Suicide Squad (Official Thread)

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Brandeezy said:
His GF said he's not though unless she's lying
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Could have been lying because he didnt want that out yet.

Parrack is just 34. Maybe they just want a younger Slade cause he's going to be featured in several movies the next 10+ years :yeshrug:
 
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92Inc said:
I heard slade has the best action scenes
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From who?

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Director David Ayer dropped a gift of sorts to fans online last night in the form of a group photo of the assembled cast for Suicide Squad ensemble thriller, which is due from Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. on August 5th, 2016. The photo is from what was apparently a live table read of the screenplay that took place yesterday, and it is apparently the full cast save on obvious omission. There has been a lot of talk about how DC Comics and Warner Bros. is crafting their film universe compared to what Marvel has done, and I have given no small amount of ink to the comparisons between Marvel and the Fast & Furious franchise. While the equivalent of The Avengers will surely be Justice League, DC has a real opportunity to use their Suicide Squad film, which is building up as much excitement, if not more buzz than, Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, as their very own The Fast & Furious-style franchise.

Suicide Squad will be the second of the recently announced slate of DC Comics movies which Warner Bros. will hope will make up an expanded universe-type franchise to rival the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This one will follow Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice which opens March 25th, 2016. The somewhat unconventional title is buffered by appearances by Batman, Lex Luthor, and (in his first appearance in the new DC universe) The Joker, portrayed by Jared Leto. Those pictured are: Joel Kinnaman is team leader Rick Flagg, replacing Tom Hardy, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje will be playing Killer Croc while Jai Courtney will be Boomerang (using his natural accent for once). Viola Davis is of course Dr. Amanda Waller. The newly revealed Adam Beach is allegedly playing Ravan, while Jim Parrack apparently ended up being cast as Deathstroke. Ike Barinholtz is playing Hugo Strange, while Will Smith is starring as Deadshot. Karen Fukuhara is playing Plastique, and that’s Margot Robbie playing what I’d argue is the film’s trump card element Harley Quinn. And finally Cara Delevingne is Enchantress. Not pictured is Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor, Ben Affleck as Batman, and of course Jared Leto as The Joker. It is not hard to see the similarities, or at least the potential for similarities, between a Suicide Squad film and Universal/Comcast Corp.’s ongoing Fast & Furious franchise.

Of the twelve people in the above-noted photo (not including Ayer himself), four of them are female, two of them are non-white women, and three of them are non-white males. That means less than half of the cast is comprised of white men, which is an oddity for any blockbuster franchise, even if of course we don’t know how big every actor’s respective role is going to be. But the potential exists for a genuinely multicultural, racially diverse and gender-balanced franchise that would by default pale to everything but the Fast & Furious films. Moreover, unlike pretty much any other superhero property in the past or the future, Suicide Squad will be focused on anti-heroes if not out-and-out villains. In the ongoing Fast & Furious series, it wasn’t until Furious 6 that all of our protagonists explicitly assumed the roles of so-called “good guys,” which is arguably why the sixth film basically played like an ensemble superhero movie, complete with a would-be Injustice Gang for our heroes to fight. For much of the run, Dom, Brian, Letty, and the gang were outlaws or at least helping outlaws do their thing, with the caveat being that they were usually up against “worse” bad guys.

If the film remotely follows the format of the recent DCAU feature Batman: Assault On Arkham (which was a Suicide Squad movie sold as a Batman adventure), we’ll get something truer to the source material, with out-and-out villains conducting a caper of questionable morality and not being afraid to be villains (IE – killing people) in the process. While I’m not going to speculate on the narrative (aside from hoping that the film doesn’t end up being a backdoor pilot for a stand-alone Batman movie), the ingredients are all there, from a marketing perspective at least, for a film that plays out like a Fast & Furious style crime/anti-hero caper within the DC Universe. It’s uncommonly diverse, it stars antiheroes or out-and-out villains, and it has the potential to be a somewhat real world action thriller, with real stunts and practical fight scenes with periodic doses of superpowers. The irony of course is that the Furious franchise has kept so many of their primary villains alive that they could very-well do a “Suicide Squad” or even “Sinister Six” style adventure sometime down the road.

All of this is somewhat speculative, but it bears mention. With a (comparative) deluge of superhero movies coming down the pike in the next few years, branding will be almost as important as quality and fan anticipation. Marvel has been pretty strong thus far in aligning their stand-alone franchises with specific genres, and it’s something I hope they continue into phase three. If Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice is basically going to be a backdoor pilot for Justice League and Wonder Woman is going to be “the female superhero film you’ve been waiting for,” then Suicide Squad has a chance to stand out from the pack by standing out from the pack. And the way to do that is, I would argue, by embracing its relative similarities to the other biggest ongoing franchise in town right now. Justice League will be compared to The Avengers while Wonder Woman will be (lazily and foolishly) compared to The Hunger Games. But Suicide Squad has a real opportunity to strike gold by presenting itself as a variation on the later Fast and the Furious ensemble entries with a nastier (R-rated?) twist. Whether or not that’s how the movie plays itself out, that’s certainly how it should be marketed.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...ast-and-furious-of-the-dc-cinematic-universe/
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this is one of the reasons f&f does numbers like it does: the diversified cast...it widens the net for the audience....and this is one way dc is beating marvel that I don't think people really notice.....so far, most of marvel's heroes in the movies have been white males....the min dc announced ww, the rock as black adam, cyborg, the non white aquaman, non white flash, etc., marvel changed they shyt up quick and announced bp, female cap marvel, etc....which is great....

anyway, I cant wait for this movie...and if slade is the one they gotta stop, oh my damn, i'm love this even more...the only thing i'm worried about is if they try to force this to be a pg-13 movie...if they do, that means they gonna gimp some characters, which would suck.....I know that's what most studios want, but ss shouldn't be pg-13....
 
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lutha said:
this is why of the reasons f&f does numbers like it does: the diversified cast...it widens the net for the audience....and this is one way dc is beating marvel that I don't think people really notice.....so far, most of marvel's heroes in the movies have been white males....the min dc announced ww, the rock as black adam, cyborg, the non white aquaman, non white flash, etc., marvel changed they shyt up quick and announced bp, female cap marvel, etc....which is great....

anyway, I cant wait for this movie...and if slade is the one they gotta stop, oh my damn, i'm love this even more...the only thing i'm worried about is if they try to force this to be a pg-13 movie...if they do, that means they gonna gimp some characters, which would suck.....I know that's what most studios want, but ss shouldn't be pg-13....
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Its David Ayer breh. If you know anything about him its not going to be PG 13.:salute:
Thats the least of my concerns
 
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A couple of weeks ago, Latino Review reported that Scott Eastwood would play Steve Trevor in Suicide Squad, but now Variety says that story isn’t true. Yesterday news broke that director Michelle MacLaren dropped out ofWonder Woman, and Variety says the male lead of Steve Trevor has yet to be cast.

Sources tell Variety that test offers were set to go out to four actors for one of the male leads films on Monday. It had been rumored that the role Scott Eastwood had nabbed for “Suicide Squad” was Steve Trevor, the love interest of Wonder Woman, but sources now say that is not true and that the four actors testing would be for the role of Trevor.

Scott Eastwood has confirmed that he’s in Suicide Squad, but it looks like he isn’t playing Steve Trevor. Who do you think he’ll be? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
http://batman-news.com/2015/04/14/variety-scott-eastwood-isnt-playing-steve-trevor-in-suicide-squad/
 
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