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“Two years ago ¬Suicide Squad was a tertiary [DC property]. No one knew anything about it. It was a cool little playground, and I was going to go make my movie,” these were the words of director David Ayer has he was talking to Entertainment Weekly for their huge Suicide Squad issue.
As we’re under four weeks away from “The Sickest Superhero Movie Ever” to hit cinemas in the UK and around the world.
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Ayer goes on to say “Now it’s like the hype bus. All of the attention has swung onto it, and it has to carry a lot more weight than it was ever intended to. I think it can sustain it. But it’s a lot of pressure. You definitely feel the pressure.”
This pressure is due to the failure (in the eyes of Warner Bros, box office and critics/fans alike) of Batman v Superman and now a lot is hanging on Suicide Squad to not only be a success but also to be a good film.
The buzz around Suicide Squad continued to grow mainly thanks to the bright, colourful, rock ’n’ roll trailers and marketing company, which is the second best marketing campaign after Deadpool.
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Entertainment Weekly also gave us a more detailed look into the plot of the film and it does indeed take place after the events of Batman v Superman and we finally know what The Joker will be up too and no he’s not the film's big bad.
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“Suicide Squad (out Aug. 5) takes place in a post-Superman world, following the events of Dawn of Justice, as the government grapples with how to respond the next time an alien visits Earth with less noble intentions than the Man of Steel. The answer, according to ruthless intelligence officer Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), is to recruit society’s most vile criminals, armed with lethal skills and superhuman powers. Her first target is possessed archaeologist June Moone/Enchantress (Cara Delevingne).
Waller’s program doesn’t get a green light, though, until Midway City is threatened by a powerful mystical enemy, and Waller needs to activate the whole squad of prisoners. The baddies get a break. Deadshot (Will Smith) has his Second Amendment rights ¬reinstated, Harley (Margot Robbie) is carefully excised from her birdcage, Diablo (Jay ¬Hernandez) is released from his own fireproof fortress of solitude, Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and Slipknot (Adam Beach) strap their weapons back on, and Killer Croc ¬(Adewale Akinnuoye-¬Agbaje) is popped from his swamp. The one condition for their restricted freedom: Obey orders or die, a rule strictly enforced by squad leader Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), his samurai Katana (Karen Fukuhara), and the explosive devices inserted into their necks courtesy of Wayne Enterprises. (Thanks, Batman!) Throwing a wrench into all these plans is the tatted Gotham City arch-criminal, the Joker (Jared Leto), and his laser-like plan to reunite with his true love, Harley, mission be damned.
But a funny thing happens while these scumbags try to become heroes – they each must absolve themselves of their crimes even if society won’t. And that’s where it gets interesting. A layer of humanity – and sadness – resides underneath these characters’ stories as they each grapple with whether they can be redeemed.”
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This plot has got me even more excited to what’s to come. I love that we still have no idea what/who this “powerful mystical enemy” is and that Bruce Wayne made these explosives probably when he was at his most dark and violent after the events in Man of Steel.
Also, that The Joker is going to do anything to be back with his girl even if that means fucking up the mission and also I predict we’re going to see a lot of funny, dark, creepy and maybe touching moments between Harley and her puddin.
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EW also caught up with the cast and talked to Ayer about how this film came about in the first place.
“The core of this business is the [comic book] genre and the summer movie tentpole movie, to really guarantee longevity and viability as a director, it seemed like something I needed on my passport.”
After meeting with Greg Silverman (Warner Bros Director of Creative Development and Worldwide Production), Ayer fell in love with the Suicide Squad characters and it also helped Silverman was a big fan of Ayer’s Training Day and felt he was perfect to write and direct a film about bad guys.
Then in August, WB approved Ayer’s pitch of the film, and by September, the script was completed and then they assembled their Task Force X.
Will Smith said to play a character like Deadshot was too good to miss “I had never played a character that legitimately didn’t give a f***,” adding “it’s very freeing.”
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It took Margot Robbie just 20 minutes to get the role of Harley Quinn via a Skype chat with Ayer “It was a dream,” Robbie said. “Rarely do you get a role that’s so insane and complicated.”
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Now we get to Jared Leto’s Joker “As an actor, he’s flinging himself into the abyss on that one,” Ayer revealed. “And he was scary on set. He was intimidating. He’d show up on set and it was like ‘Dude, you are fucking creepy.’”
Before they started their 97-day shoot in Toronto, Ayer put his cast through mental and physical boot camps, which included the squad actually fighting each other, but this new article goes more in-depth into the crazy preparations he went too.
These included group therapy sessions with each actor and get them to tell their deepest, darkest secrets, but they didn’t stay secrets for long because Ayer would use it against them during filming.
Joel Kinnaman, who plays Rick Flag, gave an insight into these therapy sessions “David would ask questions where you would reveal your biggest vulnerabilities and the stuff you are ashamed of.
“He stored it all in his database, so at the right moment, he would completely betray you” added Kinnaman.
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The Killing star then went on to give an example where it involved Viola Davis, who plays Amanda Waller, calling him profane names.
“Some of the stuff she said really pissed me off, and that’s exactly what he wanted me to feel,” Kinnaman explained. “And now it’s in the movie. That’s some pretty high-level direction through manipulation.”
Ayer defends his methods of directing telling EW “It’s all about ‘How do you keep the set fresh, keep it alive? You throw these grenades at the actors, and boom, it’s the money take” he said.
Despite the mental and physical stress, these actors went through, it seemed to have worked as you can see this experience has clearly bonded them and said they would jump at the chance to work with Ayer on Suicide Squad 2.
The Training Day and Fury director talked about the freedom Warner Bros gave him adding “The movie is pretty insane, and they gave me a lot of rope, I marvel at some of the things I’ve gotten away with” he concluded.
Suicide Squad hits UK cinemas August 5th.
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