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10. Birds Of Prey Isn't A "Prequel" To The Suicide Squad

Margot Robbie will return as Harley Quinn in The Suicide Squad so you have to believe that there's a mid-credits scene or something which sets the stage for that movie, right? Unfortunately, Warner Bros.' decision to move away from a shared universe points to there being no sort of direct references to what comes next for the character when she rejoins Task Force X in 2021.

"This was designed to be its own thing, standalone, singular, as is James's Suicide Squad," producer Sue Kroll told ComicBook.com. "But because the world is the world, there are these very interesting organic connections, I think, that end up evolving, but there wasn't any kind of consultation among the filmmakers on the movies. And they, of course, started much later, as we were getting close to wrap, and so things were done pretty much independently."

That's definitely doesn't sound like a great way to build one, cohesive story and even reshoots didn't add any connective tissue. Asked about those, director Cathy Yan explained that it was mostly action scenes which were added as, "That was always there but we kind of boosted it a little bit."

We could be surprised but it's looking doubtful and this feels like a major, missed opportunity. Yes, Warner Bros. struggled to make the DCEU a thing but it's going to be hard getting invested in these characters if nothing we've seen them do before really matters for whatever comes next.