Warner Bros. reportedly made a conscious effort to hire a female director for this Harley Quinn project.
She made her feature film debut with this year’sDead Pigs, which screened at Sundance and won the U.S.
Dramatic Special Jury Award for Ensemble Acting at the 2018 festival.

Credit: Warner Bros. Pictures
There area lot of Harley Quinn-centric films in development, as Robbie herself has said.
This one is being written by Christina Hodson, the screenwriter on the BumbleeTransformersspin-off and DC’sBatgirl.
(We said there was a lot going on!)
News of Yan’s involvement on the project was first reported byDeadline.