Anyone else very excited for The Suicide Squad? James Gunn’s upcoming DC film will be released on HBO Max and movie theaters on August 6th. Starring a plethora of talented individuals, the sequel/not-sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 Suicide Squad film, there’s a lot to be excited for. Let’s let some of the people behind the film tell you why:
“This is the Suicide Squad through the vision of James Gunn, It’s very much The Dirty Dozen meets Guardians Of The Galaxy. The reason that the studio was so keen to do this with James is to get that great thing he brings to the table – the comedy, the heart, the action, the look… He had a very specific vision for the film, which he pitched from day one as a 1970s war caper movie.”
Gunn was very excited to take on the task of bringing these team of baddies to the screen for Warner Bros. The studio called up Gunn almost immediately after Disney had initially let the director go after some ten-year old tweets resurfacing. Gunn’s since been brought back to Marvel and will complete the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. But, we’re talking about DC right now. Gunn explains:
“Before agreeing to anything, I took the three ideas that excited me the most. Two were actually DC projects, and then the other one was an original idea. For about a month, every other day I worked on one of those projects, trying to see where the ideas would go. The Suicide Squad really did seem the thing that excited me the most. That’s when I went and told DC – because they’d offered me basically anything [I wanted to make] – that the one I wanted to do was The Suicide Squad.”
Gunn continued:
“They said I could keep [all the characters] or do away with them all. I could do a completely new squad – which I considered – and they said, ‘You can kill anyone.’ Warner were pretty much on board [with the story] from the beginning – it was pretty much firmly in place from the inception of me taking on the project. They were very trusting of me throughout the entire process, almost to the degree to which I was frightened, because it really is all me, 100 per cent – there’s no one to blame if something goes wrong, except for myself!”
As for how does The Suicide Squad tie to Suicide Squad? Gunn explains:
“I think the original film did some amazing casting on those characters, in particular the ones I used. I changed what I wanted to and kind of didn’t fix what wasn’t broken.” That means returns for Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, and Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, along with Robbie’s Harley Quinn – the breakout star of the first Suicide Squad, who’s since gone on to headline the spectacularly titled Birds Of Prey: And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn.”
For the full expose on what to expect in The Suicide Squad, check out the piece by Total Film – who got to visit the set of The Suicide Squad in 2019.
Are you excited for The Suicide Squad?
Source: Total Film
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