Margot Robbie on Why Cathy Yan Was Her Choice to Direct the Harley Quinn ‘Girl Gang Film’

Cathy Yan’s recent recruitment to the DC Universe was a welcome surprise: Deadline reported April 17 that she will direct an upcoming Warner Bros.

and DC Entertainment collaboration starring Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and a band of fellow female supervillains.

The untitled project by screenwriter Christina Hodson (“Bumbleblee”) — likely adapted from the “Birds of Prey” comics — will be just the second feature from Yan, whose “Dead Pigs” won the World Cinema Dramatic Award For Ensemble Acting at January’s Sundance Film Festival.With this assignment, Yan becomes the first Asian woman to oversee a superhero epic, and only the third woman ever to direct for DC.

During the junket for Robbie’s May 11 release “Terminal,” IndieWire asked the actress — who will also produce Yan’s tentpole — why she was adamant that studio hire a female director.“Well, it’s a female girl gang film,” Robbie chuckled.

“Historically, female filmmakers aren’t given the same opportunities,

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