The Suicide Squad: James Gunn On How It Relates To David Ayer’s Film, And Why It’s Different From Guardians

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The Suicide Squad James Gunn On How It Relates
To David Ayers Film, And Why Its Different From
Guardians
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Back in 2016, the burgeoning DC Extended Universe
followed up superhero jamboree Batman v Superman
Dawn Of Justice with a super-villain (or,
anti-hero-at-best) team-up movie, David Ayers
Suicide Squad uniting a gang of misanthropic
oddballs on a quest they werent all supposed to
survive. But while the film bagged nearly 750
million at the worldwide box office, it didnt
set the world alight for critics, and was
considered a disappointment among many fans.
Fast-forward half a decade later, and the
bad-guys-on-a-suicide-mission comic book project
is getting a brand new lease on life in The
Suicide Squad a not-quite-sequel,
not-quite-reboot from Guardians Of The Galaxy
filmmaker James Gunn.
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But, if its not necessarily a continuation of
Ayers film, but not exactly a reboot either
(there are several returning characters,
including Margot Robbies Harley Quinn, Joel
Kinnamans Rick Flag, Viola Davis Amanda Waller
and Jai Courtneys Captain Boomerang), what
exactly is The Suicide Squad? Um, its its own
thing, Gunn tells Empire in a major world
exclusive interview. It does not contradict the
first movie, I dont think. It might in some
small ways I dont know For all that Ayers
film is not considered a narrative success, Gunn
has plenty of praise for the original Squad his
predecessor assembled, so much so that he brought
plenty of them back. Listen, David Ayers gotten
trouble for the movie, he says. I know it
didnt come out how David wanted it to come out.
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But he did one really, really great thing, and
that is he picked fantastic actors to work with,
and he dealt with these actors in building their
characters in a really deep and fearless way.
Its something David definitely deserves to be
lauded for, and its definitely added to this
movie. With a host of bonkers new players this
time around just look at David Dastmalchians
Polka Dot Man, or the half-human King Shark, or
not-even-half-human Weasel there are hopes that
James Gunn can pull off something special with
The Suicide Squad. He does, after all, have form
in putting together a bunch of A-holes in
tonally-irreverent comic book adaptations
though his Squad is far less trustworthy than the
Guardians.
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Contact Info

• Name James Gunn
• Address St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• James Gunn IMDB
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