While Warner Bros. debuted an abundance of first look footage from James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” last summer during the DC FanDome event, today comes the long-awaited premiere of the first official “Suicide Squad” trailer. The film is a standalone sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 DC Extended Universe entry “Suicide Squad.”
Suicide Squad 2 release date: When is The Suicide Squad out?
“The Suicide Squad,” like all of Warner Bros.’ 2021 titles, will debut day and date in whatever theaters are open later this summer and on HBO Max for 31 days. The release date is currently set for August 6, 2021. Director James Gunn has long billed the film as a gritty, 1970s war movie with comedic sensibilities.
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In a surprise move that has rocked Hollywood, the studio has also announced that all of its planned 2021 releases will be released in cinemas and on HBO Max on the same day, so The Suicide Squad will be available to watch on August 6, 2021 on HBO Max too.
The streaming service is currently only available in the US, so this doesn't apply to its international release. We can just hope that cinemas will be fully open in the UK come August, otherwise we can expect a delay.
We'll have to wait and see if his sequel is more adult-orientated than the original which landed a rather tame PG-13 rating, but Gunn isn't saying what the rating will be just yet.
The 2016 “Suicide Squad” was memorable for introducing Margot Robbie’s fan-favorite turn as Harley Quinn, who later got her own spinoff with last year’s “Birds of Prey.” While Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” was a box-office blockbuster that earned more than $740 million worldwide, the film was torched by critics across the board and turned out to be one of the worst-reviewed films of 2016.
While Gunn is bringing back some of the same characters from Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” (Robbie’s Harley, Jai Courtney’s Boomerang, Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller, and Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag), he’s gone back to the drawing board in terms of the story. He’s also mixing in some new cast members, including Idris Elba (as Robert DuBois, aka Bloodsport), Nathan Fillon (as Floyd Belkin, aka TDK), John Cena (as Christopher Smith/Peacemaker), Alice Braga (as Sol Soria), Pete Davidson (as Richard Hertz, aka Blackguard), and many more.
The plot is centered around the imprisoned convicts from Task Force X as they are sent on a new mission to the South American island of Corto Maltese to destroy Jotunheim, a Nazi-era prison and laboratory that held political prisoners and conducted experiments.
Gunn’s journey to “The Suicide Squad” took some unusual turns. While in the middle of developing his third “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie, Marvel parent company Disney cut ties with the filmmaker over controversial remarks he’d made on Twitter in the past. This stirred backlash from the cast, many of whom campaigned on social media to have Gunn rehired. Disney later agreed to bring him back on board for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” but in the meantime he struck a deal with Warner Bros. to helm his passion project, “The Suicide Squad.” Gunn also wrote the supervillain epic.
Watch the official trailer for “The Suicide Squad” in the video below.
Suicide Squad 2 cast: Who's in The Suicide Squad cast?
Gunn revealed the stellar cast for The Suicide Squad in September 2019, including the returning Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis as Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Rick Flag and Amanda Waller respectively.
The rest was announced on August 2020. Here's the cast list in, well, list form:
- Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag
- Viola Davis as Amanda Waller
- Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang
- Idris Elba as Bloodsport
- John Cena as Peacemaker
- Peter Capaldi as The Thinker
- Flula Borg as Javelin
- Daniela Melchior as Ratcatcher 2
- Michael Rooker as Savant
- David Dastmalchian as Polka-Dot Man
- Mayling Ng as Mongal
- Nathan Fillion as TDK
- Alica Braga as Sol Soria
- Pete Davidson as Blackguard
- Sean Gunn as Weasel
- Joaquín Cosío as Major General Mateo Suarez
- Juan Diego Botto as President General Silvio Luna
- Storm Reid as Tyla, Bloodsport's daughter
- Steve Agee as John Economos
- Tinashe Kajese as Flo Crawley
- Jennifer Holland as Emilia Harcourt
We still don't know who Taika Waititi will be playing in the movie, but it's been confirmed that Sylvester Stallone is voicing King Shark, who is sure to be a fan favourite.
Gunn confirmed the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 reunion in November 2020 when he revealed Stallone has a role in The Suicide Squad.
"Working with this incredible director on this astounding project has made this an amazing year. I am a very lucky man to be surrounded by such talent!" enthused Stallone.
Storm Reid didn't reveal too much about her character, but teased that she's a "little spicy" and added: "I feel like it's something I can tap into because she's just a little sassy and has a little bit of swag, so I feel like she kind of related to me a little bit."
Reid was also full of praise for the "incredible" Idris Elba, so we can't wait to see what he's brought to the movie.
Gunn revealed that Dogwelder was considered for the movie, but given the character's concept (he welds dogs to people's faces), Gunn said it wasn't a character "I'd personally want to see expressed cinematically".
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