The Suicide Squad loads up on new members in the latest trailer
James Gunn's take on DC's best worst bad guys looks like a real good time
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The Suicide Squad’s big bad is Starro. We think. Whatever it is, it’s part of something called “Project Starfish,” and as John Cena’s Peacemaker points out, starfish is also a slang term for “butthole.” With that one line, Cena makes a pretty decent case for his upcoming HBO Max spinoff.
In the video posted to Youtube, Jai Courtney introduces the newest trailer for the James Gunn-directed sorta-kinda-sequel to the other Suicide Squad movie (which was sorta-kinda bad), in which he reprises his role as Captain Boomerang alongside Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag, and Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller. Gunn packed the rest of the ensemble with a new crew of unlikely heroes, including Idris Elba’s Bloodsport, who gets a bit more screen time in the latest trailer. Other highlights, besides the obvious (King Shark! King Shark! King Shark!): An apparent nod to Harley’s solo movie, in which Robbie slow-mo screams amid an explosion of color, a weasel-person-creature who ate 27 children (?!?!?!?!), and Storm Reid, who plays Bloodsport’s kiddo—and his motive for joining the Squad.
Here’s the official synopsis for The Suicide Squad, which hits theaters and HBO Max on August 6:
Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. 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. 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. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. 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. And as always, one wrong move and they’re dead (whether at the hands of their opponents, a teammate, or Waller herself). If anyone’s laying down bets, the smart money is against them—all of them.
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Chris Evans nailed it lol
That’s because Boomers just play “Whole Lotta Lovin’” yet another time.
CHRIS Evans? He’s really let himself go after he got fired from playing Steve Rogers!Just kidding, I love Dick the Birthday Boy.
Well he could be talking about Jay Bauman, who does have kind of a Chris Evans thing going on.
I mean Rich Evans lol!
Lol, that is disturbingly uncanny.Also, it shows how much attention I’ve paid to their credits- I’ve been following RLM since I think their Episode 2 or 3 Plinkett review, and wouldn’t’ve been able to tell you Jay’s surname- Mike & Rich, easy, but I space on pretty much everybody else.
Rich Evans. Fuck! lol!
I assume Deadshot is busy doing what he does best: teaching…
“Skinheads? More like pinheads.”As a kid who mostly read X-Men, I love to read these about all the others. You are a treasure, Laserface.
I miss these idiots.
How would you surgically extract a Kryptonite bullet from Supes? Nothing short of Kyptonite or magic would be able to pierce his skin. Like, yeah you can put him under solar radiation from a red sun that would de-power him but would have difficulty removing the bullet under the intense gravity.
It’s been done a few different ways, Justice League: Doom had a memorable one that involved Cyborg cutting with a kryptonite-filtered laser and then Martian Manhunter snaking in to remove the bullet.
Yeah you need a Krptonite laser to cut him and Bats has it. Because Bats has everything. Because well you know….
Pretty sure Flash could get it out using his fuckin’ magic speed shit
Potentially the kryptonite’s being in there weakens the skin in the area enough for standard surgical equipment to work. Depends on how the writer wants to approach the weakening effects of kryptonite.
Magic.
I think its still one of his weaknesses that doesn’t really get abused nearly as much as Kryptonite.
i’m so excited. who are we thinking lasts till the end? i think everyone dies except for harley and maybe bloodsport? i know there’s a peacemaker show but idk if that takes place before or after this movie. my guesses are based on my thinking that there won’t be a sequel but there definitely will be one if this does well. if there’s a sequel, rick flagg stays alive. boomerang and king shark are favorites though but james gunn said that pretty much everyone dies.
It’s pretty suspicious that no one in the Waller briefing is on the helicopter, and they’re shown “rescuing” Harley Quinn in the other trailer. My working theory is that there are two squads, and the first one, including everyone on the helicopter except Quinn and Flagg, gets wiped out in the first 15-30 minutes. One or more of them may show up as a Starro-controlled zombie to be blithely killed by the new squad later.
Yeah I suspect its this. The first squad gets wiped out in that nighttime sequence on the beach except for Harley who gets captured, the second squad that seems to be dominating the trailers go in after them and are the main characters – King Shark, Ratcatcher, Polka Dot Man, Peacemaker, Bloodsport, etc. I’m willing to bet Boomerang is presumed dead but shows up alive at the end.
Given that Harley seems to be wielding Javelin’s javelin in half her footage, I don’t fancy his chances much.
If Javelin is in the movie past the 40 mark I will eat a hat. (I won’t, but still, I’m fairly confident)
the other (which was sorta-kinda bad)
Wasn’t Henry Cavill rumoured to be making small ‘Nick Fury’ style cameos in future DC movies? Superman getting shot by a kryptonite bullet seems like something that should be seen and not just referenced.
As somebody with absolutely no stake in the Marvel versus DC rivalry…I didn’t think the original Suicide Squad was bad? Like, it wasn’t great, but it felt roughly on par with a majority of pre-MCU superhero films. So…you know…decently entertaining…not aggressively terrible…and screened in a theater with air conditioning.Then again, I’m possibly the easiest audience in the world when it comes to films and television. I rarely think too hard about what I’m watching while I’m watching it, take pretty much everything at face value, and just kinda let the programming wash over me.
So, can you name a movie that you thought was actually good, or great? Or one that’s bad/terrible? It sounds like you maybe don’t pay attention too closely or care about things like plot or character, and that makes EVERYTHING sort of okay in the abstract.Seriously. The first Suicide Squad was abysmal. Lackluster at best and incoherent at worst.
I highly recommend the original Suicide Squad as a sick watch. It moves pretty quickly. You can fall asleep without feeling like you’re missing much. You can laugh at half the dialogue. It has pretty colors.
Yeah, that’s pretty much how I felt about three of the five most recent Star Wars films. And is, in fact, how I watched all three of them. I’ve yet to see Solo – and probably never will – but Episode IX may possibly get a screening the next time I’m feeling achey and fatigued.
I think Harley alone justifies its existence, the other decent parts are gravy. And man, that Enchantress dance is… really something.
The original Suicide Squad was kind of an aimless movie.
The squad was pre-assembled for potential Superman-level threats and the actual threat to activate it was a member of the squad.
Meanwhile the Joker is just being a creepy gangster guy, Will Smith and Margot Robbie are still hanging out like they’re on the set of their prior film ‘Focus’, Killer Croc is just a Black stereotype with a skin condition, and the movie can’t commit to anything other than Waller being a hardass that needs three bullets put in her.
The film kills the one member of the Squad to be remorseful for his actions and has Katana, a hero/anti-hero, just kinda standing in the background all the time. They actually set up Katana and her soul consuming sword like it would be important but nothing actually comes from it.
To make things worse, DC’s animated Suicide Squad movies blow the live action one out of the water. Assault on Arkham and Hell to Pay were both solid Suicide Squad films.
This looks so awesome I may go see this in the theater and I have HBO Max and love the service.Having King Shark and Starro in the same movie is so awesome.
to the other (which was sorta-kinda bad)Nothing sorta-kinda about it.
I would suggest not getting killed by her.
Looking forward to seeing this in theaters.
I don’t like this at all. Nathan Fillion’s going to be a jobber ain’t he?
He’s playing Arms Fall Off Man. His chances were slim to say the least.
0:48 that’s the photograph of people at the San Diego Comic-Con dressed up in superhero costumes that was on io9 a few years ago either all the DC Comics characters or all the Marvel Comics characters I don’t remember which I don’t know the difference and I wasn’t paying attention he’s one of the people in the crowd it’s a kill shot all the other scenes of the characters in this are from photographs from public events in the United States of America with foreign agents in the crowd all these people are dead they’ll murder people in the San Diego Comic-Con photograph and from all the other photographs in reply to this
This looks so delightful.Something about the way Joel Kinnaman says “Ratatouille” and “Nanaue” cracks me up. Dude’s probably more fit for comedic roles than as an action star.
He’s great as a second banana. His deadpan is right on for getting laughs amid the chaos.
He was also one of the many reasons Season 1 of Altered Carbon was better than Season 2. I don’t know if he’s a better actor than Mackie, exactly, but he was a much better fit for the material.
Most other films: Someone may die during this story!This film: Someone may live during this story!
I fucking love it.
Don’t like Starro being the villain. The first movie making Enchantress the villain was one of its biggest issues, totally undermining the entire point of the Squad. But Gunn might deliver. I’ll see it at some point.