Harley Quinn has new bad guy allies in The Suicide Squad red band trailer

Idris Elba and Margot Robbie headline an ensemble forged of colourful supervillains recruited for a particular army tactical response group in the red band trailer for The Suicide Squad (embedded under). It’s Director James Gunn’s (Guardians of the Galaxy) standalone follow-up to 2016’s Suicide Squad. It’s really fairly tame as red band trailers go, taking part in up the jokey camaraderie amid all of the explosions, gunfire, and blood spatter. Tonally, Gunn’s movie looks like a cross between Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool—in different phrases, it appears like a number of enjoyable, and it is undoubtedly one thing we’re eager to see when it debuts this summer season.

(Some spoilers for prior DCEU movies under,)

The authentic Suicide Squad came about a 12 months after the demise of Superman in Zack Snyder’s Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Intelligence Officer Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) receives permission to create Task Force X, a tactical response group to fight “metahuman” threats. The group consists solely of criminals and supervillains and is led by Colonel Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman). The authorities crops nanite bombs in their necks to maintain them moderately beneath management, promising to shorten their sentences if their missions are efficiently fulfilled. The all-star forged included Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, and Jared Leto as The Joker. 

Despite such a proficient forged, Suicide Squad opened in August 2016 to largely abysmal critical reviews; it has a 26 p.c Rotten Tomatoes ranking. (Director David Ayer later claimed the studio had interfered to show his “soulful drama” right into a jokier entity after the field workplace success of Deadpool.) Critics dinged the movie for its skinny characters, nonsensical plot, and being simply plain boring, though it did win an Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling—the primary DCEU movie to be so honored. Suicide Squad additionally carried out nicely on the field workplace, grossing 746.eight million globally, towards a $175 million manufacturing funds ($325 million with promoting and promotion prices factored in). So the studio greenlit a sequel and a number of other spinoff initiatives, together with 2020’s Birds of Prey, that includes Robbie’s Harley Quinn.

What adopted was an elaborate sport of developmental musical chairs, as Warner Bros. did their finest to coordinate a number of variations of a script and the busy schedules of Ayer and his numerous actors. When Ayer left the challenge, the studio thought of a number of alternative administrators, lastly deciding on Gavin O’Connor. But then O’Connor departed, purportedly annoyed as a result of the script for Birds of Prey advised a really comparable story to the one he’d imagined for Suicide Squad 2.

Warner Bros. subsequent employed Gunn in October 2018 to write down a contemporary script, and likewise to direct Suicide Squad 2, shortly after Gunn was fired from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in mild of some previous tweets resurfaced and a public backlash. Disney reconsidered and reinstated Gunn quickly after, however the firm agreed to let him end The Suicide Squad first earlier than resuming work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

In its present incarnation, The Suicide Squad is extra of a relaunch than a direct sequel to the 2016 movie; Gunn has stated he needed to take the franchise in a new path and introduce new characters. He drew inspiration from John Ostrander‘s authentic 1980s Suicide Squad comics. (Ostrander has a small position in the ultimate movie.) Gunn has described his R-rated movie as a superhero model of the basic 1967 movie, The Dirty Dozen, choosing characters he described as “loser, B-grade supervillains.” And apparently, the studio is permitting him to kill off certain characters as he sees match, which ought to make for suspenseful viewing. (We’re nonetheless betting Harley Quinn will survive.) Per the official synopsis:

Welcome to hell — a.ok.a. Bell Reve, the jail with the best mortality fee in the US of A. Where the worst supervillains are saved and the place they’ll do something to get out — even be a part of the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die task? Assemble a set of cons, together with Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior]), Savant (Michael Rooker], King Shark (voiced by Sylvester Stallone), Blackguard (Pete Davidson), Javelin (Flula Borg), and everybody’s favourite psycho, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). Then arm them closely and drop them (actually) on the distant, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

Smith was unable to reprise his position as Deadshot, so Gunn wrote the Bloodsport character with Elba particularly in thoughts. Kinnaman and Davis are again as Flag and Waller, respectively, with Steve Agee taking part in John Economos, jail warden and an aide to Waller. Other new forged members embrace Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian), whose trademark polka-dotted go well with is definitely a set of devices; Weasel (Sean Gunn), an anthropomorphic weasel; Sol Soria (Alice Braga); T.D.Ok. (Nathan Fillion); Flo Crawley (Tinashe Kajese); Bloodsport’s daughter Tyla (Storm Reid); and Thinker (Peter Capaldi).

The trailer opens with a plan for Flagg and his group to rescue Harley Quinn, who thwarts it by rescuing herself. The squad members get the identical deal as earlier than: ten years off their sentence in the event that they efficiently full their mission, with a nanite injection that can explode ought to they disobey orders in any means. There are working gags of Davidson’s Blackguard getting issues caught to his shoe and King Shark’s ugly consuming habits (“num-num”), and Capaldi brings his trademark deadpan allure to a scene with Thinker being threatened by Flagg and Harley Quinn. Did I point out the “freakin’ kaiju” that crashes the occasion?

The Suicide Squad debuts in theaters and on HBO Max concurrently on August 6, 2021. Expect to see extra from this refreshed franchise. HBO Max has already ordered a Peacemaker spinoff straight-to-series, with Cena and Agee reprising their roles. That’s slated for a January 2022 launch. What you most likely will not see is the “Ayer minimize” of 2016’s Suicide Squad. HBO Max has said it has no plans to launch it.

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