We won’t get to watch James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad until next August month but there are some new details about the film coming out.
James Gunn took to Twitter to reveal that Warner Bros. allowed him to kill any of the characters he wanted after a fan suggested that certain characters and high-profile actors were safe because of their usefulness in future films.
GUNN: “No character was protected by DC. They gave me carte blanche to do what I wanted. That was one of the things we agreed to before I came to work for them. I wasn’t looking for shock value but I wanted the audience to know anything could happen.”
The Direct also caught-wind of a Reddit post from someone with an early copy of the latest issue of Empire Magazine where producer Peter Safran reveals that the Latin American location in footage will be the fictional island nation of Corto Maltese and happens to be the home of a Nazi facility called Jotunheim where experiments took place on prisoners. These excerpts have circulating at other sites.
SAFRAN: “There they have to destroy a Nazi-era prison and laboratory named Jotunheim where political prisoners were held and experimentations took place.”
The Nazi connection and material that could be covered there might help to support the assumption that the film might indeed end up landing an R-rating.
The sizzle-reel trailer that dropped during DC FanDome also seemingly revealed that the villain of the film might be alien baddie Starro.
Here is a rundown of the cast.
- Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn
- Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
- Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang
- Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag
- Idris Elba as Bloodsport
- John Cena as Peace-Maker
- Alice Braga as Sol Soria
- Pete Davidson as Blackguard
- Peter Capaldi as Thinker
- David Dastmalchian as Poka-Dot Man
- Michael Rooker as The Savant
- Sean Gunn as Weasel
- Mayling Ng as Mongal
- Flula Borg as Javelin
- Steve Agee as King Shark (body)
- Daniela Melchior as Rat Catcher
- Nathan Fillion as TDK
- Julio Ruiz as Major General Suarez
- Juan Diego Botto as General Luna
The Suicide Squad is set to be released on August 6th, 2021.
SOURCE: JAMES GUNN & EMPIRE MAGAZINE
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