up to take Roman down.

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  • Release in Cinemas: 2020-02-07
  • Rating: 6.1
  • Runtime: 109 min minutes
  • directors: Cathy Yan

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  1. When Harley Quinn is leaving the police precinct, she points to a wanted poster and says, "Hey, I know that guy!". The wanted poster is that of Captain Boomerang, with whom she worked in Suicide Squad (2016).
  2. Jurnee Smollett does her own singing in the film.
  3. When Harley remembers her heart being broken before she met the Joker, she recalls two guys and one girl - and the girl is animated in exactly the style of Poison Ivy in Batman: The Animated Series (1992).
  4. Harley adopts a hyena in this film as a pet. In Batman: The Animated Series (1992) and the comics, she kept two hyenas named Bud and Lou (named after comic duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello).
  5. Harley Quinn is one of the most famous unreliable narrators in the DC universe across all platforms. As such, there is a popular fan theory that the beanbags Harley uses in the police station sequence are actually bullets and the confetti is blood; unable to deal with the guilt of the massacre, Harley sees herself merely harming the officers rather than killing them.
  6. Being produced under the working title of "Fox Force Five." Fox Force Five was the name of a fictional television show that never made it past the production of its pilot in the movie Pulp Fiction (1994).
  7. The shot of Harley Quinn as a roller-skater is lifted straight from 2013's Harley Quinn #1, and she has a number "92" - referencing the year of her debut in Batman: The Animated Series (1992).
  8. Dinah Lance - aka Black Canary - has inherited her powers from her mother. This is a nod to the comics, where Black Canary remained active and youthful for so long that DC retconned there to have been two: a mother and a daughter, both named Dinah.
  9. In Montoya's room when she receives the text from Black Canary there is a woman in a clown suit playing on the TV on her dresser. This is a scene from Days of Our Lives (1965) and the actor is Arleen Sorkin. Not only is Arleen the original voice of Harley Quinn on Batman: The Animated Series (1992) but THIS SCENE was the inspiration for the character of Harley. Paul Dini, who was friends with Arleen, saw the scene one day when he was home sick and was inspired to create the character with Arleen's voice in mind.
  10. Harley only has a single hyena rather than two because the effects for its photorealistic animation were so intensive they could only afford one.
  11. The Penguin was originally intended to be the main antagonist of the movie, but was scrapped due to his appearance in The Batman (2022) portrayed by Colin Farrell.
  12. Margot Robbie pitched the idea of Birds of Prey to DC and Warner Bros. as a female-led superhero action movie and they agreed with her vision. "I think there's a perception that a PG female-led action film is kind of considered a chick flick," says Robbie, which is why we're going to see an R-rated version of the story. In addition to starring in the upcoming movie, Robbie is also on board as producer with her LuckyChap production company, so her hands are all over the project. Birds of Prey is LuckyChap's largest project to date at $75 million.
  13. Before Ewan McGregor was cast as Black Mask, Nicolas Cage, Sharlto Copley and Sam Rockwell were considered to play Black Mask. Rockwell passed on the role, but was considered the "archetype" for the casting.
  14. When Bruno Oliver booked the role of short order cook Sal he had no idea how significant Sal and his breakfast sandwich were to the story. "You couldn't tell from the audition necessarily and as actors, we always worry about our scenes being cut," Oliver notes. "I really didn't understand the place the egg sandwich had in the movie until I saw it."
  15. Just as in the comics, Black Mask is obsessed with heads and masks. His thugs all don crazy masks in their attack on Amusement Mile, hinting at their being the "False Face Society" from the comics.
  16. When Cassandra Cain is in the police station, she's asked by Montoya if she can speak. In the Batman comics, Cassandra doesn't talk because she was raised by her "father" to focus on the language of body movements to make her a more skilled fighter.
  17. The egg sandwich that is made for Harley Quinn is not made with chicken eggs, but instead with duck eggs, as Margot Robbie is allergic to chicken egg whites (she gets migraines from them) so the production had to provide duck eggs to avoid an allergic reaction.
  18. It has been rumored that Birds of Prey (2020) will be the second movie of a "Harley Quinn Trilogy". The first movie was Suicide Squad (2016) and the third movie is to be Gotham City Sirens.
  19. Both Bernie the Beaver and Harley's pet hyena are established parts of Harley Quinn lore. As in Birds of Prey, the comic book version of Bernie is a stuffed animal who, Harley is convinced can talk (he's even had his own character arcs). Harley Quinn's hyenas, meanwhile, were introduced in Batman: The Animated Series and made the jump over to the comics with their mistress. They're traditionally named Bud and Lou, after Abbott and Costello, but those names were picked by the Joker and really wouldn't work in a film where Harley is getting over her ex. The DCEU hyena is called Bruce - after "that hunky Wayne guy." Harley clearly has quite a thing for Bruce Wayne, even wearing the name "Bruce" on a dog tag.
  20. The rival mafia don who kills the Bertinellis is Don Galante. In the comics the Galante family are one of Gotham's five mob families that make up the city's La Cosa Nostra.
  21. ACE Chemicals is an established part of the DCEU, with this specific location appearing in Suicide Squad. Billy Batson practiced his superpowers at another ACE Chemicals plant in Shazam! as well. Later in the film, when Harley needs a place to arrange a meet, she chooses the Joker's turf - Amusement Mile. An abandoned amusement park in North Gotham, this is traditionally the Joker's base of operations, most famous for its role in The Killing Joke. It seems the Joker has decided to leave that for Harley, because he's taken all his equipment out and left a crate packed with Harley's few belongings. Look carefully, and you'll spot "HAHAHAHAHAH" scrawled on one window in a similar style to the Joker's laugh in The Dark Knight Returns. It also resembles the distinctive tattoos on Leto's Joker.
  22. Harley Quinn was introduced on the big screen in Suicide Squad (2016) with Margot Robbie portraying her and giving birth to the creation of millions of Harley Quinn Halloween costumes. With this new chapter comes a different look for her character. Quinn won't be seen as an object of desire, which is very much on purpose. "That's what happens when you have a female producer, director, writer," says Birds of Prey costume designer Erin Benach. Robbie added, "Yeah, it's definitely less male gaze-y." Robbie had discussed how uncomfortable her outfits were for Suicide Squad, so that has all been altered for this film.
  23. Harley is happy to remove her various Joker tattoos over the course of the film, with the "J" turned into a mermaid and "Cups" added to the word "Puddin." The mermaid is probably a nod to the Gotham City Sirens.
  24. Roman's "fuck family" rant is the closest this character feels to his earliest comics appearances, where he resented his parents and actually created his mask from the wood of his father's coffin.
  25. In the comics, Barbara Gordon was one of the founding members of the Birds of Prey, first as Oracle and later as Batgirl in the New 52 reboot. While Gordon doesn't appear in the film, Cassandra Cain, who served as Batgirl in the comics for a time prior to the New 52 reboot, does appear.
  26. During the flashbacks to her violent past, we see Helena in a church, praying with a rosary. In the comics, Helena is a devout Catholic who carries a rosary on her, even when in costume.
  27. In the comics, Cassandra Cain was mute when she first appeared, and only gradually acquired the ability to speak. In Cassandra's first scene in the police station, it seems at first that the movie version might also be mute, but then she coughs to clear her throat and speaks normally for the rest of the film.
  28. Renee Montoya is presented in a more comic book-accurate fashion, right down to being the DCEU's first out lesbian character. She appears to end Birds of Prey as an active vigilante, perhaps taking up her comic book codename "The Question." The last scene shows both Black Canary and Huntress in familiar costumes from the comics.
  29. Victor Zsasz working for Roman Sionis is inspired by the "Hush Money" Streets of Gotham arc, where Black Mask took Zsasz under his patronage and funded his gladiatoral slaughterhouse in exchange for helping save Mask's life from Firefly.
  30. Margot Robbie has talked about the film's stunts in previous interviews. She was really proud of the work of the entire cast and crew for bringing the experience home for the people watching in theaters. "There are so many. Recently I can't talk about them, since the movie isn't out yet. There's a lot of really cool stunts in the Birds of Prey movie. Quite a few of them, I couldn't do, because they were just too risky. But no, I'm constantly amazed by stunt performers. One of my brothers is actually a stuntman, so I have a deep appreciation for it."
  31. This interpretation of Sionis is an interesting take on his ties to Bruce Wayne. In some comics, Bruce and Roman were 'friends' as children (or at least the Sionis parents wanted to associate with the Waynes to boost their own social standing), which leads to Sionis becoming the criminal version of Batman with varying degrees of skill. In this adaptation, while Sionis sets out to present an intimidating persona to Gotham's criminals in his 'Black Mask' guise, in practice he is a petty spoiled playboy who represents what Bruce Wayne could be if he really was the rich idiot he pretends to be while having absolutely no thought for the consequences beyond what benefits him.
  32. Each Action Girl of the film has her own distinct close combat style: Harley uses gymnastics. Huntress uses shoulder throws. Black Canary favors kicks. Renee Montoya prefers punches.
  33. Harley's dad traded her in for a case of beer, the beer is called "DINI," a reference to Harley's creator Paul Dini.
  34. Most of Harley's outfits in the movie are street clothes, but during the Booby Trap fight scene, Renee Montoya wears a bustier that's directly inspired by her Animated Series look. Similarly, when Dinah pulls out Harley's Suicide Squad t-shirt, Harley briefly talks about surviving a bomb in the neck, an obvious nod to her time with the Suicide Squad which kept its members in line by implanting bombs in each of their necks.
  35. The day before shooting his scene, Bruno Oliver practiced cooking the actual sandwich. "It was definitely one of the oddest preparations as an actor I've done," he recalls. "I spent the night destroying my kitchen making egg sandwiches over and over and over again." And while he did make the sandwich in main takes, the close-up "food porn" shots were done by the catering chef. "There are little things I can't do like crack two eggs with one hand."
  36. Black Canary appears in a nightclub dress with a fishnet design. In the comics, Black Canary's classic superhero outfit involves fishnet stockings.
  37. 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.
  38. This is the second film in which Margot Robbie skates to the song "Barracuda" the first being I, Tonya (2017).
  39. The sequence in the funhouse slide where Mary Elizabeth Winstead is taking on one of the armed villains, and they collide before she rides down, the cut in that scene is real because the stuntman collided with the camera person.
  40. Cathy Yan is the first Asian woman to direct a superhero movie. She is second woman to direct a DC film after Patty Jenkins.
  41. This is the first theatrically released film in the DC Extended Universe to be Rated R, although the Ultimate Edition of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) was given the R rating by the MPAA, and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) has an R rating, as well.
  42. Jurnee Smollett was inspired by Black Canary as seen in the videogame Injustice 2 (2017) for her role in this movie.
  43. 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.
  44. Two cops in the film are named Dimm and Tini, referencing Harley's creators Bruce Timm and Paul Dini.
  45. When Harley is in the car with the Bruce the hyena in the backseat, a dog was used in the scene. The dog was changed to look like a hyena in post-production.
  46. Renee is the first canonically gay character in either a Marvel or DC movie and when we're introduced to her ex-girlfriend (played by Ali Wong) it's a nod to the queer history of the character who once dated Kate Kane's Batwoman.
  47. At one point, Harley suffers a concussion and dreams herself into a classic musical interlude in which she plays Marilyn Monroe singing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend." The whole thing is an homage to 1953's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. This isn't the first time Ewan McGregor has appeared in an adaptation of that number. It was also featured in Moulin Rouge!, with McGregor's character falling in love with Nicole Kidman's Satine during the song, Nicole Kidman was in Batman Forever (1995). She played psychiatrist Chase Meridian.
  48. In an interview with UPROXX, Rosie Perez admitted that while she would want to be involved in a possible sequel, there was one particular part of the narrative of Birds of Prey that rubbed her the wrong way. "I mean, if [the sequel] happens, sure. When you said that, the first thing that came to my mind was, "Oh my God, I have to lose weight and get in shape again." Hopefully, there won't be any ageist type of jokes in it as well. Having me called "grandma." That was the only thing, I was like, "Really guys? Really?" I was like, "Would you have the nerve to say that to Helen Mirren, in her 50 million action movies?"...It is what it is, but you have to take the chance, be brave enough to call it out and be ready for the consequences. I have been and I will be." Interestingly, the fact that the character of Renee Montoya was being played by an older woman was touted as part of the feminist appeal of 'Birds of Prey'. In the comics, the character of Montoya is portrayed as a young police officer, who moonlights as the anti-hero Question. Some comics purists revolted against the idea of Montoya being portrayed as a middle-aged woman in the Birds of Prey movie. They were not the only ones to take issue with the casting of Rosie Perez. In an interview given in the days following the release of the film, Perez recalled how the studio wanted to hire someone younger for the role of Montoya, and it was director Cathy Yan who rallied by her side. "Cathy Yan called me up and she was very honest with me. She said that the studio was not really keen on casting me, and that it was because of my age. I think that they were worried about presenting a more mature Renee Montoya, but also, I think they would say were worried about the physicality that was needed to pull it off. But she said, 'I want you and if you're ready to fight, I'm ready to fight.' She explained to me the point of view of the movie was of the emancipation of women, and forming an all girls gang. I said, 'I am in, this is my role, you could tell them I said that,' and she did. I went to Warner Brothers and met with everybody and they said, 'you know what, we were wrong. The role is yours.'"
  49. There's a throwaway mention of Robinson Park, a classic Batman location named after Jerry Robinson, the man who co-created the Joker.
  50. In one scene, Harley Quinn comments that she knows Gotham's East Side better than anyone. This is the poorest part of Gotham, and the notorious Crime Alley - site of the Wayne murders - is situated there. The Joker has never been massively active in the East Side, so this may hint that the nun orphanage Harley went to as a child was situated there. Of course, Harley Quinn isn't necessarily a reliable narrator, so the nuns may not have been quite so bad as she claims.
  51. Harley uses a M79 Grenade Launcher loaded with a variety of less-lethal rounds during her assault on the police station. The flip-up sight is removed and the weapon decorated with various markings, including the words "Fun Gun" on the barrel.
  52. Director Cathy Yan framed a scene between Harley and Cassandra as an ode to the same circumstance scene (forced apartment eviction) in Léon: The Professional (1994).
  53. During the film, Harley is seen dressed as Marilyn Monroe's character from 1953's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." The big change here is that Quinn has an updated version of the gown with pants instead. Costume designer Erin Benach told Insider they almost did a completely different outfit for Quinn here. "It wasn't even really on the page or decided amongst us that it would be the same Marilyn outfit," said Benach "There were talks of it being something totally different and new, like way more Harley." The idea to transform the iconic look and update it came to Benach while in a research library. "I remember the moment where I just went, 'Oh my God, the best idea is just to take the exact Marilyn outfit and put her in pants. Turn it into pants,'" said Benach. "It was just a light bulb moment. It hit and I told [director] Cathy [Yan] and Cathy was like, 'Brilliant. Done. Do it.'"
  54. It is said frequently that Renee Montoya talks/acts as if in an 80's cop show. When running after Harley, Montoya growls in homage to Sgt Belker from 80's police drama 'Hill Street Blues'.
  55. Both Lady Shiva and Katana were rumored to be in the film. Karen Fukuhara would have reprised her role as Katana from Suicide Squad (2016).
  56. Sionis rants about his family background. He should have inherited the Janus Corporation, which is shown several times in the background (usually with the "J" blocked). Janus was also the parent company of ACE Chemicals in the comics. There's actually a Janus Corporation Easter egg in Justice League, when Batman and a Parademon fight on a sign for Janus Cosmetics.
  57. Production designer Jerry Robinson makes a cameo as Dr. Aguilar, the scientist who gives Black Mask a Botox injection.
  58. Huntress has the least screen time of the Birds, but she has become the most popular of them, causing many to demand a standalone Huntress film.
  59. Officer Timm Dan Cole is named after Bruce Timm, the co-creator of Batman: The Animated Series (1992), where Harley Quinn made her debut.
  60. Dinah uses Harley's bat from Suicide Squad (2016) as her weapon during the fight in The Booby Trap.
  61. This is one of two female lead, female-directed comic book movies to come out in 2020. The other being Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) directed by Patty Jenkins. Additionally, Black Widow (2021) directed by Cate Shortland and Eternals (2021) directed by Chloé Zhao were both originally slated for 2020 before being pushed back due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
  62. The first live-action film appearance of Renee Montoya, a character introduced in Batman: The Animated Series (1992). A previous live-action version appeared on Gotham (2014) played by Victoria Cartagena. A similar character, Anna Ramirez, appeared in The Dark Knight (2008) played by Monique Gabriela Curnen.
  63. Before Mary Elizabeth Winstead was cast, Cristin Milioti, Margaret Qualley, and Sofia Boutella were rumored to be in the running for the role of Huntress. Previously, Alexandra Daddario had been rumored as well.
  64. The oil tanker that Harley used the blow up Ace Chemicals, has "Valdes" written on the side, a reference to the Exxon Valdez oil spill that happened in Alaska in 1989.
  65. Toward the end of the film, Harley uncovers a chest of her old things - grenades, her old Suicide Squad outfit, and most crucially, her old corset. Though Harley most notably wore a corset in her New 52 reimagining, the corset is also notably reminiscent of her original full body harlequin outfit.
  66. The film poster is a take on the painting "The Birth of Venus" by Sandro Botticelli. The painting is located in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
  67. Huntress' origin story is loosely adapted from Jerry Robinson's Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood limited series, where she was a member of the Bertinelli family who witnessed her entire family being slaughtered by a rival Gotham gang. The Huntress: Year One miniseries established she was trained in Sicily, but most of the other details have been switched up.
  68. In the DC Comics, Cassandra Cain is the daughter of Lady Shiva and David Cain who train her to be an assassin.
  69. John Leguizamo had discussions for the part of Victor Zsasz before Chris Messina was cast. While James Badge Dale, Woody Harrelson, Matthew Fox and Ed Skrein were considered for the part.
  70. 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).
  71. The shelf full of weapons Harley chooses from is a reference to Pulp Fiction (1994).
  72. Helena's Huntress mask has retractable lenses similar to Selina Kyle's in The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
  73. Before Jurnee Smollett was cast, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Janelle Monáe were rumored to be in the running for Black Canary. Previously, Vanessa Kirby, Jodie Comer, and Blake Lively were rumored as well.
  74. Roman keeps an extensive collection of exotic masks, as he did in the comics, even before he adopted his villainous alter ego.
  75. The last DCEU film to use the original Warner Bros. logo (1993-2020).
  76. There are several nods to Tom Taylor's much-loved Injustice series, notably in the entire dynamic between Harley and Black Canary. This is most obviously called out when Harley storms into the police station, complete with an actual quote. "I'd like to report a terrible crime," Harley quips, before unleashing mayhem on the GCPD
  77. Live-action debut of Cassandra Cain. She is the first character to have a solo ongoing series as Batgirl in 2000. Cain has also taken the aliases of Black Bat, Kasumi and currently, Orphan.
  78. In honor of the film hitting digital, Bruno Oliver showed journalists how to make the sandwich his character makes in the movie. The recipe takes bacon, eggs, American cheese and bread Oliver recommends ciabatta so there are "nooks and crannies for the gooey eggness to go into." Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Oliver had to go to four different stores within the week to find all the ingredients.
  79. Out of the main five characters, Helena, Harley, Renee, and Cassandra are all relative newcomers to the Gotham corner of the DC universe (given that it's eighty years old). Helena Bertinelli was created in 1989 to replace Helena Wayne who was previously Huntress before the Crisis on Infinite Earths reboot in 1986. Harley and Renee were created in 1992 for Batman: The Animated Series (1992). Renee appeared in the main DC Universe a few months before she was in the show but Harley didn't make the move until 1999. That was the same year that Cassandra was created for the "Batman: No Man's Land" Batfamily Crossover. Black Canary is the only "classic" character being used (created in 1947) but Dinah (Laurel) Lance didn't get powers or take over for her mother (Dinah Drake Lance) until 1983. All of them are beating much older characters to appearing in this universe like Dick Grayson or Barbara Gordon.
  80. Ella Jay Basco, who plays Cassandra Cain, drew the designs on her character's cast.
  81. Cinematic debut of DC Comics heroes Huntress and Black Canary, the latter after being adapted several times for live-action television.
  82. Before having the part for Huntress, Mary Elizabeth Winstead was considered for the role of Harley Quinn in Suicide Squad (2016).
  83. Roman Sionis's car he gets chauffered in is a 1956 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith.
  84. The lawyer whose name is scratched out on Harley's business card is "Lawrence J. Zerner" who is a real Hollywood lawyer and former actor (as Larry Zerner), best known as Shelly from Friday the 13th Part III (1982).
  85. The eighth film in the DC Extended Universe.
  86. It is mentioned several times that Harley Quinn is a trained psychiatrist and twice that she has a PhD. It is not required for a psychiatrist to have a PhD., but only a M.D. degree. Harley Quinn does tell Cassandra Cain that she graduated from medical school, which awards the M.D. degree. It is never mentioned what Harley's PhD. is in.
  87. Harley is shown to be obsessed with food throughout the movie. She is always looking for something to eat when she's not fighting bad guys, such as pursuing a bacon, egg, and American cheese sandwich, taking refuge at a Taiwanese food shop where she orders extra-spicy Mongolian beef and robbing a grocery store because she's out of groceries (despite living above a restaurant).
  88. Harley take on Black Mask at the so-called "Founders Pier" though that isn't a location we know from Gotham City, it seems like it could be a mashup of Founders Island in the Arkham series of games and Gotham Pier in various Batman movies and comics. That's not the only landmark familiar to gamers, as Amusement Mile, the location of the Funhouse is a key location in the North East of Gotham in both the Batman comics and the award-winning Batman: Arkham games.
  89. Batman stays out of Gotham, for once, not even having a cameo but still getting mentioned at least twice. In fact, he seems to be absent, as Sionis is stated to have basically controlled the entire city. It's left to a trio of women who would form the Birds plus a reformed supervillain to take him down. Commissioner James Gordon and Detective Crispus Allen, both from GCPD and introduced in Justice League, are also conspicuously absent.
  90. When Black Canary goes into the building where she lives a sign with the logo JANUS for the Janus Corporation is on the left side of the entryway and the first letter 'J' is crossed out, leaving the rest of the word open.
  91. Gail Simone, considered the definitive writer of the team, wanted to use Cass for the Birds of Prey but couldn't due to executive veto. After all these years, Cass finally made her big screen debut in this movie and is a member of the team.
  92. It was announced in July 2019 that the film would be rated R.
  93. The first DC Extended Universe film to not be in 3D.
  94. One of Sionis's goons in the funhouse near the end was dressed like DC Comics character, B'wana Beast.
  95. Lady Gaga was offered a lead role in the film, but she turned down the offer.
  96. During the animated recap of her life, we see Harley Quinn's black-and-red costume as she rises from the vat in Ace Chemicals.
  97. This is the second collaboration between Ewan McGregor and Mary Elizabeth Winstead after working together on season 3 of Fargo (2014). In 2021, it was announced that McGregor and Winstead have welcomed a baby boy, their first child together.
  98. Although he was considered for many roles over the years, including main roles in Batman Forever (1995), Batman Begins (2005), Ant-Man (2015) and Doctor Strange (2016), this is the first time Ewan McGregor has appeared in a comic book film.
  99. Ellen Yee is named after Ellen Yin, the Asian Gotham City police officer in The Batman (2004).
  100. Notice a katana in Harley's box of arsenal at Amusement Mile (she worked with Katana in Suicide Squad). While this is unlikely to be Katana's actual blade, it suggest Harley liked the weapon and wanted one of her own.
  101. Anthony Carrigan, who portrayed Victor Zsasz on Gotham (2014), expressed his excitement at seeing Chris Messina's take on the character.
  102. Harley mentioning that she once stole "Eleanor Roosevelt's nudes" for the Joker is especially funny because the first lady was actually introduced in to the DC universe canon as a character in 1981's All-Star Squadron #3.
  103. In describing Renee Montoya, Harley Quinn says she was raised on 80s cop shows. Montoya's boss in the film is played by Steven Williams, who also played a captain on 80s cop show 21 Jump Street (1987).
  104. The Logo Joke depicts a frowny face on the DC logo. In one sense it represents Harley having a bad time at the beginning, but in another sense it represents Harley doing her best to distace herself from a villain whose trademark is a smile.
  105. Renee Montoya and Cassandra Cain are referred to by their civilian names, while the rest are introduced by their code names (Harley Quinn instead of Harleen Quinzel, Black Canary instead of Dinah Lance, and Huntress instead of Helena Bertinelli). Then again, neither Cassandra nor Renee use their comic book superhero identities in this story anyway. On the villains side, Roman is only ever referred to as Black Mask once.
  106. The "famous Gotham artist" who made Roman's statue could be the Bat-family villain Grotesque or the Batman (1966) villain known as the Clock King who pretends to be an artist when he isn't committing bizarre time-based crimes.
  107. The New 52 era of DC Comics actually reinvented Black Canary to be a singer in a punk rock band. We see echos of that idea here where she's a lounge singer for Roman's club.
  108. Ewan McGregor's recent previous cinematic outing was in Doctor Sleep (2019) where he played a character who has a mantra, when he saw ghosts, would be "False face!" Here, he plays a character who leads a gang called the False Face Society in the comics, and whose gimmick is wearing "false faces" (masks) to cover their real identity.
  109. A follow-up was planned by Cathy Yan, which would see a team-up between Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. However, the project is now uncertain now that Margot Robbie wants to make a Harley Quinn solo film with The Suicide Squad (2021) director James Gunn.
  110. Helena/Huntress's motorcycle is a Triumph Speed Triple S.
  111. Peyton Elizabeth Lee was rumored for the role of Cassandra Cain.
  112. In the scene where Harley Quinn walks into a pet store and sees a pig and hyena in their cages, the set consisted of a wood floor, high ceilings, and glass window storefront. The set was decorated with taxidermy animals, stuffed animals in cages, and live animals. The animals were loaded, one by one, into their enclosures. There was a vulture on a wood perch; a pig was housed in a wire cage; a python and lizard in a tank; a dog and cat also in cages; a capuchin monkey in wire cage; a parrot with a perch; and a fox.
  113. Harley's favorite nickname for Joker, "Puddin," gets a shoutout during her break up story
  114. Harley destroying Ace Chemicals is similar to Batman (1989) when he destroys Axis Chemicals.
  115. We don't get to see too much of Gotham's landmarks no Wayne Manor, no Gotham Zoo, no Crime Alley in Birds of Prey, but we did get a couple of set-pieces that take place in classic territory. Ace Chemicals is the most obvious locale. Harley blows up the factory, where a man named Jack Napier turned into the Joker in Batman (1989), as a "middle finger" to her former beau. Amusement Mile, meanwhile, provided the setting for the movie's final act, and was often seen as a haunt for Harley and Joker in Batman: Arkham City.
  116. The actresses for Huntress and Black Canary have worked with the actresses playing the other's Arrowverse counterparts. Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Katie Cassidy were main cast members of Black Christmas (2006), while Jurnee Smollett and Jessica De Gouw were main cast members of Underground (2016).
  117. Dinah tells Cassandra to be more careful or that next time she might pickpocket the wrong guy. The next time we see her, she proceeds to do just that.
  118. Birds of Prey was filmed between January and April of 2019. After director Cathy Yan's first cut/director's cut was edited and shown to Warner Bros. Pictures studio executives and producers, they had mixed reactions on it. It was then test screened to an audience sometime in summer of 2019, and although there was some positive reactions, vast majority of test screening audience hated the film, specially all the action sequences and original ending, in which it was revealed that the diamond Cassandra Cain stole contained private explicit pictures of Black Mask. Warner Bros. then demanded massive re-shoots of the film, and in August of 2019 Chad Stahelski was brought in to direct all the new action sequences, and reportedly either Yan or someone else directed all the other new scenes, which caused the budget to rise up.
  119. Coincidentally, the unit publicist for "Birds of Prey" is Heidi Falconer.
  120. Johnny Goth a California-based musician, was temporarily tapped to stand in as the Joker. "I knew a few people working on the film and they had heard they needed someone to be the Joker and thought it would be sick if I did it," Goth told Earshot Media. "They needed someone with similar hands to Leto's Joker and someone who would fit the costumes so I just came in and turned out to be the same sizes and they gave me the part. We filmed about a month after." Taking on the role did come with a bit of pressure, from the musician's perspective. "There were big shoes to fill taking on this role as someone with no experience but we had a good time and I hope to make my way back to the big screen soon," he said.
  121. Harley and Cass camp out in her apartment watching Looney Tunes on TV while hiding from the cops. When Harley breaks into the police station she happens to be wearing a very Bugs Bunny "disguise." Bugs Bunny is also owned by Warner Brothers.
  122. Montoya's revolver is a Smith & Wesson Model 36.
  123. Harley and Cassandra are watching a Tweety and Sylvester cartoon, and there's a Porky Pig VHS tape on top of the TV, this is not just a cool Warner Bros. animation nod, but also pays homage to the fact that the film really feels like a live action Looney Tunes cartoon.
  124. Rosie Perez costarred with Kaley Cuoco in HBO Max series The Flight Attendant. Kaley Cuoco voices Harley Quinn in the DC Animated series Harley Quinn. Kaley Cuoco's Big Bang Theory costar Mellisa Raunch voiced Harley Quinn in the DC Animated Film Batman and Harley Quinn.
  125. Victor Zsasz uses a two-tone Sphinx 3010 pistol.
  126. Jurnee Smollett and Ella Jay Basco's Uncle/Godfather Dante Basco had worked with the late Robin Williams in 1996's Jack and 1991's Hook respectively. Williams was considered early on for the role of The Riddler in Batman Forever (1995).
  127. Both Jurnee Smollett and Ella Jay Basco were in at least one Grey's Anatomy (2005) episode.
  128. The use of an Édith Piaf song in the trailer makes sense if you remember that Piaf was once The Chanteuse, just as Dinah Lance once was.
  129. Chris Messina and Bojana Novakovic both starred in Devil (2010).
  130. Like Suicide Squad (2016), this film is canonical.
  131. The first film to be certified by the BBFC (United Kingdom) using their new classification platform. All cinema films will be certified in the same way by April 2020 and home media by summer of 2020.
  132. When The Birds of Prey officially form, Dinah and Helena are wearing outfits much like their comic book counterparts with Dinah in leather and fishnets and Helena wearing a purple ensemble, complete with a mask.
  133. In the Birds of Prey comics, neither Cassandra Cain or Renee Montoya have been members of the eponymous team. Harley Quinn hadn't been with the team during the film's production but was added to the team during the Rebirth era in Oct 2019.
  134. When Renee sees Cassandra at the police station, the girl clears her throat before talking. When Harley rewinds to show how Cassandra got there, we see that she'd dry-swallowed the Bertinelli diamond just minutes before.
  135. Joker is often mentioned, but never appears outside of the brief Ace Chemicals flashback (and he's seen from the back).
  136. Harley spends the entirety of the movie, struggling to get out of the Joker's shadow. Curiously, though, there's next to no hint of Jared Leto's Joker. All the animations show a far more traditional version of the Clown Prince of Crime, and Harley rattles off his comic book nicknames when she's trying to impress Cassandra Cain. Leto's version of the Joker wasn't exactly a hit in Suicide Squad, and there's been intense speculation he'll be recast. His deliberate absence, even carefully excised in flashbacks from Suicide Squad, seems to hint that will indeed be the case.
  137. Montoya gets suspended from the police force by a dirty cop named Tim Munroe. In the comics, Munroe is corrupt and ultimately killed an orphan Ivy was protecting.
  138. Along with the framing shot of Harley and Cassandra walking towards a sunset that resembles a similar shot in The Professional, the pulling of a grenade pin and calling it a "ring" is a direct homage to the ending of the same film.
  139. The goon who finds Helena alive after her family is massacred is the same guy who drove her to the house before the massacre. Helena high fives him when she gets out of the car which would indicate she knew him well & trusted him.
  140. Including a hyena in a film that has a majority-female cast is an appropriate fit when you take into account that hyenas are matriarchal (they have a female-dominant social hierarchy). Also, Bruce, Harley's pet hyena, is seemingly killed midway through the film when villains attack Harley's apartment, but in the last scene is revealed to have survived. When they are reunited, Harley comments Bruce apparently has "nine lives, like a cat" (paraphrased). Despite looking like canids, hyenas actually are feliforms instead of caniforms, which make them (very) distant relatives of cats.
  141. When Montoya glares at Harley for her garish red and black vest she says "What? I gotta protect the girls!". It turns out it's a bulletproof vest.
  142. First time we see the "Canary Cry" in the DCEU.
  143. Dinah's car, which Harley steals at the end, is a 1987 Jaguar XJ-S 5.3 V12 Convertible Hess & Eisenhardt [XJ27].
  144. Mary Elizabeth Winstead played the super-villain Royal Pain in the Disney movie Sky High (2005).

Genre

Action,Adventure,Comedy,Crime

Cast

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as Renee Montoya
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as Helena Bertinelli
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as Dinah Lance
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as Roman Sionis
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as Csandra Cain
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as Victor Zsz
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as Ellen Yee
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as Sleazy Breeder
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as Shallow Friend #1
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as Shallow Friend #2
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as Sionis' Chauffeur
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as Bitchy Teammate
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as Detective Tim Monroe
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as Carlo Rossi
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Marco Gomes

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