Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn Movie Has ‘Pulp Fiction’ Connection

2016’s Suicide Squad was a muddled mess, for a lot of (cough Jared Leto cough) causes, however everybody can agree there was one redeemable factor concerning the movie: Margot Robbie’s efficiency as Harley Quinn. The Oscar-nominated actress will reprise the function in director Cathy Yan’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). That’s fairly the tongue-twister, which explains why the spin-off had an easier working title, one with a connection to a different filmmaker Robbie has labored with: Quentin Tarantino.

“In Pulp Fiction, when Uma [Thurman] and John Travolta are having their $5 milkshake, she’s explaining the pilot that she – which I think, in real life, Uma had done. I think that dialogue was based on the fact that she’d done a pilot like that. And then he turned it into dialogue, and then she talks about Fox Force Five. And it’s like a whole scene,” the I, Tonya actress informed MTV News. “But in our movie, there’s five prominent women. And like, we always throw a reference to Tarantino moments that we pray to inject into the film. So, it felt fitting.”

Robbie even requested permission from Tarantino to make use of Fox Force Five because the working title, and “he thought it was really funny,” she added. It was both that, or Zed’s Dead, Baby, Zed’s Dead. As for why Birds of Prey (out February 2020) has such a fancy title, Robbie defined that as a result of “it’s not a really severe film… we thought the title ought to mirror that. Birds of Prey makes it sound actually severe and that’s like Harley including her, don’t fear, I’m on this, too.”