'Suicide Squad' is an upcoming superhero film by David Ayer. The director revealed that Harley Quinn was an important character in the new film's plot. Margot Robbie, the actress who plays Harley, posed with her fellow cast mates for a newly released promotional photograph.
According to Moviepilot, Ayer revealed that Margot Robbie's character Harley Quinn will be a lynch pin for his new anti-hero film's storyline. He said, "It's about her breaking free of The Joker and becoming this fully actualised, independent person. That really is a metaphor for everyone's journey here."
Robbie herself admitted that Harley's crazy violent nature was one of her appeals. According to the Independent, she gushed over her character saying, "Harley is creepy, violent, crazy - all of the things that I aspire to be... It's the fun of living vicariously through someone who is doing things that I would never do in real life." It is not to say that the torment of loving the villainous Joker took a toll on her mental health as well.
Harley Quinn is best known as Joker's hilarious sidekick as well as eventual love interest. She was first introduced in the graphic novel 'The Batman Adventures: Mad Love', which told Harley's origin story beginning with being an Arkham Asylum psychiatrist who volunteered to treat Joker's case to falling in love with him.
Meanwhile, Robbie joined the rest of the 'Suicide Squad' cast for a new promotional photograph. According to The Daily Mail, it featured the Australian actress posing as Harley together with fellow cast mates Will Smith as Deadshot, Jai Courtney's Captain Boomerang, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje's Killer Croc, Karen Fukuhara's Katana and Joel Kinnaman's Rick Flagg. Cara Delevigne's The Enchantress and Jared Leto's Joker were not in the photograph.
'Suicide Squad' is an upcoming action film based on the DC Comics anti-hero team of the same name. It is directed and written for the big screen by David Ayer. It is scheduled to premiere in theaters on August 5, 2016 and is currently in post-production.
