Talk about a close call – According to both Margot Robbie and Collin Farrell, had it not been for the last-minute intervention of The Batman director Matt Reeves, the disastrous Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) would have featured not Black Mask, but The Penguin as its central antagonist.

Colin Farrell's Penguin nearly debuted in Margot Robbie's "Birds of Prey," but Matt Reeves, director of "The Batman," intervened as he had plans for the character. Robbie revealed that the original script featured Penguin as the main villain,