re: James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad' Discussion Thread ' - Spoilers

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The Fast franchise continues to amaze me. The new one should cross 700 million. That's incredibly impressive in this current climate.

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Seems like had everything been normal that Fast 9 would have likely gone well past a billion while Black Widow would have been somewhere around $700 million.

It's harder to guess what Suicide Squad would have done since the Delta variant and uptick in infections plus the "free" HBO release but I think it's safe to say that due to the movie's $185 million filming budget it would have had a disappointing result regardless. That sucks too. Essentially WB killed both this and Harley Quinn's BO potential w/the way they bungled the development of the first Suicide Squad movie.

Now the fool who gave Ayer two weeks to write SS then went behind his back and used an advertising post house to re-edit his version to ape Guardians of the Galaxy is going to be running around the halls of WB like he was right all along b/c it made $746m while the person who green lit TSS, pushed to hire Gunn, and gave him that budget is probably on the chopping block.