It feels like Gunn wanted to take the most ridiculous, pathetic characters in DC cannon and then find a way to make them appealing and worth rooting for. Enter the Suicide Squad, but can they even be bothered to save the day? Within that station, run by mad scientist The Thinker (Peter Capaldi), is a threat that could doom the world. The squad must destroy a scientific station on an island nation that has undergone a military coup and great political instability. Skilled marksman Bloodsport (Idris Elba) is extorted into being the defacto leader of a band of squabbling misfits that includes Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), the patriotic warrior Peacemaker (John Cena), the vermin-controlling Ratcatcher (Daniela Melchior), and even a giant living shark, King Shark (voiced by Sylvester Stallone), with a voracious appetite. If they fail, or deviate from their orders, she will detonate an explosive placed within the skulls of Task Force X a.k.a. Not that there was a big hurdle to clear, but this is clearly the superior big screen Suicide Squad.Īmanda Waller (Viola Davis) has assembled another team of criminals and has-beens and tasked them with a mission. Gunn was the perfect person to tackle a project like The Suicide Squad and even with all his goofy humor, gallons of gore, and slapdash dispatching of numerous big names, there's a real affection for these scruffy characters. He could do whatever he wanted creatively, which just happened to be an extremely violent, R-rated sequel that also serves as a soft reboot. Gunn gravitated to the Suicide Squad, though he didn't want to be beholden to the 2016 film from writer/director David Ayer. Gunn had earned a reputation as a blockbuster filmmaker whose bizarre sense of humor and style made him just as much as selling point as the property itself.
They offered Gunn the opportunity to tackle any of their many superhero properties. When Disney foolishly fired writer/director James Gunn for offensive past tweets, tweets the studio had already known about before hiring him to helm the first Guardians of the Galaxy Marvel movie, the brass at DC was more than happy to pounce. If anyone's laying down bets, the smart money is against them-all of them. And as always, one wrong move and they're dead (whether at the hands of their opponents, a teammate, or Waller herself). Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission with only Colonel Rick Flag on the ground to make them behave.and Amanda Waller's government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Today's do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone's favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out-even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A.
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