The Suicide Squad – a group of mostly obscure supervillains from the DC Universe who go on deadly missions on behalf of the government in exchange for a pardon – have already graced the big screen once. In 2016, Will Smith and Margot Robbie led the team in director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Reviews weren’t great, to say the least, but the movie did well enough that Warner Bros. is making a second movie due out next year, this one titled The Suicide Squad. DC’s mid-august FanDome event revealed a bunch of new details about the film – we finally got to see which characters are featured, and were treated to an extended behind-the-scenes featurette – so here’s everything you need to know about next summer’s big movie.
Guardians of the Galaxy helmer James Gunn Is the Director
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James Gunn, best known for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s two Guardians of the Galaxy films, will be writing and directing The Suicide Squad. Gunn was hired to write the movie in October of 2018, a few months after Disney fired him from Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 due to old, inappropriate joke tweets. Perhaps because the tweets were brought up as part of a targeted campaign by alt-right agitators, Disney eventually reversed its decision, and re-hired Gunn. However, vol. 3 would have to wait because the director was already committed to The Suicide Squad. Gunn is the first person to make both an MCU movie and a modern DC movie. At DC FanDome, Gunn said the movie – which finished shooting in February – was “by far the biggest movie I’ve ever made,” and promised it had as many explosions and crashes as any other film ever made.
It’s not a sequel to the 2016 movie (not exactly)
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The Suicide Squad is not a sequel to the 2016 movie, as producer Peter Safran told ComicBook.com in April. But, it’s not completely not a sequel, either, as there will be some returning actors and characters from the Ayer movie. This is fitting with DC’s more laissez-faire approach to continuity ever since Justice League underwhelmed critically and at the box office. Recent films like Aquaman and Shazam! have nominally existed in the DCEU but they largely exist on their own. Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey was technically a sequel to the first Suicide Squad, but aside from Margot Robbie’s titular character and one tossed-off line referencing the events of the film, it didn’t really acknowledge the 2016 movie at all. Expect The Suicide Squad to take what worked from the first movie and leave behind anything that didn’t. Continuity doesn’t matter nearly as much as a fun movie does.
A handful of actors from the first movie will reprise their roles
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Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn will return for the third time in The Suicide Squad. She’ll be joined by three of her 2016 co-stars: Viola Davis will reprise her role as agent Amanda Waller, the brains behind the Squad’s mission; Joel Kinnaman will play Rick Flag, the team’s handler; and Jai Courtney will return as the Aussie villain Captain Boomerang.
Will Smith will not be reprising his role as Deadshot, Jared Leto’s Joker is apparently too twisted for a reprise appearance, and nobody from the Birds of Prey cast, aside from Robbie, is confirmed to return, either.
There are a ton of DC characters making their first appearance, and most are obscure
Although most of the cast had been revealed earlier, it wasn’t until DC’s FanDome event on August 22 that the full list of new characters was revealed — and most of them are very obscure for the casual DC viewer.
Idris Elba is playing Bloodsport, a mercenary with high-tech weaponry who is traditionally a Superman villain in the comics. Pete Davidson plays Blackguard, a villain to the time-traveling hero Booster Gold who wears high-tech armor. Doctor Who’s Peter Capaldi is playing the telepathic Flash villain The Thinker.
John Cena plays Peacemaker, who he described during FanDome as a “douchey Captain America.” Nathan Fillion plays T.D.K. — and it’s rumored that “T.D.K.” is an acronym for “The Detachable Kid,” a new name for one of DC’s most infamous characters, a wannabe Legion of Super-Heroes member called Arm-Fall-Off Boy.
David Dastmalchian plays Polka-Dot Man, a corny Batman villain (and a personal favorite of Gunn’s); Daniela Melchior plays Ratcatcher 2, another Batman villain who can control vermin; and Mayling Ng plays Mongal, an alien conquerer. Javelin, an Olympic athlete-turned-Green Lantern villain, will be played by Flula Borg, while Steve Agee will voice King Shark, a giant walking shark. (Though given he is not credited on the character poster, there is speculation that he another person – cough, Taika Waititi, cough – may be providing the character’s voice.)
And, because this is a James Gunn movie, two of his frequent collaborators appear too: Michael Rooker plays Savant, a genius blackmailer, while Gunn’s brother Sean Gunn, who did on-set stop-motion work as Rocket Raccoon in Guardians, will again get into the motion-capture suit to play a rodent, this time a character named Weasel.
In addition, Storm Reid plays Bloodsport’s daughter Tyla, Juan Diego Botto is General Luna, Joaquín Cosío is Major General Suarez, and Jennifer Holland is Emilia Harcourt.
Tinashe Kajese, Julio Ruiz, and Taika Waititi will also appear in the film in undisclosed roles. (Cough, King Shark, cough.)
Don’t know who most of these characters are? That’s OK! It’s kind of the point. Suicide Squad, especially in Gunn’s hands, is an excuse to use a bunch of obscure characters and either turn them into fan-favorites or kill them off without a second’s hesitation — or both.
It Will Be a “Gritty 1970s War Movie,” With Laughs and Plenty of Action
Although the FanDome event featured a preview clip with a bunch of juicy behind-the-scenes footage, it didn’t give away much in the way of plot. One assumes that it will be a riff on the typical Suicide Squad set-up — there’s a dangerous mission, and Amanda Waller offers a group of criminals full pardons if they either complete the mission or die trying.
The clip, which featured lots of gunfire and talk of “exploding genitals,” certainly makes the movie seem action-packed. At FanDome, Gunn said it has “more explosions than any movie ever,” and teased that it had a massive amount of special effects. Producer Peter Safran likened it to a “gritty 1970s war movie combined will the brilliance of James Gunn’s characters and comedy.”
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During FanDome, Gunn said he considered the film to be a spiritual sequel to comic writer John Ostrander’s original 1987 Suicide Squad series rather than an adaptation. “It has the spirit and the lifeblood of the Ostrander books,” Gunn said, noting that he was just adding some of the wonderful and weird characters that have been created for DC in the years since the comic ended.
The release date is summer 2021 and hasn’t changed due to COVID-19
The Suicide Squad is slated to hit theaters on August 6, 2021. The coronavirus pandemic has totally thrown the movie release calendar out of whack, but it appears that The Suicide Squad was spared. In April, Gunn tweeted that they were “extremely fortunate” that they were able to wrap shooting and set up the ability to edit from the crew’s homes before COVID-19 shut down the movie industry. During FanDome, he once again affirmed that the film would hit theaters on August 6 of next year.
The Suicide Squad opens on August 6, 2021.
August 23, 2020 at 03:50AM
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