The Suicide Squad is out in three weeks on HBO Max, and in cinemas the world over (not in India although), and Warner Bros. has unveiled a brand new four-minute featurette that tells us somewhat extra about its enormous ensemble solid of supervillains. As director-writer James Gunn notes, they’re “going to introduce more DC characters than any film has ever done.” And whereas we have been informed that almost all of them won’t survive the tip of The Suicide Squad, star David Dastmalchian notes characters “considered throwaway or worthless are very worthwhile and have incredible meaning and value” right here. Joel Kinnaman guarantees emotional depth, with Gunn noting that there might be quieter character moments.
Leading the road is Idris Elba who calls his Bloodsport character “quite a grumpy guy”. Gunn provides: He simply has “barely enough humanity to say, ‘Uh, alright I’ll go fight’.” Whereas Peacemaker (John Cena) enjoys the battle as The Suicide Squad featurette exhibits. “Nothing like a bloodbath to start the day,” Peacemaker says. Cena calls him a “douchey bro but a patriot at the same time.” Margot Robbie is again as Harley Quinn — one of many few returning characters — and she or he’s a “catalyst of chaos” right here. As for the look, Gunn needed to see the Harley he loves from the comics and the animated present.
King Shark is Kinnaman’s favorite character, as he’s everybody else’s since we first noticed him in The Suicide Squad trailer. “It’s really stupid but also really kind,” Kinnaman, who return as a kinder tackle Rick Flag, provides. Dastmalchian is enjoying Polka-Dot Man, a “product of an experiment gone wrong”, whereas Daniela Melchior’s Ratcatcher 2 can management and speak with rats, whom Gunn has beforehand described because the “heart of the film”. Then we now have Mayling Ng as Mongal who has super-strength and super-speed. There’s additionally the returning Captain Boomerang, with Jai Courtney describing him like the primary dude you wish to have a drink with, however the final one you wish to be left in a bar with.
Michael Rooker strikes with Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy to The Suicide Squad as Savant, whom Gunn calls a distinctive-looking chap, very quiet, and really highly effective. Additionally, we now have Nathan Fillion as TDK, whose solely superpower is that his legs and arms come off, Gunn notes. Fillion says TDK will not be formidable, simply annoying. That leaves Javelin, with actor Flula Borg joking: “If you imagine the most sexy man or woman or animal or goose, and then give this person or animal blonde hair, and a very large toothpick, you’d have Javelin.”
In addition to Dastmalchian, Kinnaman, Elba, Cena, Robbie, Melchior, Ng, Courtney, Rooker, Fillion, and Borg, The Suicide Squad additionally stars Sylvester Stallone because the voice of King Shark, Viola Davis returning as Task Force X director Amanda Waller, Peter Capaldi as The Thinker, Pete Davidson as Blackguard with out the lengthy purple ponytail from DC Comics, and Sean Gunn as Weasel. The Suicide Squad finds Task Force X on a fictional South American island, the place they may go up in opposition to native troublemakers and the tentacled supervillain Starro, as was revealed in the ultimate trailer.
The Suicide Squad is out August 6 on HBO Max and in cinemas worldwide. An India launch date is unclear, as Warner Bros. will solely launch the movie in cinemas, most of that are shut nationwide.
