With the guy-heavy super-teams the Avengers and the Justice League disbanded (for now), 2020 is the year where female heroes take over the multiplex in a big way… both in front of and behind the camera.<\/p>\n
In a long-overdue first, all four major comic-book movies set to be released this year are directed by women and star some of Hollywood\u2019s leading actresses, including Scarlett Johansson, Gal Gadot and Angelina Jolie.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s Margot Robbie who gets to take the first swing \u2014 literally \u2014 with Cathy Yan\u2019s Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)<\/em>. Due in cinemas on 7 February, the sort-of Suicide Squad <\/em>sequel ditches Harley Quinn\u2019s lame male colleagues like Deadshot (Will Smith), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and, especially, the Joker (the Jared Leto version, not<\/em> Joaquin Phoenix) in favour of female ruckus-raisers with bad-ass names like Black Canary (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez).<\/p>\n Read more: <\/strong>How<\/strong> Trainspotting<\/strong><\/em> influenced <\/strong>Birds of Prey<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n With less than a month to go until the film arrives in cinemas, a new trailer hit the web today showing off the united Birds of Prey <\/em>crew and the team of bad dudes they\u2019re going to be taking down. (Watch the trailer above.)<\/p>\n The Harley-narrated teaser opens with her… um, explosive <\/em>break-up with \u201cMr. J,\u201d which involves her steering a truck straight into an Ace Chemical plant \u2014 the place responsible for his extreme makeover \u2014 blasting it to smithereens.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no on-screen proof of death, but that hasn\u2019t stopped Twitter from effectively burying Leto\u2019s Joker without any \u201cRIP\u201d messages.<\/p>\n![\"Margot](\"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/New-Birds-of-Prey-trailer-appears-to-kill-off-Jared.jpeg\")