Nothing is as impactful as a movie ending well done. Some actors even choose their scripts based on this. But it seems for the cast of The Suicide Squad, how the movie ends is not a question they can answer. Director James Gunn reveals in tweets about how most of the cast only received scripts up until their character’s death.
Gunn’s response is originally to a fan questioning if alternative scripts were given to the team in order to stop leakers. Gunn obviously found a better solution – don’t give the cast the entire script at all!
He did however admit to changing Idris Alba’s character name to Vigilante in the scripts (and also on the back of Alba’s chair!)
Beyond their own character’s demise, some of the cast members only recently watched the movie’s ending, while others are yet to join the party.
The Suicide Squad’s intentions are a little on the nose – after all, with a squad name like that, you cannot not expect the death of a few characters. This is also aided by the intentional refurnishing of the Suicide Squad, that brings in comic book characters whose deaths won’t hurt the rest of the franchise.
2016’s Suicide Squad not only faced issues with bringing in iconic characters (who could not be killed, lest another film around them was decided) and unsettling the DCEU’s larger arch, its notes of a PG-13 guideline did not allow it to sing of the mayhem and murder associated with the flagrant squad.
The agenda for the 2021’s Suicide Squad is simple – the former imprisoned convicts are now members of Task Force X sent to destroy all traces of Jotenheim, a Nazi-era poison. This should be no problem for them, after all, they are dying to save the world.
So while the deaths of a few (or many?) in the Suicide Squad is very well expected, the movie is definitely building anticipation on what is in store for the happily ever after.
Big blockbusters are known to keep these details a secret – after all, counterpart Marvel is also notorious for fiercely and cunningly guarding its scripts and climaxes. There have been accounts of franchises distributing different scripts or even going to the extent of filming different scenes!
But The Suicide Squad’s big reveal also points to a possibility of it impacting other DCEU movies. Dare we say the villains who do survive may crossover and reappear to torment more poor souls and heroes in upcoming movies?
Sure have to watch The Suicide Squad come August 6 to find out!
About The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics team of the same name. Produced by DC Films, Atlas Entertainment, and The Safran Company, and set for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is intended to be a standalone sequel to Suicide Squad (2016) and the tenth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU).
Directed and written by James Gunn, the cast includes Idris Elba, Viola Davis, Sylvester Stallone, Jai Courtney, Peter Capaldi, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, Joel Kinnaman, Margot Robbie, John Cena, Mayling Ng, Sean Gunn, Taika Waititi, David Dastmalchian, Storm Reid, Alice Braga, Pete Davidson, Jennifer Holland, Flula Borg, Daniela Melchior, Tinashe Kajese-Bolden, Julio Cesar Ruiz.
The movie’s official synopsis reads, “Welcome to hell – aka Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out – even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X.”
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