James Gunn looks to have made a DC movie born from a Marvel heart as we bring you The Suicide Squad trailer review.
The highly anticipated trailer for The Suicide Squad has dropped today, a standalone sequel to David Ayer’s absolutely disaster of a film back in 2016.
The movie will debut on August 6th for a cinematic and HBO release.
Director James Gunn who created The Guardians of the Galaxy has labelled the film as a gritty 1970’s war flick with comedic values.
With GOTG providing such endearing humour that made us care about each individual characters it was hard to fathom that this approach could be taken with DC characters.
Words such as dark, dull, one dimensional, gothic, depressing and boring have been utilised in many a DC film review but I have absolute confidence that James Gunn has just changed the game with this one.
With Margot Robbie returning as Harley Quinn already in her brief trailer appearance I’m already more invested in her character than I was in the entirety of Birds of Prey which played out like one long overdrawn gender catering break-up movie.
Peacemaker is also a character I can see myself growing to love as John Cena himself called him a ‘douchey Captain America’ and it’s not too long into the trailer before you absolutely resonate with that accurate description.
The plot is centred around the imprisoned convicts from Task Force X who are set off on a mission to Corto Maltese to destroy a prison and laboratory that held political prisoners and conducted various experiments.
James Gunn had a bit of a bumpy time with Marvel as after remarks made on Twitter Disney cut ties with the filmmaker before asking him back to work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3.
In the meantime, though however Gunn spoke to Warner Brothers and signed a deal to bring his vision of The Suicide Squad to life.
He also wrote the script.
The trailer featured below is vibrant which even feels weird typing considering we’re talking about a DC movie here and you can tell that each character hasn’t been blended together into some Justice League emo soup, they have their own personalities, opinions, thoughts and effect on us as viewers.
Instantly during the trailer, we will all gravitate towards one character dependent on our own subjective gravity towards certain personalities.
Naturally, I gravitated towards a giant shark but hey, that’s just me.
The Suicide Squad definitely feels different for all the right reasons and whilst I can’t see many films thereafter following in its unique and endearing footsteps it’s about time DC fans had a little something to be proud of living in the shadows (literally at times with many of the past film slates) of Marvel releases for all this time.
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