DC’s bad guys and girls team-up Suicide Squad finally — finally — comes out next week, after, I think, years of trailers, and character posters, and stories about how Jared Leto might genuinely be insane, or at least threaten to “castrate you and make you eat your own testicles.” Y’know, as the Joker. There’s seemingly very little left to say — you probably decided whether you’re seeing the movie months before the Suicide Squad line debuted at Hot Topic — but the New York Times uncovered some interesting information. Namely, how the gloom and doom of the critically reviled Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice affected the joyful-by-comparison Suicide Squad.
Warner Bros. executive Greg Silverman admitted that with Batman v. Superman, “people wished it was a little more fun or a little bit more flamboyant. We knew we had Suicide Squad coming, and you sense they should be happy with it.” Being happy while watching a movie? What a novel idea. Meanwhile, director David Ayer, who commented in a separate interview that the reaction to BvS means “there’s definitely more scrutiny” on Suicide Squad, said, “Ideally, we’d just be drafting in their wake.” But Warner Bros. showed test audiences an early cut, because “it can’t just be this protective, internal process” according to Ayer. “We have to put this out in the world. What can we upgrade? What can we improve? How can we make it better?”
I have an idea: maybe don’t shoot a beloved character in the head because it’s “fun.” Other than that, Suicide Squad should be just fine.
(Via the New York Times)
