I sure hope you like Harley Quinn, because she's going to beating us over the proverbial head with her bat in the coming years with an animated series on DC Universe, a new film appearance in BIRDS OF PREY next year and then another film appearance in James Gunn's THE SUICIDE SQUAD in 2021. Beyond that, Harley is being unleashed in a mostly mature-rated way, skipping past that PG-13 audience and hoping right into the R-rated swear mouth and blood soaked audience that's befitting of a sexy yet crazed maniac with a bat, guns and all manner of pets that shouldn't be pets. Her latest onscreen jaunt comes in the form of the DC Universe animated series, kicking off this month, and a new trailer has been released that emphatically lays out that it's not a show meant to empower young women with strong values. This is Harley unleashed and, for the rest of us, looks to be a whole lotta fun.
It's unclear whether or not BIRDS OF PREY will be R-rated and there's no official word on where THE SUICIDE SQUAD will fall there, but it most certainly appears that it's going that route, especially with JOKER about to cross the $1 billion mark at the box office. That's a pretty good incentive to include some harsh language and bloody head shots in your DC comic property, I'd say. The animated series kicks off this month and features the voice talents of Kaley Cuoco as Harley, Alan Tudyk as The Joker, Lake Bell as Poison Ivy, Diedrich Bader as Batman, Christopher Meloni as Commissioner Gordon and J.B. Smoove as Frank The Plant.
Harley Quinn is set to premiere on November 29th on DC Universe with a 13-episode first season.