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Gavin O’Connor To Direct ‘Suicide Squad 2’

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and DC have chosen Gavin O’Connor to direct Suicide Squad 2, the sequel to the hit that will bring back Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Letoand the rest of the gang of villains. The decision was made today. O’Connor most recently directed the hit The Accountant for the studio, and he is working on a sequel with Ben Affleck.


Pending the final signing of the deal, this ends a lengthy search by the studio to replace David Ayer, who wrote and directed the original but moved aside to focus on Gotham City Sirens, one of the DC spinoff movies built around Robbie’s Harley Quinn character. O’Connor was mentioned on a short list that the studio was deciding between. Warner Bros has eyed strong action directors like Mel Gibson and then had its sights set on Jaume Collet-Serra, who became unavailable when he agreed to direct Dwayne Johnson in the Disney film Jungle Cruise.

This is a big job, directing the next installment of the 2016 Warner Bros DC film that grossed $745 million worldwide. The first film was about a group of incorrigible jailbirds with special skills who were conscripted to fight terrible villains with the idea the heroes were expendable. The first film wasn’t a favorite of the fanboy crowd, but it was a big global financial hit for the studio that left no doubt of future installments.

O’Connor has mixed emotion and muscular action in films that include Warrior, the underrated film that starred Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton and Nick Nolte, as well as Pride And Glory, Miracle and his breakout indie Tumbleweeds.

Warner Bros has been moving quickly to diversify its cinematic universe. The studio set its The Hangover director Todd Phillips to direct Scott Silver’s script for a spinoff on the Batman villain The Joker, and then set John Requa and Glenn Ficarra to direct a separate spinoff for Leto’s Joker character and his demented lover Harley Quinn.

O’Connor is repped by WME and Morris Yorn Barnes.
 

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I'm just getting annoyed when WB keeps announcing a new director or new a new film. We still don't have a director for The Flash, The Batman is up in the air right now, we don't have a Shazam actor but The Rock is supposed to play Black Adam and now there's talk he won't even appear in the Shazam movie. They keep announcing all these new projects but haven't some of the previous projects straightened out.
 

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I'm just getting annoyed when WB keeps announcing a new director or new a new film. We still don't have a director for The Flash, The Batman is up in the air right now, we don't have a Shazam actor but The Rock is supposed to play Black Adam and now there's talk he won't even appear in the Shazam movie. They keep announcing all these new projects but haven't some of the previous projects straightened out.
:manny: Geoff johns yall
 

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Can they ditch the Hot Topic/gangster aesthetic Ayer went with or are they stuck with it? :hhh:
I hope they do and actually make these guys actual villains. They kept advertising them as the worst of the worst but were they really bad? Deadshot was an assassin but the movie pretty much portrayed him as just a father trying to get out. Harley was just a crazy, El Diablo was just a gang member who wanted to be left alone, Croc was just a freak. The only member that was really a POS was Boomerrang and the worst thing he did was abandon his partner before The Flash caught him.
 

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I hope they do and actually make these guys actual villains. They kept advertising them as the worst of the worst but were they really bad? Deadshot was an assassin but the movie pretty much portrayed him as just a father trying to get out. Harley was just a crazy, El Diablo was just a gang member who wanted to be left alone, Croc was just a freak. The only member that was really a POS was Boomerrang and the worst thing he did was abandon his partner before The Flash caught him.
Allegedly they cut out a lot of stuff that made the film darker. Like joker smacking up Harley and boomerang being a scumbag etc.
 

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I hope they do and actually make these guys actual villains. They kept advertising them as the worst of the worst but were they really bad? Deadshot was an assassin but the movie pretty much portrayed him as just a father trying to get out. Harley was just a crazy, El Diablo was just a gang member who wanted to be left alone, Croc was just a freak. The only member that was really a POS was Boomerrang and the worst thing he did was abandon his partner before The Flash caught him.
This was my biggest complaint with the movie they kept telling us they were bad but when it came time to show us they didn't. Movie should be rated R tbh considering the source material.
 

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His best movie is warrior imo but the accountant showed some good action which suicide squad didnt have besides one scene so fingers crossed i guess. Just wanna finally be blown away by a DC flick
 
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