Suicide Squad movie: Harley Quinn and Deadshot will be allies, confirm Will Smith and Margot Robbie

Will Smith and Margot Robbie are all set to start work on the upcoming supervillain team-up flick - Suicide Squad. The DC Comics adaptation, slated for release in 2016, will be part of the DC Cinematic Universe and fans are quite excited about watching the menacing villains together on the big screen.

Smith plays Deadshot in the film while Robbie takes on the role of Harley Quinn and during a promotional event for their latest film Focus, the two stars spoke about their respective roles in Suicide Squad. (via Flicks and the City)

"I'm really looking forward to it," said Robbie before Smith added, "I'm looking forward to it too, but I don't know what it's going to be character-wise." Margot then said, "We don't know what our characters' relationship is really gonna be [because] it's ever-changing."

Smith continued, praising Suicide Squad director/writer David Ayer: "It's really cool, the way that David Ayer works," said the actor. "It's all images, all ideas, and he holds the screenplay [pretty close] and he just keeps sending you things about your character. He just wants you to be prepared for anything."

After revealing that Harley Quinn and Deadshot will be allies in the movie, both actors admitted that they don't know much about Suicide Squad, yet.

"We're not being secretive, we just actually don't know," said Robbie, as Smith added that "[Ayer] only sends your character's stuff so you don't know what's going on with the other characters; I think he wants it to come alive on set."

Smith and Robbie also revealed that they will start filming for the movie around mid-April. Suicide Squad will release on 5 August, 2016.