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

So is this a sequel? A reboot? Or a forget the first one ever happened and start with this one?

I feel like these early reactions are always glowing.

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I hope you guys enjoy it. I have no desire to see it.

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I felt this way at first but the reviews are changing my mind

I generally don’t give shite about critical reviews but if this one is accurate…

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By no means perfect, but like the Deadpool movies, it's a showcase for what can happen when a superhero movie is allowed to be sprightly, self-aware, and sardonic while also indulging in hard-R violence, gore, and language.

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Then that’s good news, particularly for DC moving forward. The more WB interferes, the worse a movie becomes. Let your creators create.

Still sitting at 97% on RT, and 77 with 32 reviews on Metacritic. Opens tomorrow. Unfortunately, the box office is looking rough.

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While the delta variant continues to be a stumbling block for the overseas box office, it’s not entirely certain that’s the continuing case at the domestic box office as more people become vaccinated.

Just keep all of this in mind as we watch the ticket sales for the third DC Harley Quinn movie, this one directed by Guardians of the Galaxy filmmaker James Gunn, The Suicide Squad from Warner Bros. The movie hits theaters and HBO Max day-and-date around the globe where the service is available. Total global opening we’re pegging is at $70M; $30M from 4,000 U.S./Canada theaters and $40M from abroad. Stateside, unlike previous Warner Bros./HBO Max movies, there will be Thursday previews starting at 7PM. 

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Which franchise should he do next?

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Though Gunn is returning to the Marvel fold, DC Films president Walter Hamada confirmed to THR there will be more from the filmmaker and DC in the future.

“Gunn is always welcome back, whatever he wants to do. He really has a vision and he’s a great partner with us. Whenever he wants to come back, we’re ready for him,” said Hamada, who added, “He’ll be back. We have more stuff planned.”

Those plans remain shrouded in mystery, though Gunn has tantalized fans with a suggestion that another Squad spinoff could be in the works.

Charles Roven, the producer who has worked on DC films such as The Dark Knight, Batman v. Superman and now The Suicide Squad, noted that the film came in under budget and had no days of additional photography — a rarity in blockbuster filmmaking.

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Yeah, I was thinking that. I'll update it

I’m going to catch it on the big screen tomorrow and then probably watch it again a couple of weeks later to pick up on everything.

I still need to rewatch the real Justice League again.

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As mentioned, the director has already talked about how Warner Bros. was really excited about the idea of Gunn tackling a “Superman” feature. However, the filmmaker just doesn’t connect with that character. But he did have an idea for Superman’s dog, Krypto.

“I considered doing a Krypto movie which I thought would be really fun, but that shows you where my head’s at,” he explained. “I wasn’t interested in doing a [traditional] Superman thing—a superpowered dog from Krypton, running around a city, destroying it, while Superman tries to track him down and get him. That seemed interesting to me.”

But it wasn’t until he watched David Ayer’s “Suicide Squad” film that he had the idea to completely revamp that franchise.

“I started to fall in love with Suicide Squad,” Gunn said. “I watched the last movie for the first time, and I called Walter Hamada, and I said, ‘What do I have to keep from the movie and what do I not have to keep?’ And he said, ‘You don’t have to keep anything. You could change everybody, you could change nobody, we love Margot [Robbie], and we’d love it if she was in the movie, but you don’t have to keep her. You can do whatever you want.’”

He continued, “So then I just started writing this story and it just took off and it was more exciting than all the other ideas I was working on. It just became clear which thing I was most passionate about.”

So, if Gunn isn’t interested in Superman and is much more comfortable writing about a superpowered dog or a team of misfit villains, is there a traditional iconic superhero that he would consider? Well, apparently, yes. Unfortunately, Matt Reeves got there first.

“I’m not saying I’d never be interested in Superman, but if it was Batman, which Matt [Reeves] was already doing, it might’ve felt differently because I understand Batman. I understand Harley Quinn; I don’t understand every character,” he said.

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