Harley Quinn meets Black Mask and Victor four different Harley Quinn films at one point.
The studio eventually decided to move forward with Birds of Prey first, though Robbie will also reprise her role as Harley for James Gunn's quasi-sequel said to generally ignore Suicide Squad, save for Robbie's turn as Harley.
Story-wise, Birds of Prey follows Harley as she tries to "emancipate" herself from Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and Gotham cop Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) to protect a young girl named Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) after the crime lord Black Mask (Ewan McGregor) orders a hit on her. You can check out a new image from the movie below, courtesy of Fandango.
Black Mask aka. Roman Sionis is a sadistic crime lord who enjoys torturing others and earned his nickname thanks to his obsessions with wearing (what else) masks. He's accompanied here by Chris Messina (both featured on Fox's Gotham TV series, though the latter also briefly showed up in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins (where he was played by Tim Booth).
Neither Messina nor McGregor are usually type-cast as villains and the pair appear to be having a blast playing against type in leave his mark on Black Mask and, hopefully, deliver one of the more memorable - if not the most memorable - bad guys in a DC Extended Universe film yet with his performance in Birds of Prey.
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