David Ayer, Margot Robbie Reteam for All-Female DC Villains Movie 'Gotham City Sirens'

David Ayer is back in the business of DC comic villains.

The filmmaker, who directed Warner Bros.’ all-bad guy comic book movie Suicide Squad, is reuniting with that film’s star, Margot Robbie, for Gotham City Sirens, a feature project that will showcase the top female villains from the DC stable, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Ayer will direct and produce the project with Robbie reprising her role as Harley Quinn, the part-time girlfriend of the Joker who is currently DC's most popular female character. Robbie also is executive producing.

Sirens was a recent comic series from DC that focused on the popular villainesses from Batman’s rogue gallery. Among them were Quinn; Catwoman, Batman’s sometime love interest; and Poison Ivy, who uses plants and their toxins to get what she wants.

Geneva Robertson-Dworet, a top female writer in the action sphere who also has penned scripts for the Tomb Raider remake and Warners' own Sherlock Holmes 3, is writing the screenplay.

The heads of DC’s film arm, Geoff Johns and Jon Berg, also will be involved in a producorial role.

Suicide Squad was a tough production and the movie underwent some reshoots, but it turned out fine for all parties involved as it grossed over $745.6 million globally. It is now the 13th highest-grossing superhero release of all time domestically and has surpassed the international box office of Deadpool, a movie to which it was often compared in terms of tone.

The studio is still developing a Suicide Squad sequel as well as looking into a spinoff featuring Deadshot, the assassin character played by Will Smith. But this project was the furthest along, and with Robbie’s Quinn having received near universal praise for Squad, this was the most natural project for Ayer with which to make his Warners return. The filmmaker is currently nearing the end of principal photography for Bright, a fantasy thriller for Netflix that stars Will Smith and Joel Edgerton.

Warner Bros. doesn’t have a release date for Sirens, but the project is now on the fast track.

Ayer is repped by CAA and Sloane Offer.

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Back in September, it was reported that Margot Robbie would be producing her own Harley Quinn spin-off movie. Variety then reported that director David Ayer will be at the helm and that it will be called Gotham City Sirens – taking its name from a comic series that featured Quinn teaming with fellow female Batman villains Poison Ivy and Catwoman.

Heady has sparked rumours that she could be in the run for Gotham City Sirens. A fan tweeted “why aren’t you playing catwoman yet???” to which she replied “Why the fuck am I not.”

Is David Ayer Teasing Harley Quinn's 'Gotham City Sirens' Bad Guy?



Has David Ayer just revealed the villain of Gotham City Sirens?

The Suicide Squad director, who's developing the Harley Quinn spin-off with screenwriter Geneva Robertson-Dworet and executive producer/star Margot Robbie, shared an image of the comic book villain Black Mask on Twitter Monday afternoon, sparking speculation that the bad guy will be the main threat of the movie.

If that's the case, it's a good choice. The character, who debuted in 1985's Batman No. 386, is a crime boss who's fascinated with collecting masks — including Batman's cowl, if he could get his hands on it. In recent years, Black Mask has moved towards being a foil for Catwoman — at one point, she and Black Mask were warring crime bosses fighting over Gotham — and the classic femme fatale has already been named as one of Harley Quinn's two partners-in-crime in Sirens, alongside Poison Ivy.

This wouldn't be the first time that Ayer has teased details of his DC movies via Twitter; in 2015, the social media platform was where fans got their first chance to see Jared Leto's Joker. As Suicide Squad headed towards release, the director continued to use Twitter to promote the project, tagging messages with the hashtag #Skwad. Should we be expecting #Sirenz to become a thing before too long?