It's a brand new mission to martyrdom in the trailer for James Gunn's The Suicide Squad
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The long, bloody road to a relaunch is finally here, as the trailer for DC’s semi-all-new, James Gunn-helmed The Suicide Squad has arrived. As you might expect, it looks to be bloody, profane, and notably different from the much-maligned David Ayer film that pleased roughly a dozen or so people back in 2016.
Is it too obvious to point out that, holy hell, this looks like a lot of fun? Yes, trailers can be deceiving—the first Suicide Squad had an awfully good one, after all—but still, from the jokes to the action to the fact that King Shark gets to eat a guy, everything about this seems like it’s perfectly pitched to capture the outlandish fun inherent in this team.
The list of new characters is much, much longer than the list of returning ones (the latter consists of little more than Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney’s Captain Boomerang, and Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag, led once more by Viola Davis’ Machiavellian Amanda Waller). You can check out our The Suicide Squad character breakdown to get a more detailed explanation of each new character and their abilities, but the short listing is [deep breath]: Steve Agee as King Shark, Alice Braga as Sul Soria, Flula Borg as Javelin, Peter Capaldi as the Thinker, John Cena as Peacemaker, David Dastmalchian as Polka-Dot Man, Pete Davidson as Blackguard, Nathan Fillion as T.K.D., Sean Gunn as Weasel, Daniela Melchor as Ratcatcher 2, Mayling Ng as Mongal, and Michael Rooker as Savant.
We may as well all settle in and watch this trailer a bunch more times, because The Suicide Squad isn’t coming out until August 6. Hopefully, by then we’ll all be vaccinated, and can thus go to the movie theaters to collectively enjoy the experience the joy of watching King Shark rip a dude straight down the middle, guts spilling everywhere.
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So this is what it feels like to be excited for a DC superhero movie. Inbetween all the hastags for the Snyder Cut and Restore The Snyderverse I’d almost forgotten what that feels like.Though the movie still seems to be missing the greatest member of Suicide Squad: Grant Morrison…They died almost immediately of writer’s block…
Though the movie seems to be missing the greatest member of Suicide Squad: Yeah but it has Starro the Conqueror, so that makes up for it.
They already have the PG version ready to go.
Starro: “It seems we have reached an impasse.”
Wow, Hal found an even dumber use for his ring than “giant green fist”.
With the introduction of Starro, perhaps we may even one day get the best Robin…Jarro.
My thoughts exactly! I don’t mind Starro, but Jarro? Jarro is the best and must be introduced into the DCU to help save it. Also, even more importantly, to give us merch. I have needed a Jarro plush for YEARS.
Is that Batman punching Robin’s starfish in that panel- OH COME ON.
I’ve been wondering if DC/WB would pull the trigger on Starro in a movie. It seemed like it had to happen eventually, but so far nothing in the DCEU has had that kind of vibe.
So, uh, so Flash is just gonna ram his fist into the centre of that…starfish, huh?
I’d much much much rather see more Morrison adaptations than anything more by Kirkman or Millar
I personally feel like WB should just split their DCEU into two seperate studios. One for movies meant for general audiences and one for more experimental stuff. Call the former DC Studios and the latter DC Vertigo Studios. That way they can have the type pf adult oritented superhero movies without tainting the brand for general audiences like what happened with the DCEU with DC Murderverse.
The could EASILY have done that. Just label everything Elseworld and continue one with shit that works. I can’t believe they haven’t yet
…the first three eps of Invincible have been *really fucking great*.Meanwhile, Ultimates and Kingsman have given us two of the best comic book movies I’ve ever seen.It’s one thing to knock Miller’s comic writing…but his movie premises are pretty fucking phenomenal.
Hollywood writers adapting some of the shittiest comics made in the last twenty years into decent movies is not a compliment for Millar.
I mean, the fact that he’s a talented guy makes it *way worse* that he hasn’t written a good comic in well over a decade, haha!Saying a lazy sellout who refuses to put in the effort to turn his genuinely good ideas into an actual story isn’t a “compliment.”It’s calling him Adam Sandler, as opposed to Jim Belushi.
Also, apparently Suicide Squad writer John Ostrander has a cameo in this.He’s the doctor giving the colonoscopy to Michael Rooker in the trailer.https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Exba4lCVgAQ3RsA?format=jpg&name=small
Fun fact: King Shark has his own theme song
do do do do do
I can always depend on you, Laserface1242 🙂
What are you talking about, this guy just posts a Google search every time, he never has any idea what he’s bringing up
almost a mantra, I’d say
My favourite was‘King Shark is a Shark!’*John Constantine runs up, all self-serious like*Also, great use of ‘fuckknuckle’.
I have never known about this and it has made my morning soooo much better.
Is that supposed to be the “singing shark” meme?
Yes. Welcome to the rotting undead tomb of superhero comics for the last decade and a half
That better be in the movie.
Don’t worry, the movie will probably fucking suck in exactly that way
Shut the fuck up
From the beautifully twisted mind of Gail Simone. She can write rings around Gunn.
I just want one “I’m not a fish! I’m a SHARK!” in the movie somewhere.
Bloodsport: “We’re all going to die.”Polka Dot Man: “…I hope so.” I already love Polka Dot Man.
I hope he survives or at least survives longer.
Dollars to doughnuts there will be a FEW on the squad that we’ll grow to love and see die in this film.
STARRO!
I laughed out loud multiple times. I watched with a sense of actual amusement and delight. Is this what it feels like to optimistically look forward to a DCEU movie?
You can think of it as a James Gunn movie that just happens to have a DC team instead of a Marvel one if that makes it less weird for you. I know it’s helped me process this strange event in our shared cinematic history.
I wasn’t fully onboard until they dropped Starro. Okay, okay, you got me.
Fun in a DC movie? Edgelord fans will be pissed.
Fun in a DC movie?
I feel like the Snyder cut has really overshadowed the last couple of DC movies, all of which were pretty strong in their own ways. Specifically Aquaman, Shazam, and Birds of Prey. I know WB has been pretty much blowing it with DC the last almost 10 years but I kind of think they are on the right track now.
I feel like Aquaman is going to end up a cult classic. It’s got that Face / Off zany-fun gene.
Definitely one of those take it or leave it kind of films.
Aqauman is a bit of a stretch. It wasn’t terrible but it also sounded like it was written by a 12 year old. To this day whenever I hear Aquaman mentioned I think about poor Patrick Wilson trying his hardest to make “Ocean master” sound awesome and I giggle.
Truth is Aquaman is watchable, but it’s dumb as a bag of hammer…heads. Is that the best I can do. Damn, I need to sleep.
That and all the times the dialogue is interrupted by a SUDDEN EXPLOSION.Honestly I don’t get the love for Aquaman… for me it was too long, too boring and somehow both too serious and too silly at the same time. So really not all that different from Snyder’s DC fare.
I’m on the same page with you about Aquaman. I kinda get that people like the huge budget campy thing, I just didn’t enjoy it at all. Is this a stoner thing maybe? Smoking weed is cool and should be legal, it just doesn’t work for me and I find there’s certain movies weed fans love that also doesn’t work for me.
That’s one possible explanation, although I dunno… I definitely get how weed can make certain movies better, but for me those tend to be movies with OTT action/violence, comedies, or mind-benders. Aside from a few trippy underwater visuals I can’t see that being high would’ve improved this one for me too much. That might just be me though.
Yeah. I mean, I think WB is recognizing that maybe the notion of a tightly shared universe isn’t the only way to go with their franchises, and they seem to be doing a good job of making diverse, fun movies that take advantage of the characters and settings. Not all of their output in the past few years has been for me, but I feel like the direction has changed in a hugely positive way since the Justice League faceplant.
Nah, they’ll just spam #RestoreTheSnyderverse on Twitter in the hopes WB is gullible enough to fall for that shit a second time.
That, and tell people to not support this film.
Laserface, I have a question in the greys for you. I promise it’s not an shitty one. Please check as a fellow comic lover but one far far more knowledgeable on the DC part of things
Snyder Cut was an interesting fluke because it was mostly finished (not entirely complete and locked away as the nosy extremists liked to believe). Sure they dumped 70 million more dollars to finish it but considering how much they dump on various HBOMax Lenna Durham series and movies like Locked Down nobody watches, 70 million is a steal. Huge difference between that and WB throwing 300 million more to make two more from nothing.I think it’d be interesting if Snyder got to finish his Justice League series but not at the expense of new and interesting stuff like The Suicide Squad. I think “restore” the Snyderverse is bad cuz it implies that it’s the only one true way to make DC Universe. But I’d be okay if WB went crazy and threw half a billion dollars at Snyder for 2 more 4 hour side quest movies. I mean what else is HBOMAX going to make (aside from Raised by Wolves which is awesome but a lot of thier original programming has been a whiff)
Brings fun to the DCU aaand it should silent the “MCU has too much humor and wisecracking” crowd.
Unfortunately it won’t. The DC fanboys will complain Gunn too much liberty with the characters. I hope Gunn can bring some of that Marvel magic and DC learns not to take themselves less seriously.
There are some who are anticipating the movie, but yea, many of the big Snyder Cultists are dismissing the film immediately in favor of trying to get the original cut of the first film released. Though a bunch of people are dancing and laughing over Zack being executive producer, as if the title of executive producer actually meant anything.
It’s weird that some Snyder fans are viewing this as another encroaching Marvel director, rather than the guy who wrote Zack Snyder’s first movie.It’s also really crazy how far we’ve come that James Gunn doesn’t register as “edgelord” anymore. Yeah, he did two Marvel movies, but Super was directly before those, and Slither was right before that (and he produced Brightburn, the “what if Superman was evil” movie written by his brothers, after both Guardians movies). Try-hard grossness and hip nihilism are his default mode of operation, and it’s almost certain WB gave him far more leeway than Disney ever did.As a fan of both Snyder and Gunn, so much of this has been so goddamn confusing.
I mean, they still think Walter Hamada was behind the Whedon cut and that Geoff Johns didn’t contribute anything to the original Snyder version.
I will say that I’d have expected Snyder’s Jonathan Kent to raise the kid from Brightburn given his parenting style and suicide by tornado.
But yeah, Gunn had rough but enjoyable films and turned out to be good at doing ‘family’ films too.
Look, I thought the last Suicide Squad trailer looked fun. We all know how that turned out to be. Wasted potential, alas.But this is a whole ‘nother level of fun. Everything looks tactile! The action looks legible! STARRO!! It took the few bright spots from Ayer’s film (mainly the casting: Harley, Boomerang, Waller, etc.) and ported it over. The costumes are fantastic. Like, they all look ridiculous, but in a good way? I’m excited.
I thought the last Suicide Squad trailer looked fun. We all know how that turned out to be.To be fair to David Ayer, that film was cut to ribbons in the editing room. Based on his other work the finished product probably wouldn’t have been great, but still…
RELEASE THE AYER CUT!!!!!!!!
RELEASE THE A.J. AYER CUT!!!! SUPERS IN RELATION TO LOGICAL POSITIVISM!
Ugh, don’t even joke about that. There are people who’ve unironically tried to get that going ever since they gave in and let Snyder have Justice League back.Seriously, about a third of the comments on the official trailer’s YouTube posting are people demanding that DC “Restore the Snyderverse,” which I guess means “make sure every DC movie from here on out is brown, slow-motion, and joyless.” (I’ll let you add your own optional scatological follow-up to what I now realize is an unfortunate phrase but don’t feel like revising.)
Those same whiny Snyder bitches are actually saying that now.
Sigh.
I’d be kind of curious to see what the actual Ayer cut
would look like. Given his track record it might be interesting to have
an R-rated Joker/Harley Quinn movie with the same type of feel as
Training Day or End of Watch. Then again, maybe superhero stuff just wouldn’t work with that sort of feel.
That being said, while David Ayer has both written and directed some good movies, they generally aren’t ‘fun’ movies. I didn’t see Suicide Squad, but it seems like a no-brainer that first doubling down on the Snyder-initated grittiness with Ayer, and then trying to take the result and turn it into an MCU-esqe quipfest would be a fools errand. Like trying to recut Training Day into a buddy comedy.
James Gunn has a pretty good track record though. And his movie’s trailers tend to be an accurate depiction of the film.
the last trailer also had a lot of hints of its troubles, this one looks like it’s really hitting the fun parts!
I always thought the trailer for the last Suicide Squad suffered from a strong case of the try-hards. “Look at how edgy and irreverant we are! Look, we’re playing retro music tracks just like those Galactic Guardians all you kids like! Could you turn this into one of those….whatchacallits…’me-mes’ on social media?”Still, I gave it a fair shake…and it was frustratingly bad. There was potential there, if only they could have trimmed the BS out.This trailer, on the other hand, is hitting all the right notes. Granted, it could still go wrong, but I’m optimistic nonetheless. It’s got a pretty solid cast. Viola Davis was always a good choice for Waller. John Cena is an inspired choice for Peacemaker. And Idris Elba is captivating no matter what he does. But, above all, I think this movie gets the central conceit of Ostrander’s Suicide Squad: throwing a bunch of volitaile criminals together in a team, putting them in dangerous, stressful scenarios, and then just seeing what transpires.It’s not the most complicated concept, nor even an original one, but it seems to be deceptively hard to pull off just right.Extra credit: the current ongoing run of Suicide Squad (written by Tom Taylor) manages to both stay true to the pulpy, soap-opera theatrics while also adding a fresh new spin on the idea (elevator pitch: metahuman activists take over the Suicide Squad). Here is an amuse-bouche to whet your appetite:
Taylor’s a great writer – he made the Injustice prequels so much better than they had any right to be. Glad he’s getting main line work.
Even the casting carryover that I was most “meh” about, Kinnamon as Rick Flagg, is saying funny things and doing stuff instead of just being a cardboard cut out soldier-guy!
It gives me less a feeling of the trailer release for Suicide Squad and more of the feeling around the first trailer release of Guardians of the Galaxy. James Gunn has a whole career showing he’s an adept for character development, and it seems like he gives great direction for actors to embody their characters. On the first SS, it’s clear that David Ayer rests on his career of films that run light on character depth and heavy on action drama. His vision seemed like it was going to be really dry on what brings comic fan butts in seats, so when WB saw the trailer house killed it with their little goofy trailer at Comic Con, they contracted them to edit the film into something less Ayer’s vision, especially trying to avoid another BvS. It seems like what resulted was a film edited to be stylized, shot to be grounded and edgy, and a film that doesn’t represent the actual tone of the film. Gunn’s TSS looks like the trailer gives more of a vibe of what the film will be in tone, even without giving away major plot.
I am legitimately sad that Ron Funches will not be the voice of King Shark. His version of the character in Harley Quinn was amazing and funny. Would have fit right in.
Wow. That looks frigging fantastic.
I like this trailer, but I’ve been burned by Suicide Squad before. The 2016 crapfest still cobbled together a decent trailer.
This is at least a better trailer than that one. (I never saw the actual movie because “Damaged” forehead tattoo Joker.)
Yeah from what I recall, the trailer from the first movie seemed to be going for a “you guys liked Guardians of the Galaxy, right? Well, we here at DC can do wacky and offbeat, too!”And then the movie tried to really lean into that in the first ten minutes (wacky character intros!), then went back to being a kill-the-zombies movie.So I guess it makes sense that they got Gunn for this.Also, Joel Kinnaman / Rick Flagg is almost unrecognizable from the first film, as in he seems to have an actual personality other than moping over Cara Delevingne. (Not the actor’s fault, that’s all the script had him do.)
Joaquin Cosio’s in this? Tempting.
Well hot damn I actually want to see that movie!2021 is gonna bring all kinds of strange shit, right?
now i don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, and i’m not some snyder superfan, or an mcu superfan, and i like most of gunn’s work…but i pretty much hated this trailer. the dicks joke made me wince. obviously still gonna watch it and wait until then, but did not inspire confidence. also ‘from the horribly beautiful mind of james gunn’ was really terrible.
Ok thank you. I think differently.
you’re welcome!
Gotta say I agree. Different strokes for different folks, but nothing about this grabbed me
Agreed. But I’m coming from a place of wishing they’d stop trying to make the suicide squad happen. DC just needs to move on. I mean, I didn’t mind the James Gunn marquee, but the toilet bowl, the King Shark hand, the bag of dicks- These attempts at quips are pretty weak. But look oh look violence! My takeaway is I just watched a trailer for Look How Edgy It Is: The Movie
yeah it just felt, like, 20% too quippy. i liked some of the jokes but there were so many, all the time. i don’t mind a suicide squad movie conceptually…but maybe it only works conceptually. however, again, this is just the trailer i’m talking about.
I think they’re running up against the problem that they can’t make the humor as dark as it needs to be to work with the gritty, more serious, more mature tone of the DC-verse. The Suicide Squad is a bleak premise to begin with, more so than Deadpool’s, and if you don’t place that in a slightly unreal context then the only humor in it is going to be bleak as hell.
I feel like all of that was going for a very Deadpool kind of vibe. You could easily throw him into this trailer and he’d fit.
Yah but like he can’t die so like what would he be doing in a suicide squad film y’know?
Wasn’t the last one re-cut to be more like Guardians, contributing greatly to how much of a mess it was? Suicide Squad should have always leaned towards dark comedy, so the Deadpool vibe is a step in the right direction. Here’s hoping they don’t fuck it up with a bunch of lolrandom humor and meta shit.
He would shoot Captain Boomerang himself, let Waller blow up his head, & then reattach his head & go home.
It’s not like the Deadpool movie is a unique and new concept in anyway.
Yeah, a poor idea all around
I liked the dick joke.
Yeah, I have to say I’m pretty on the fence about the trailer. I think Gunn’s worst tendencies were reined in by the PG-13 restrictions he had at Marvel. This gives me reddit-level edginess vibes.
I’m all for the gore and violence, but the pithy dialogue just seems lazy. “Bag of dicks” wore out its welcome before “dumpster fire” got 2020-ed to death.
Not even the walking shark eating a guy? That must have sparked some joy, no?
yeah i’ll give you that.
Beyond the human snooze that is the DCEU’s Harley Quinn (love Robbie. I’ll never forgive that trash take on the character for hijacking my BoP movie), the trailer looked really fucking fun.
MALCOLM FUCKING TUCKER IS IN THIS I DON’T CARE:
Yup
“the dicks joke made me wince.”Maybe, but holy hell is John Cena a great scene partner.
As one of the twelve people who kinda liked the original Suicide Squad, this trailer makes its movie look kinda bad.Which might only mean the trailer is accurate this time.
Yeah I’m happy for anyone excited for it and I’ll probably check it out eventually but this trailer evaporated from my memory the second it was over.
Very much looking forward to Suicide Squad 2: Sorry About Suicide Squad 1. Soon to be followed by Shang Chi: Sorry About Iron Fist, and eventually X-Men: Sorry About Inhumans.
Agents of SHIELD was pre-emptively sorry about Inhumans by doing them right the first time.
Much as I loved AoS…a key factor in how well they did the Inhumans (and the Kree), is that it played ZERO ROLE in the Infinity Saga.Which is where Inhuman stories belong – they’re far more interesting when they don’t really matter.
I musta missed that season.Oh right, Kyle Maclachlan was stealing every scene he was in.
My girl Harley’s rocking a new look and no male gaze-y shots of her in sight, life is good
My days of not seeing DC movies have certainly come to a middle.
I’m betting Stallone is gonna voice Starro the Conqueror.
I thought Stallone was voicing King Shark
That’s Steve Agee
Twitter chatter says they swapped him for Stallone late in production. Not sure if it’s true
That makes sense. It seems like an odd choice to have Steve Agee, who isn’t known for physicality in his work, just being a mocap actor. Maybe Stallone expressed interest partway through, or maybe they just decided to take King Shark in a different direction after they started putting everything together.
I actually thought it sounded like Ron Perlman from the three syllables we hear from KS in the trailer.
I’ve read it’s Steve Agee as the body, and Sylvester Stallone as the voice.
Ah, that’s interesting.
Agee is doing motion capture, they’ve said it is Stallone doing the voice. Now Taika Waititi has an undisclosed role so he may be Starro.
Ron Funches is the only acceptable answer for King Shark.
Well yeah but that would make it to close to the perfection that is the Harley Quinn animated series. Birds of Prey wasn’t even aloud to be that good
I think it’s official now that Stallone is King Shark (at least that’s what Wikipedia told me).
Ya, I heard that as well. Forget I said anything.
Frank?
Is it too obvious to point out that, holy hell, this looks like a lot of fun?*Long exasperated sigh.We’ve really have given up, haven’t we?
Oh look, it’s the Fun Eater.
Guardians of the Squad does look good, I’m excited for this.
One of my biggest issues (insert NO ONE CARES here but fuck you, I can comment on whatever I want) with the first movie is that the action, while being boring, was also against a bunch of faceless zombie things. Suicide Squad need to be killing real folk, and die to real folk. I’m a bit worried about Starro being the villain (unless that’s a feint) but he’s most likely controlling real people and therefore maybe I’ll be mollified a bit.
At any rate, you really have only one way to go but up. But will this win an OSCAR? Psh. Doubtful.
“Suicide Squad need to be killing real folk, and die to real folk.”So the Suicide Squad takes out Neil Young, but then Joni Mitchell and Joan Baez team up and take out King Shark?
Objectively a better film than the first one at least.
They tried to get Tracy Chapman too, but she had a fast car.
Hopefully the Suicide Squad will team up with anti-folksters The Moldy Peaches.
For real, the action in the first one was the most generic action against the most generic faceless horde I can remember in a big budget action or superhero movie. It felt like all B-roll footage that you would insert between the “hero” shots, but they forgot to film the hero shots. Michael Bay managed to make Will Smith look exciting when he was just standing there by shooting from the low angle and y’know, moving the camera, but then Ayer has Smith’s Deadshot standing on a car blazing automatic wrist guns and its fucking boring. I feel like there was maybe 30 seconds of fun or exciting action with Harley fighting a few of them in the elevator and that was it. Captain Boomerang threw ONE boomerang, and it was a fucking camera boomerang! What’s the point of having boomerangs if you just stab people with them? He’s not Captain Stabby Guy!
Why does that licky lemur thing look so much like Pete Davidson?
If he’s not King Shark, does this mean Taika Waititi is voicing Starro the Conqueror?
I just now realized how much I want that to happen.
King Shark’s madras shorts are a nice touch.
According to Gunn, Stallone is voicing King Shark, and Waititi is not voicing Starro.
Suicide Squad always has “people to demonstrate how serious Waller is about the neck bombs” and i do believe that this has roughly 5 or 6 who are there to demonstrate it. The trailer mostly showcases Harls, Ratcatcher, King Shark, Bloodshot, Peacemaker, and Polka Dot Man (not counting Rick since he’s team leader and not a felon so, no bomb)
My bets are Weasel, Savant, Blackgaurd, TKD, and Sul Soria are fodder, with Mongal being, and i’m not as much a DC fan as I am a marvel one so I really hope Laserface checks the greys and corrects me, but is Mongal a gender-flipped version of the Superman enemy or is she someone else and his name is spelled Mongul?
Well I’m glad Gunn was able to get a paycheck while all the twitter BS was surrounding him and that WB proving he was employable probably played a role in getting him back into GotG, but this all looks a little too “try hard” for my taste. The one bit I do like is the trailer at least managed to let Kinnaman be and feel like a leading man, instead of the kind of generic place holder that he was in the first film.
Dang it , I cant resist anything that remixes Dirty Work by Steely Fan.
Ah, I knew I recognize that song! It was just out of reach of my brain for some reason.
Bloody Autocorrect ..that was obviously Steely Dan
Take THAT, Leonard Cohen!
I just hope I’m vaccinated by October, when Dune comes out.
Peter Capaldi kinda, sorta – if you squint- looks like Davros.Count me in
Praise be that James Gunn cast the best Doctor as the villain.
Michael Rooker, huh? Okay. I’ll watch it.
there are so many things in this trailer by far the worst is at 2:50 for a few moments Margot Robbie is Anne Hathaway as the Good Witch Glinda which means she’s Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz. (8-10 p.m., TCM) — Transported to a surreal land-scape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.” then just as she looks down and smiles she’s Joanna Cassidy the kinetic movement in the image is from a painting of a girl tall thin young pretty dancer’s build wearing a metallic coloured raincoat standing on a curb on a city street bright sunny spring day putting out her left hand palm up to feel raindrops opens her umbrella with her right hand puts it up steps off the curb with her right foot wham it’s from Blade Runner “That didn’t make me feel any better about shooting a woman in the back” jeez you fucking people
I’m mildly bummed. I didn’t realize til I watched the trailer, that I had some emotional investment in “all DC movies suck except Wonder Woman, MOST ESPECIALLY Suicide Squad.” This looks really entertaining –I enjoyed the hell out of the first Guardians movie.
Oh, there’s still plenty of time for the studio to screw it up.
I’m intrigued, but man, it seems like a lot of characters. I’m assuming they won’t need lengthy intros, but that’s the only thing that makes me a little…huh about it.
Paraphrasing what other folks have said, the Squad will likely be whittled down within the first third of the movie into a smaller group of antiheroes.
Likely the route the movie will take. Like how in The Dirty Dozen only a few of them make it.
Yep that’s right. I saw the film four years ago and the deaths took me by surprise. Seeing a young Donald Sutherland in a supporting role was neat too.
Based on the amount of screen time they got here, I feel comfortable saying that Blackguard, Javelin, Weasel, TDK, Mongal, and probably Ratcatcher, Solsoria, Captain Boomerang, and the Thinker are all dead, the first group by the halfway point. If Polka Dot Man lives, there will be at least one joke about it. At least one of the people with more of a speaking role will also die, but other than “not Harley,” it’s harder to pin down which one.
I’m 200% here for King Shark, but I’m also wondering if he’ll get it early simply because of the CGI element. Depends on what their budget feelings were on this one.
You also have Weasel as a CGI character, so I would expect at least one of them to die to relieve the FX team. King Shark is a main character in the upcoming SS game and has niche popularity so he has good odds to live, but Weasel is played by the director’s brother and it would be much funnier for that hideous creature (Weasel the character, not throwing shade at Sean Gunn the actor) to survive when big name actors bite it, so its hard to call the odds.
And I’m sure WB /could/ afford the CGI if they’re into it. I was just like “aww, I hope King Shark hangs in there,” which may be a reaction that says more about me than anything else.
I’m interested to see how they end up looking in the full movie, because despite having the same budgets as Marvel movies DC’s movie CGI often looks a lot shittier for some reason. In just the couple seconds we got in the trailer I would say King Shark already looked better than Cheetah in WW:84’s trailer (still haven’t watched the full movie yet, the universal “meh” reaction convinced me it was not priority viewing).
I finally saw WW84, and the Cheetah looks fine (except that there’s a bit where she falls into water, and as soon as she’s out of it, she’s bone-dry, which annoyed me in the way that such things always do).
Not having a human face at all will help keep him out of the uncanny valley.
Given that there are two “badass walk in slow mo” scenes and no shots of anybody from the first one interacting with the second, my current theory is that there are two squads, the real one and a B-team that gets wiped out early to establish the stakes.
Ratcatcher 2 seems safe enough.
This looks absolutely delightful. The first one tried to be Guardians of the Galaxy and failed, so I’m looking forward to seeing this one actually do it.
Hopefully this one is good so we can complete the trilogy, presumably with a film titled A Suicide Squad.
Plenty more places then can if they want to extend the franchise:One Suicide SquadConsider: The Suicide SquadBehold! A Suicide SquadOn The Suicide Squad (by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured characters in the struggle for mad bantz)
The Suicide Squad DelusionThe Selfish Suicide SquadThe Greatest Suicide Squad on EarthThe Blind Suicide SquadThe Suicide Squad’s TaleThe Magic of the Suicide Squad: How We Know What’s Really TrueUnweaving the Suicide Squad: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder
Plus the one where they have their lair near a wastewater outlet: The Sewer Side Squad.
My Dinner With Suicide SquadThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and the Suicide SquadThe Suicide Squad of Music
Suicide SquadropheniaPeggy Suicide Squad Got MarriedSuicide Squad’s Excellent Adventure
I’m still hoping that they finish out the Alien trilogy with Aliens’
Battle For the Suicide Squad
Conquest of the Suicide Squad
Beneath the Suicide Squad
It’d probably be getting my hopes up too much for King Shark to be at all like his Harley Quinn incarnation.
The trailer for the first movie was only good because someone edited it to Bohemian Rhapsody extremely well. The things actually taking place throughout the trailer looked stupid.This one legitimately looks excellent.
John Cena’s character seems fun. I hope he doesn’t die too quickly.Also, my favorite modern Doctor is in it so I’m mildly interested.
He won’t
Although it would be a fun trick if his show is a prequel series and he bites it in the movie. Hell, Black Widow didn’t get her own movie til after she died!
Fair point
Any time you refer to Peter Capaldi as “The Doctor” Malcolm Fucking Tucker calls you a cunt.
I’d pay for an evening of that.
Hopefully they play Steely Dan in the film proper.
I agree, but that they play the entirety of Can’t Buy A Thrill, on a loop, throughout the film. Just have every scene inexplicably backed by a Dan song, depending on where they are in the album at that point.
Yeah but do it chronologically starting from the first Steely Dan song dude.
You make a good point, I was trying to half-arse it.
Using it in this Suicide Squad sequel makes perfect sense, given that the first song on their first album is titled “Do It Again”
I fucking hate Steely Dan, but that’s a great idea.
I am ALL IN
Birds of Prey was loads of fun. This…has a talking shark and dick jokes?
Eclipso in Stargirl. Starro in Suicide Squad. It’s a good time to like weird DC villains.
But wait, no one in that trailer said, “We’re the bad guys.” How are we supposed to know who the bad guys are? Big mistake, guys.
It bothers me that you list all white actors and completely not mention Idris Elba…
Unoriginal even boring opinion here but: I’m far more on board with the wildly uneven, frequently rubbish but occasionally inspired DC superhero films than the machine-tooled Marvel stable (mixing metaphors here – the *thoroughbred* Marvel stable). Also this has the guy from For All Mankind in it, and Robbie is an utter delight in everything. Pile on the absurdities! There is nothing more risible than taking a “superhero” seriously.
I don’t think I have been this excited for a DC movie since The Dark Knight Rises. I ended up being incredibly disappointed by that movie, but Gunn has not disappointed me yet so my hype level is still at maximum.
Shout out for product placement. TDK is drinking a Mr. Pibb, he second-best Dr. Pepper, in a movie about the B-list DC villains.
Literally everyone on the team dies or the movie has failed
Don’t know if anyone has a – ahem – dead pool going, but my money is on Pete Davidson being the first Slipknot.
Is it me or does this trailer telegraph everyone who’s going to die in the first 20 minutes of the film?
As others have said I thought the other Suicide Squad looked good from the 1st trailer but holy shit does this look fun!KING FUCKING SHARK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! STARRO!!!!!!!!!!!!James Gunn made the 2nd best Marvel Movie to me by 2014 (Sadly for him it came out the same year as the best one in Winter solider) and it still maybe the 1st, 2nd most fun marvel film (Thor 3 may beat it) so I have so much faith in him that this will be great.As someone said on twitter, damn you james gunn for making us cry when you probably kill off Polka Dot man. I mean it is his style.
We all know that if Zack Snyder was in charge, King Shark would have sixteen abs.
Sylvester Stallone does the voice for King Shark. Steve Agee just….did the mo-cap/stand-in work? That seems odd.
What, no mention of Idris Elba as Bloodsport? If there is one highlight of the movie (apart from Margot Robbie), it’s him!