The character’s depiction in Suicide Squad left a bad taste – but with her own film on the way, DC has the perfect chance to redress the balance
The art of franchise course correction is an onerous one. Star Wars creator George Lucas did his best to make amends for the horrors of Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace by virtually eliminating the bumbling Gungan from Attack of the Clones – bar a brief appearance in which the hapless stalk-eyed goon rubber-stamps the rise of the evil Empire. This might have worked if Lucas hadn’t introduced whining teenager Anakin Skywalker in the same movie, as well as ruining Yoda by recreating him in CGI.
Warner Bros has already tried something similar with its current DC extended universe of comic-book movies. Faced with the backlash against a knuckle-headed, furrow-browed caped crusader in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the studio decided to reimagine the character as a wisecracking, Marvel-style good guy in sequel Justice League. Despite the best efforts of Ben Affleck and Joss Whedon, it didn’t really work out. But it doesn’t seem to have stopped the studio trying a similar approach with its forthcoming Margot Robbie-led Harley Quinn film.
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