We Now Know Who is Going to be in ‘The Suicide Squad’ and Who They Will Play
By George Robbins
This past weekend was a big weekend for DC fans and overall, a big weekend for comic book fans in general. DC FanDome took place for the first time ever and it was considered a success given the amount of information fans ended up receiving over the weekend. Many different DC properties received the limelight and it gave fans a chance to find out just what would be coming up for the DCEU in the not too distant future. Among the titles that had information given on them was ‘The Suicide Squad’ which is James Gunn’s “spiritual reboot” to the first ‘Suicide Squad‘ movie. Gunn revealed during the online only event just how much work was put into the new film and some other info was discovered as well.
The original ‘Suicide Squad’ movie has been receiving a lot of attention as of late because director David Ayer has been very vocal about the changes that were made to it. According to Ayer, the studio made them do reshoots for the movie that Ayer and the general public believe ruined the film. They were trying to compete with the recently released ‘Deadpool’ and by adding in a more comedic tone to the movie, they ruined the overall tone of the film. This was sparked for conversation after it was revealed that Zack Snyder would be releasing a director’s cut for ‘Justice League’ that would premiere next year. Due to this Ayer made himself very vocal to try and get fans to side with him so he could do the same thing.
Although there has been no word on Ayer getting the opportunity to put his director’s cut together, Gunn made many more details about his film known. For one thing, we already know from a previous message on social media that the reason for why the name of the new film is ‘The Suicide Squad’ is because he made a joke about the title and an executive said that it would be a good title. DC scooped up Gunn after he was momentarily let go by Disney before he could start working on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. He has since put together an ensemble cast of sorts, but other than Idris Elba and John Cena, no one knew who was in the film or what parts the two actors would play. This past weekend we found out just who would be in the film and what roles they would play.
- Idris Elba as Bloodsport
- John Cena as Peacemaker
- David Dastmalchian as Polka-Dot Man
- Daniela Melchior as Ratcatcher 2
- Steve Agee as King Shark
- Nathan Fillion as TDK
- Mayling Ng as Mongal
- Flula Borg as Javelin
- Sean Gunn as Weasel
- Michael Rooker as Savant
- Pete Davidson as Blackguard
- Peter Capaldi as The Thinker
- Alice Braga as Sol Soria
- Storm Reid as Tyla, Bloodsport’s daughter
- Juan Diego Botto as General Luna
- Joaquín Cosío as Major General Suarez
This ensemble cast was more than we ever would have expected to see and it shows off character that most people wouldn’t even really know much about. The cast was shown off during this past weekend and we now have a way of putting faces to names and characters as a whole. Many people have been worried that the movie would end up being just as much of a disappointment as ‘Suicide Squad’ was. Gunn has already said over social media that he is going to be releasing his own version of the film to theaters and that there was no studio interference. With the list of actors now known and Gunn saying that he is launching his own, unhampered version of the film, we can be a bit more hopeful for the release of the film in August of 2021.