Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first full trailer for Cathy Yan's Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), based loosely on the DC Comics superteam. Since the events of Suicide Squad, Harley Quinn has left the Joker and Batman has disappeared, leaving Gotham City unprotected from crime. When a young girl named Cassandra Cain comes across a diamond belonging to crime lord who goes by the name of Black Mask, Harley joins forces with Black Canary, Huntress and Renee Montoya to protect her.
The two-minute trailer opens with Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) sharing a drink with Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) in a club. "Do you know what a harlequin is?" asks Harley in an unusually somber tone. "A harlequin's role is to serve. It's nothin' without a master. No one give two shits who we are beyond that."
As the haunting song "Hymne à l'amour" (Hymn to Love) by Edith Piaf begins to play, we see Harley tearfully cutting her long pigtails shorter. "The Joker and I broke up," she remarks in a voiceover. I wanted a fresh start. But it turns out I wasn't the only dame in Gotham looking for emancipation."
We see Black Canary singing at Sionis' nightclub as Dinah Lance, followed by Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez) walking out of police headquarters with her things in a cardboard box as her fellow officers applaud. Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is shown aiming a crossbow at Harley in an alley before lowering the weapon and lowering the lid of her motorcycle helmet.
Next, we see Black Mask/Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor) exclaim "Spectacular news!" as he walks into a room (without his mask) to find three of the Birds of Prey hanging upside down by their bound feet and wearing gags.
We glimpse Harley being extremely happy about getting a pet hyena, sharing a stick of licorice with the animal.
"Ms. Quinn," Roman says to his henchman Victor Zsasz (Chris Messina), "she belongs to me."
As Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco) hides behind a wet Harley, a few of Black Mask's goons start shooting at them, forcing the two to run for safety. This is followed by Huntress confronting some mob members at a restaurant, kicking the table that results in gunfire.
After we glimpse Sionis and a dozen of his men holding a bound Harley at gunpoint, we see him alone in a separate scene, apparently losing his mental grip. "Here's the deal, Quinn," he says to her. "You need me!"
"He's after all of us now," Harley tells the Birds as we see her and the team together, presumably at some abandoned carnival fun house. "None of us are walkin' outta here, unless we work together."
We see fleeting glimpses Harley dressed as Marilyn Monroe in her performance of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, followed by Harley riding on the rear bumper of a car while wearing roller skates.
"With you?" asks Montoya, in response to Harley's proposal to team up. "You gotta be kidding me," remarks Huntress in a voiceover.
In a different scene, Harley jumps up and smashes the knees of a mob guy who has his feet propped up on a table.
As the team gets ready to fight, Harley seems very excited, telling the others, "Isn't this fun? It's just like a sleepover. We should order pizza. Make Cosmos." In response, Black Canary tells her to focus.
In another scene, Harley is wearing a large purple hat and coat, grinning in a very Joker-like fashion as she shoots a police officer with a beanbag gun.
"I'm the one they should be scared of!" Harley remarks as we see her escaping from jail as emergency water sprinklers pour down from the ceiling, followed by a montage of fleeting Harley moments. "Not you! Not Mister J! Because I'm Harley freakin' Quinn!"
"Whoo!" exclaims Sionis as we see Dinah singing in the background. "Who's having a good time?"
"Get ready, ladies..." says Harley as we see her, Black Canary and Huntress in action, followed by Harley in front of an explosion of fireworks as the film's cast list surrounds her.
In the trailer's final scene, we find Harley and Cassandra in a car, with Harley driving. "Oh, you're that psycho chick," quips Cassandra.
"You never call a woman a chick," replies Harley. "I'll accept broad, lady, woman, and on occasion, bitch."
"Bitch? What are you talking about?"
"Toss that for me, will ya?" asks Harley as she hands Cassandra a stick of dynamite to toss out the passenger window at a nearby car. The dynamite explodes as Harley laughs.
If you'd like to check out the trailer, you can view it below thanks to the official Warner Bros. Pictures account on YouTube...
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is expected to arrive in theaters on February 7, 2020.