Yan joins Patty Jenkins and Ava DuVernay as one of the DCEU's leading women directors, and while there's some confusion over what her film will end up portraying, there's no escaping the film's title. Birds of Prey - in the comics at least - never revolved around Harley Quinn, but instead a group of DC superheroines.
Created by Chuck Dixon and Jordan B. Gorfinkel, Birds of Prey was galvanised by writer Gail Simone in the early 2000s, quickly becoming a fan-favourite series and a constant presence for the publisher through to their divisive 2011 reboot. It's highly rated, and with news of the team heading to the big screen, fans have already been discussing who should play who, who should adapt what, and how it should all come together.
Whether it be recasting old favourites or bringing new characters to cinema for the first time, Birds of Prey could end up being one of the most important DC films yet. Here's hoping it nails everything in equal respects.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
