Mark Hughes , Contributor
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Rumors and speculation continue to spread this week about the future of Warner Bros.' DC Comics adaptations. I addressed the rumors yesterday in an article here at Forbes, and today I've got additional information to share that debunks a persistent rumor making the rounds on many sites. When word of a Harley-Joker
Mad Love type movie project surfaced, some outlets claimed it was possibly taking the place of David Ayer's
Gotham City Sirens project on the DCEU slate. Today, several outlets are running stories asserting
Gotham City Sirens is cancelled and that
Mad Love (as I'm going to refer to the Harley-Joker project for now) is indeed the "replacement" project.
Well, you can safely ignore those stories, because I've confirmed
Gotham City Sirens is still in development. Here is what I was told by a Warner insider:
Harley, Catwoman and Poison Ivy are super important to us-- And a super cool team, too!
The all-female superhero/anti-hero
Gotham City SirensR team-up project is very different in terms of concept and the role it plays in the larger DCEU, not to mention nuances of target demographics and character development, compared to
Mad Love. So there has been no shift of the concept or project to replace it with a criminal love story featuring Harley Quinn and the Joker.