She added that her time working with so many female creatives on the project has already been a 'very different experience' that she's 'really happy' about. Cassandra Cain and Renee Montoya are the real surprises. Huntress has been seen on CW and worked pretty well in that capacity, so it would be interesting to see how the film deals with her pseudo-Batman persona. In her interview with The Wrap, Winstead further expressed her confidence in both Birds of Prey director Cathy Yan ( Dead Pigs) and screenwriter Christina Hodson ( Bumblebeee), as far as their abilities to handle the Huntress character and her origin story are concerned. The five-part event is the most ambitious crossover ever and, as many fans theorized, it resulted in a reboot of The CWs shared superhero universe. Black Canary has been a mainstay among the comic book version of Birds of Prey, so her inclusion is least surprising.

Reading between the lines of Winstead's comments, it sounds like the Birds of Prey movie will carry-over the broader strokes of Huntress' traditional backstory. Eventually, Helena returns to her home turf of Gotham and takes up crime-fighting as the costumed vigilante Huntress. DC is set to release a Birds of Prey Black Label comic that includes Harley Quinn with Black Canary, Huntress, and Detective Renee Montoya. But that’s all about to change when Birds of Prey hits theaters, and not just for movie-goers but for comic book lovers too. DC vigilante heroine The Huntressin WB’s short-lived Birds of Prey TV series back in 2002, alongside Dina Meyer as Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl/Oracle. Helena, having already trained for years to protect herself from her family's mafia enemies by that point, thereafter travels abroad in an effort to further study, develop and refine her fighting abilities. In fact, she’s most commonly a member of The Suicide Squad. Scott, of course, played Helena Kylea.k.a. In her typical comic book backstory, Helena Bertinelli was the daughter of one of Gotham City's most prominent mobsters, before her parents were killed when she was still just a teenager.

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