The film has begun casting and earlier this week,
Collider reported that the new Suicide Squad team will feature Polka-Dot Man, Peacemaker (Gunn is eyeing to hire Dave Bautista for the role), King Shark and a gender-swapped female Ratcatcher. As for Viola Davis and Joel Kinnaman, this is where things get complicated as I’ve had sources say that one is in the film or that one is not in the film or that their character is in the film but will be recast like Will Smith, so there’s nothing definitive regarding them currently and we probably won’t get anything definitive on them for a little while. As for the team, Collider’s report of the new Suicide Squad team is accurate however
I was also told a rumor that Killer Frost will be apart of the Suicide Squad in the film. As for other members, there could be other members but I’m unsure if there will be, I was told that Deathstroke was in the Gavin O Connor version of ‘Suicide Squad 2’ but he’s most likely no longer in the film.
As for the story, I have been told a rumor that the current draft of James Gunn’s ‘The Suicide Squad’ may follow the team on a mission to the Middle East to stop Onslaught and infiltrate their headquarters in Qurac. This seems like a fitting type of story for the ‘Suicide Squad’ that will keep the stakes lower compared to the first film.