James Gunn Was Allowed to Do Whatever He Wanted With ‘The Suicide Squad’ Characters
By George Robbins
There are plenty of movies that are in the works at the moment that we have heard about within recent months that are stills a ways off from release. There is nothing much that we can really do about that fact because the pandemic just inherently makes things difficult for us to do anything at all. We can still find excitement in the fact that once there is some kind of vaccine and things can start going back to how they were, we will have a ton of new content available to us. At least now we have the opportunity to just start making a list that is getting longer and longer by the day in regards to the new content that we will have going into next year. Despite everything that is going on, there is always something to look forward to on the horizon.
Movie studios have been working hard to try and establish their timelines for upcoming projects, and for the most part, they have been pretty open about everything. This stems from the fact that the pandemic has made things quite complicated and we are not entirely sure of what the true dates and time windows are going to be. For instance, we don’t know exactly how long it will take to finish a lot of upcoming films, but we know that many of them have been delayed even further for some reason or another. This is because, other than the initial delay that we have seen due to the pandemic shutting down productions, there have been other delays related to the pandemic and other issues. One of the biggest reasons for many delays has been the fact that members of some crews have tested positive.
One recent production that was forced to shut down recently was the ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ production which was unfortunate considering how close they were to finishing. Even if there are delays though, it won’t really affect the productions all that much because these things are now being accounted for. There are already enough delays that it really doesn’t matter if anymore end up being tacked on because we are not even sure of when this pandemic will end. Without some kind of ending in sight, we don’t know just how long it will be before movies will have the opportunity to play in theaters again. With the failure of movie theaters over the past couple of months, studios have been deciding to postpone their theatrical releases for a long time.
Many films have had their release dates pushed back for upwards of months to even over a year and a half at this point in time. They have really only been doing this as an effort to create a timeframe where they could release their films if things work out for this pandemic. That being said, there is a lot going on at the moment and it will be awhile before we see any definitive dates come out in reference to new movie releases. Things are going much better on the digital side of things though as release dates are really just more of a formality on that front. Therefore, the digital side of movie releases is becoming more and more serious as time goes on and we will be seeing movies having to decide between what is a better launch platform.
Studios such as Disney are now putting more of an effort into their streaming platform and they will now be deciding on which films to release where. At least for the foreseeable future, during this pandemic, this is how things will be playing out and some of the smaller film titles will be available to the public much sooner than bigger titles. With some releases taking place on the digital platforms, it frees up space and creates less competition for release windows when things start to calm down a bit. This creates a better situation for everyone and makes it possible for studios to get things working as soon as possible. There are plenty of dates currently set for movies releases, but none of them are set in stone; hopefully now, there will be some wiggle room with the freed up space.
One studio that has been working hard to get their dates set up properly has been Warner Bros. who have been trying to make the best out of the hand they were dealt. They set the stage for everything we are seeing now after they had a bad release with their movie ‘Tenet’ where they haven’t made back the money they were hoping for. That doesn’t mean that the movie has been an absolute failure as it is still making some kind of money, just nowhere near as much as it would if there wasn’t a pandemic. Due to this, studios took this as a sign of something bad in the movie theater industry, and thus, the mass exodus of films took place from this year’s line-up. This was probably for the best in the long run as they all would have lost a lot of money with their film releases, so now the industry has been set on a new path.
Warner Bros. followed suit with the other companies and they decided to make things easier on themselves by also pushing back their other releases. Some of those releases were unfortunately pushed back far further than some originally thought they would be and now dates for release are scattered across a couple of years. Movies we were expecting to see this upcoming year have now been lost to 2022 because release dates had to be moved around. This isn’t inherently bad as it makes it so that there is plenty of time to make sure that the films turn out better, but it can be annoying for fans who have been waiting. Even though some films have been moved around due to this, there are others which have managed to maintain their original release dates.
On the list of films that have managed to do this is the movie ‘The Suicide Squad‘ which is still set to release in August of 2021. Even though this date is still obviously subject to change, there is still plenty of hype building for the film since we got some information about it from DC FanDome. Many fans have been skeptical about the movie’s release ever since they first heard about the spiritual sequel, but those thoughts are now moot. The film has many fans now excited which is a double-edged sword of sorts because now that they are excited, they will be expecting something spectacular from the film. The James Gunn directed film has already received a lot of coverage and Gunn has made it known that he has been in complete creative control, so hopes are high that the movie will end up delivering the experience fans are hoping for.
Gunn has already made it known to the public that he was given the opportunity to use whatever characters he wanted for the film, regardless of who they were. Hence, we have already seen that he has pulled out numerous characters that people don’t really know about and managed to make an interesting film about them. On top of this, we have just learned from Gunn that he also has complete control of what happens to said characters and DC doesn’t really have a say in the matter. He has said that whatever happens to those characters, DC cannot protect them and he was given carte blanche to do what he wanted for the sake of the film. That has made the upcoming anti-hero film even more exciting and it is no surprise that people can’t wait for the release.