Gotham City Sirens Wants Megan Fox as Poison Ivy?

Warner Bros. is continuing to show their willingness to be flexible when it comes to the DC Extended Universe. Not only are they willing to bump movies from the schedule or move them back, but they continue to add movies based on potential public interest. One such movie,Gotham City Sirens, will serve as the Harley Quinn spinoff movie that has been talked about for several months. And it looks like Poison Ivy will be part of the female villain ensemble. So who is going to play her? Turns out, maybe Megan Fox.

Bleeding Coolhas come across some circumstantial evidence that lends some credibility to the idea thatMegan Foxmay be circling the role of Poison Ivy. Back in 2014, she expressed interest in playing either Poison Ivy or Red Sonja and she is a known comic book fan. Aside from that older evidence, Bleeding Cool is reporting that she has been ordering some DC Comics recently that seem very timely. Here is what they had to say.

“Fox has been ordering comic books online, Very specific ones. I have been shown hard evidence that she has ordered these specific titles, sent to her Warner Studios address. They are Harley Quinn #14, #17 and #38. The first two feature early appearances of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy together and the latter regarding her relationship with the Gotham City police.”

The report makes it clear that this is mostly a speculative thing, but given the fact that the announcement for theGotham City Sirensmovie was just made and the interestMegan Foxhas in these particular books at this particular moment lends some credibility to the speculation. DirectorDavid Ayerrecently hinted on social media that the movie will include Harley Quinn, who will once again be played byMargot Robbie, as well asPoison Ivy and Catwoman. So the role will need to be filled andMegan Foxis an understandable prospect for the role, at least from a studio perspective, since she has worked on plenty of big movies like this in the past.

Gotham City Sirenswas a recent DC Comics title that focused on the trio of Harley Quinn, Catwoman and Poison Ivy working as a team to do their own bidding. It sounds like this new movie will be taking its cues from that book. As a movie, the project was basically willed into existence byMargot Robbie. After she landed the role of Harley Quinn inSuicide Squad, the actress reportedly did a deep dive into the comics to research her character, and during that process, she became interested in many of the otherDC female characters. She brought on an unidentified writer herself to develop the project, before taking the project to Warner Bros. The studio then quickly picked up the project and it was just announced thatDavid Ayerwould be directing and that it would officially be titledGotham City Sirens, with the project previously rumored to be titledBirds of Prey.

Megan Foxwill probably be a divisive pick among fans, since she hasn’t exactly been in the most well-regarded comic book related movies during her career. She starred in both of the recentMichael BayproducedTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmovies and in the disastrousJonah Hex. So her track record with comic book movies is a bit checkered. This is still rumor at this point, but don’t necessarily be shocked if we hear something more official regardingMegan Foxand the role of Poison Ivy in the near future, sinceGotham City Sirensis reportedly on the fast track.