‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: James Gunn Stages a Do-Over With Destructive Style

James Gunn had something totally different planned for The Suicide Squad!

After watching James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad,” you really can’t imagine the team fighting any other villain than Starro. The giant, colorful, frankly ridiculous alien starfish fits perfectly with the tone set forth through the first two acts of Gunn’s superhero film.

to Deadline, the “The Suicide Squad” star has marked a monumental milestone, landing a No. 1 box office film for six consecutive decades.

Suicide Squad character that he couldn’t bring himself to kill off in his latest film.While Gunn kills off several characters in the opening scene of his latest film, The Suicide Squad, he revealed to Variety that there was one character he couldn’t bring himself to kill, even though it was in his original plan to do so.Gunn revealed that he killed off Ratcatcher 2 in the development stage but admitted that he couldn’t do it because the character was too “sweet” to kill.

SPOILER WARNING: Do not read if you have not seen “The Suicide Squad,” currently playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.For anyone familiar with James Gunn’s career, his DC comics adaptation “The Suicide Squad” is arguably the most James Gunn movie he’s ever made. Like his Marvel Studios’ films — 2014’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” and 2017’s “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

We left our three year old at home and went with our oldest two – ages 8 and 6 – to go see James Gunn‘s new The Suicide Squad movie starring Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, John Cena and more. There were tears! It was… a lot. Watch to check out our thoughts!

David Ayer who? If you’re the folks at Warner Bros. and DC Films, that’s the exact question they want audiences to ask after seeing James Gunn’s latest film, “The Suicide Squad.” Though Ayer did, technically, make a “Suicide Squad” film back in 2016 (though it might not conform to his exact vision), the studio behind that feature is hoping you have selective amnesia and embrace what is happening in Gunn’s reinvention of the misfit supervillain troupe, Task Force X.

Warner Bros. fired up James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad last night, the studio’s first Thursday preview in a long time arguably since pre-pandemic; the DC R-rated ensemble seeing $4.1M off showtimes that began at 7PM; the biggest for a R-rated movie during the pandemic.

And when I say major spoilers, I'm talking who lives, who dies, spoiling-the-end-of-the-movie MAJOR spoilers.

Taika Waititi's name was part of the original cast announcement for James Gunn's semi-sequel, semi-reboot, totally-its-own-thing take on. But when the director eventually unveiled who was playing who in the movie, Waititi's role went conspicuously undisclosed.At the time, we predicted perhaps Waititi would voice King Shark (though that was revealed to be none other than Sly Stallone).

Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Viola Davis, Nathan Fillion, Pete Davidson and Joel Kinnaman, among so many others. is directed and written by James Gunn — the same mastermind behind films like, and .Here are all the details on how, when and where to watch .The film's theatrical release is Friday, August 6, but beginning Thursday, August 5 at 4 p.m.

Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Viola Davis, Nathan Fillion, Pete Davidson and Joel Kinnaman, among so many others. is directed and written by James Gunn — the same mastermind behind films like, and .Here are all the details on how, when and where to watch .The film's theatrical release is Friday, August 6, but beginning Thursday, August 5 at 7 p.m.

A great comic book movie requires a lot of elements to fall into place. You need a great special effects team, at least one compelling hero or antihero to rally behind for two hours, and a snappy script peppered with engaging action.

James Gunn knows how to keep a good thing going. After breaking out with, the writer-director-fanboy auteur was brought up from the indies for Marvel's and its sequel,.

The Suicide Squad‘s James Gunn has opened up about how he uses music in his films.The filmmaker, whose Marvel film Guardians Of The Galaxy featured a soundtrack of iconic 1970s hits, spoke to NME on the matter of music.“I write all of the songs into the screenplay, and then those songs we play on set as we do the scenes,” the filmmaker revealed.“So when you see them walk through the rain to Pixies‘ ‘Hey’, we have Pixies’ ‘Hey’ blasting on set.”He continued: “Not only do I have the songs that I

took to Twitter to defend his original idea for the film just one week before the release of James Gunn’s upcoming retooling, aptly titled “The Suicide Squad,” which has already received significant praise from critics. Many have compared Gunn’s version to Ayer’s disappointing effort, which Ayer claims is not fully his work.“I don’t know what quit is.

The Suicide Squad star Idris Elba has laid out the differences between the film and its 2016 predecessor.Speaking to NME on the day of the film’s release (July 30), Elba said that the differences ultimately come down to James Gunn and David Ayer’s contrasting approaches to the franchise.“I think fans will appreciate that these are two great filmmakers who attacked it differently,” he said.He added that he felt fans would “take some comfort in the fact that James Gunn is an absolute almanac for

It has been a tumultuous day in the superhero and sci-fi space: We’ve seen a Black Widow lawsuit from Scarlett Johansson, a Doctor Who shake-up and the UK premiere last night of Warner Bros.’ The Suicide Squad, all of which we talk about on this week’s podcast. We also have producer Peter Safran on how he worked with James Gunn to bring his zany Dirty Dozen-inspired vision for The Suicide Squad to life.

Ethan Shanfeld On Thursday, David Ayer posted an emotional letter on Twitter that praises James Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” and revealed information about his director’s cut of the polarizing 2016 film “Suicide Squad.”“I put my life into Suicide Squad. I made something amazing – My cut is intricate and emotional journey with some ‘bad people’ who are shit on and discarded (a theme that resonates in my soul),” Ayer wrote.

Following a tweet by film journalist Tim Grierson about loving James Gunn‘s “The Suicide Squad” and suggesting that director “David Ayer should just abandon the idea of [his] director’s cut,” Ayer, the director of 2016’s “Suicide Squad” — the film Grierson is specifically addressing — Ayer posted a lengthy rebuttal on Twitter once again disavowing the theatrical cut of that film, because it wasn’t his cut.