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- Action, Adventure, Comedy
- James Gunn
- 2021-08-05
Intelligence officer Amanda Waller assembles two separate Task Force X teams, colloquially known as the "Suicide Squad", which consists of Belle Reve penitentiary inmates who agree to carry out a mission in exchange for shortened sentences.
- $168.7 million
- John Murphy
- $185 million
Aug 6, 2021 · Many will see James Gunn ’s “The Suicide Squad” as a funhouse mirror inversion of the writer/director’s work with “ Guardians of the Galaxy .”. After all, it’s another collection of underdog heroes who overcome all odds to defeat an interstellar enemy.
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By Tom Power
published 13 July 2021
The Suicide Squad is teaming up for another dangerous mission
(Image credit: Warner Bros.)
The Suicide Squad is preparing to undertake another life or death mission in Warner Bros’ DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Yep, Harley Quinn, Rick Flag and company are ready to wage war under the command of Amanda Waller – albeit against their will.
The Suicide Squad will release simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max on Friday, August 5. It was originally supposed to arrive on August 6, but the date was moved up 24 hours to coincide with James Gunn's birthday.
However, this date only applies to US audiences, as viewers in some territories will be able to see it earlier.
It’s also worth bearing in mind that The Suicide Squad will only be available on HBO Max for 31 days – and only subscribers at the ad-free $14.99 monthly tier will be able to stream it. It’ll leave the service after September 6 so, if you choose to watch it at home instead of on the big screen, ensure you do so within a month of its launch.
UK film fans will be able to catch it in cinemas a week earlier from Friday, July 30 as HBO Max isn’t currently available on British shores.
We also know what the movie's runtime is now, too. Taking to Twitter (as he regularly does to interact with his fanbase), Gunn revealed that The Suicide Squad would be two hours and 12 minutes long.
2 hours and 12 minutes. #TheSuicideSquad That was a very inaccurate dream. https://t.co/vsW5NfW1rxJune 16, 2021
With The Suicide Squad set to be released very soon, Warner Bros. is ramping up marketing for its R-rated supervillain flick.
A new trailer for the movie landed online on Tuesday, June 22 and provided a more in-depth look at some of the characters, action and humor that will be on show when The Suicide Squad is released.
The first trailer for James Gunn’s Suicide Squad arrived on March 26 – and it was worth the wait.
Looking (and feeling) like an R-rated version of another James Gunn movie series in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad will be full of foul language, violence, sexual references and character deaths (more on these later).
It’s Warner Bros’ most mature superhero movie yet and, if the online reaction to the trailer is to be believed, audiences are ready for more of these kinds of adult-skewing DCEU projects.
You can watch the red band trailer here, or check out the 'Rebellion' trailer below:
We aren’t messing around when we say that The Suicide Squad’s cast is absolutely stacked. There are plenty of big names in this movie, and we’re hoping that they’ll get the screen time necessary to showcase their undoubted talents:
•Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn
•Idris Elba as Bloodsport
•John Cena as Peacemaker
•Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag
•Sylvester Stallone as King Shark (voice; Steve Agee portrays King Shark on screen)
It’s complicated. Back in April 2019, The Suicide Squad producer Peter Safran told ComicBook.com that The Suicide Squad wasn’t a continuation of the 2016 film.
Fast-forward to an October 2020 Empire piece, however, and Gunn revealed that The Suicide Squad is “its own thing” – not quite a sequel, but not exactly a reboot.
The return of Robbie, Courtney, Kinnaman and Davis (in their respective roles) for The Suicide Squad muddies the water further, too. If this quartet are reprising their characters from David Ayer’s 2016 flick, shouldn’t Gunn’s movie be labeled a sequel?
In that respect, it should be – but, as Gunn explained via Twitter, you don’t have to watch 2016’s Suicide Squad in order to follow The Suicide Squad’s events, so it can’t be a straight sequel.
No, you will be just fine. https://t.co/D7agq9xv2QJanuary 27, 2021
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Given the above information, one thing we don’t expect to see (or hear) is callbacks to David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. If we don’t have to watch that flick to understand The Suicide Squad, we don’t think there’ll be many overt references to the 2016 installment.
With that out of the way, here’s The Suicide Squad’s official synopsis (per the movie’s official website):
“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… then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teaming with militant adversaries and guerilla 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 team mate, or Waller herself). If anyone’s laying down bets, the smart money is against them – all of them.”
With so many characters in The Suicide Squad, it’s inevitable that most of them will be bumped off.
Yes. A Peacemaker TV series is currently in development for HBO Max. Cena will reprise his role for the show, which will explore the character’s origins. Gunn has written the eight-episode series and will direct several of them.
Other cast members include Steve Agee as John Economos (the same role he’ll play in The Suicide Squad), Danielle Brooks (Orange is the New Black) as Leota Adebeyo, Robert Patrick (Terminator 2) as Auggie Smith and Freddit Stroma (Harry Potter) as Adrian Chase/The Vigilante.
Filming is set to end on June 9 ahead of the series premiering on HBO Max in January 2022.
Peacemaker may not be the only spin-off that Gunn develops, though. Responding to a fan on Twitter in January, Gunn said that he’d be interested in pursuing other projects around The Suicide Squad’s lineup, but declined to say who exactly.
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We suspect so. The Suicide Squad is basically an R-rated Guardians of the Galaxy and, given how popular that Marvel series is, it’s highly likely that Gunn and Warner Bros. are onto a winner with this DCEU movie.
There’s clearly an audience for R-rated DC movies. The movie’s first red band trailer received over 150 million views on YouTube one week after release, which broke the record set by another mature Warner Bros. film in Mortal Kombat.
If that’s any indication, plenty of people are excited to take in a funny, action-packed R-rated DCEU movie with an all-star cast, and with a proven big name writer-director behind it. We certainly are, too, so we wouldn’t be surprised if The Suicide Squad becomes a major hit as the box office recovers from the pandemic – even with its simultaneous HBO Max release.
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