THE SUICIDE SQUAD Star Margot Robbie Rumored To Return As Harley Quinn In The DCU

@AmazingFILMporg - I know some are going to be mad about what I am going to say: Gunn sometimes feels like too much of a comic fan. Now, I am one too, but there is a lot of stuff our crowd takes for granted that the general audience doesn't.

The Suicide Squad is a great example. As a comic book fan, I got it immediately: it's a new creative team on a run. When Grant Morrison took over X-Men, it became New X-Men and had a totally new look and aesthetic, but was still technically following X-Men vol. 2 in continuity.

But to the general public, it was like, "Is this a sequel? Reboot? It has the same cast but looks and feels completely different in the trailers. The name is basically the same too. What is it?"

The same is happening here. Gunn is doing the typical DC reboot where some stuff happened, some stuff didn't, and you can work out which is which after you switch over. And, as a long time DC comic fan, I often found this a huge mess, especially during the New 52 and Rebirth with "everything is completely different except all of Batman still happened but happened in a five year period" and then when there were two Supermen who got combined into one history and I couldn't figure out if he had or hadn't dated Wonder Woman anymore aggghhh.

Just cut the limb, James. If this is a fresh start, this is a fresh start. Don't complicate this in a way that seems obvious to savvy comic book fans but will turn off casuals.

@Taonrey - It's embarrassing too because manga has broken a lot of conventional wisdom about western comics. Like Marvel/DC, manga can go on for dozens and dozens and dozens of volumes, the latest serialized chapter being chapter 1186 or something, but the stories are easy to jump on and you know what Volume 1 is that you can start as a new fan. There's only one Volume 1.

Comic book companies have erroneously believed that taking everything to a screeching halt and restarting at Issue 1 after 17 issues "brings in new readers" when it also turns off long existing ones. I know this is a combination of many many things, but it drives me crazy when the 200th Amazing Spider-Man #1 doesn't do as well as a random high hundred number issue from a couple of decades ago. I'm not even talking continuity here, just the used cars salesman tactic of putting a new number on an old product.

@WhatIfRickJames - eisfs?

@LongMayHeReign -

"keeping his friends and business partners employed"

Yep, Margot Robbie is being hired because she is Gunn's friend, not because she is an Oscar-nominated star and producer who just gave WB a billion-dollar box office phenomenon.

@Ginley - She's also the star of a lot of flops. A lot lot. Barbie (it's the name Barbie that's selling tickets, not Robbie's) is the exception, not the rule. Even the 2 DCEU movies where she was the main star flopped.

@LongMayHeReign - yeah dude. If you make magic with someone, why wouldn’t you continue to make magic with them if you had the opportunity?

@Highflyer - and this is why I started poking fun at Gunn 😅