Official: Gotham City Sirens directed by David Ayer - Part 1

[Jekecy]

I have to reiterate how much I'd be interested to see Sofia Coppola direct this film. She probably wouldn't want to do a comic book movie, but I would love to see her take on this world and these characters.

Up to WB to make the first move:

Coppola was asked whether she would direct a super-hero movie or another type of big-budget Hollywood blockbuster, and she didn’t rule it out. “I love making small low-budget films where I am really allowed to do it the way I want, and I think when you have those huge franchises there are a lot of cooks in the kitchen and meetings in conference rooms. But I’d never say never.”

With the success Patty's had, maybe she'll be even more open to it.

 

[misslane38]

Up to WB to make the first move:

With the success Patty's had, maybe she'll be even more open to it.

Thanks for sharing that quote. I hope Patty's success might push Coppola closer to taking on a project like GCS. I just think her body of work really speaks to her ability to handle complex female characters and female friendships. She has a fantastic flair for visuals, too. Ayer could possibly pull off a good film, but someone like Coppola would make it special.

 

[pixen]

I have to reiterate how much I'd be interested to see Sofia Coppola direct this film. She probably wouldn't want to do a comic book movie, but I would love to see her take on this world and these characters.

She would never do it but man, that'd be such a stunning film.

 

[The_Manhunter]

I hope Ayer doesn't direct this. Hoping this Scarface movie allows WB to pick someone else

I think Ayer deserves another chance. SS was butchered in post by WB panicking IMO

 

[pixen]

And shooting on a first draft of a script... Everything about the film was rushed and that's why it fell apart.

 

[ManWithNoName18]

Looks like Ayer dropped out of the Scarface remake

 

[Osiris-Rex]

What does Universal want for Scarface if Ayer's take was too dark? An action comedy? A musical? Considering what Universal did with The Mummy, David Ayer is probably better off.
Just drop it, Universal. How many remakes of remakes are you going to make and remake?

 

[Greens]

I'd watch the **** out of a Scarface musical.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

I'd watch the **** out of a Scarface musical.

Say hello to my leetle friend.
Best wishes to you he will send.

 

[Pennywise]

I'd watch the **** out of a Scarface musical.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Yo! If Shazam can have its own forum section why not this?

 

[Greens]

This thread is not going to be able to contain the female "empowerment" that's about to happen.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Yo! If Shazam can have its own forum section why not this?

Batgirl and Nightwing don't have one either.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

 

[katara]

I bet she'll "evolve" into an even uglier outfit. lmao

 

[katara]

SS Harley (or any current harley incarnation) has no depth whatsoever in my opinion. DC has turned her into a truly superficial character. It bums me tf out.

 

[Silvermoth]

Batgirl and Nightwing don't have one either.

I know, it's really puffing my jiggles. I wish they would make one

 

[DOBSON10]

I don't have a problem with Ayer as a Director for the most part, just don't let him design the look of the characters and make him tone down the Urban slang. I'm not interested in seeing Catwoman with "Meow" tatted on her foreheard or Poison Ivy covered in vine tattoo's and I don't want to hear these characters saying "That's Gangsta" all the time like in Suicide Squad.

Give Harley back her Red and Black look (not asking for the full Jester costume but I'm not a fan of the blue and pink), make Catwoman and Poison Ivy look and talk like the characters are supposed to look and talk and everything else should be OK. And no End of the World threat for this movie either.

That said, I'm not sure this movie is a particularly good idea. Just feels like they're trying to turn these characters into hero's or anti-heros because they can't use them all as villains for Batman movies, pitting them against another villain who's "worse"... Birds of Prey with them as the antagonist makes more sense even if it would be hard to pull off introducing all those characters at once. I know there is precedence for the group, but I'm more interested in these characters when they're played as straight villains (Well, Catwoman straddled a grey area, which is traditional for her character but not so much with Harley/Ivy, though it has happened with them as well).

 

[Osiris-Rex]

I get the idea Margot Robbie read a lot of comic books to prepare for her role in Suicide Squad and Gotham City Sirens were some of the comic books she read. It was said she fell in love with the female characters and that probably included Catwoman and Poison Ivy. So that is why Robbie pitched the idea of a Gotham City Sirens movie to Warner Bros. And I guess Robbie enjoyed working with Ayer, so most likely Robbie pitched the idea of letting Ayer direct GCS. I doubt Batgirl or any of the other BoP characters will be in the movie because they weren't in the GCS comic books. More likely it will be Black Mask, who was already mentioned, and maybe Riddler and/or Joker, who were also important characters in the GCS comic books. Add to the fact that Geneva Dworet-Robertson is writing the movie and I get the idea this will be a Margot Robbie movie, not a David Ayer movie, that Robbie is calling the shots, not Ayer.

 

[pixen]

Looks like David Ayer might not be helming this after all. Hope it doesn't keep this movie from being made though.

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Looks like David Ayer might not be helming this after all. Hope it doesn't keep this movie from being made though.

Ayer's rep flatly denied that he's off the project, saying it's still in development and that the script is not yet complete

Speaking to Den of Geek, the filmmaker said: "It's a story about three fantastic women who're trying to find their way in the world, and realise that they have more power together than they do individually.
"I have daughters and I want to create something that might be able to help them get along in the world a little bit."


http://www.cosmicbooknews.com/gotham-city-sirens-said-be-still-happening

 

[Iceman]

I think Ayer deserves another chance. SS was butchered in post by WB panicking IMO

Isn't that a reason why he wouldn't want to do it?

 

[Osiris-Rex]

Isn't that a reason why he wouldn't want to do it?

Hard to say. At the time movies were ran differently at Warner Bros. The superhero movies were just part of the mix that included the Harry Potter movies and the Hobbit movies. Now people like Silverman have been
let go and a whole new division have been created to specifically make comic books movies, DC Films, with Geoff Johns and Jon Berg in charge. So with a different climate as WB, Ayers may be more enthusiastic about
working with WB again. I think Wonder Woman might be part of the new philosophy, because Patty Jenkins had a free hand with Wonder Woman and even when the studio did try to meddle, such as wanting to cut the
No-Man's Land scene, she got her way.

 

[Iceman]

Hard to say. At the time movies were ran differently at Warner Bros. The superhero movies were just part of the mix that included the Harry Potter movies and the Hobbit movies. Now people like Silverman have been
let go and a whole new division have been created to specifically make comic books movies, DC Films, with Geoff Johns and Jon Berg in charge. So with a different climate as WB, Ayers may be more enthusiastic about
working with WB again. I think Wonder Woman might be part of the new philosophy, because Patty Jenkins had a free hand with Wonder Woman and even when the studio did try to meddle, such as wanting to cut the
No-Man's Land scene, she got her way.

I don't mind him coming back as long as whatever contributed to SS's issues can be avoided for all future films.

 

[DieSmiling]

I'm not really sure losing Ayer would be that huge of a loss TBH. I don't know if these types of movies are really in his wheelhouse.

Well, comments from Ayer during a Comic-Con panel for his Netflix movie Bright may shed some light on that. "I don't think people realize the situation filmmakers face," he said. "[Bright] isn't like, some ******** standard issue studio PG-13 movie. I was able to do some real **** here." Ayer has only directed one PG-13 movie in his career and that's the critically panned Suicide Squad from last year.

Doesn't sound like he's that into big budget studio films and I'm sure WB wasn't thrilled with how SS worked out, either.