Thanks to Disney for firing James Gunn as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy 3. If he wouldn’t have been fired, we never could have saw the world beyond superheroes and hence, The Suicide Squad would have never existed. Gunn was quickly offered by DC to make whatever film he wanted to make using his incredible imagination after the huge success of Guardians. And when given a chance like this, James just couldn’t waste it and the filmmaker surprisingly chose the antihero team of miscreants and villains. If you’ve seen Gunn’s earlier work though, you’ll know it was the perfect choice.
James Gunn blended the big-screen spectacle of Guardians of the Galaxy with the bloody violence and dark humour of his horror work, This Suicide Squad 2021 will definitely prove to be the biggest and the most entertaining blockbuster of the year. It’s Gunn let off the leash to do whatever he wants creatively – and he definitely does some weird shit. As mentioned before, it was right that Disney let him go in the first place even though they have reinstated him as Guardians 3 director. After all the crazy stuff happening in the monster’s world, we don’t want to let go of the human-shark hybrid devouring humans.
Government agent Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) comes to Robert DuBois aka “Bloodsport” (Idris Elba) with an offer—ten years off his sentence if he leads a team of fellow inmates on a mission to the island of Corto Maltese to destroy a dangerous government project that threatens American security. A reluctant DuBois takes the deal and puts together a team that includes Abner Krill aka “Polka-Dot Man” (David Dastmalchian) who can toss deadly polka dots at people; the half-man, half-shark Nanaue aka “King Shark” (voiced by Sylvester Stallone); Cleo Cazo aka “Ratcatcher 2” (Daniela Melchior), who can control legions of rats; and the violently zealous and self-righteous Christopher Smith aka “Peacemaker” (John Cena). The team expands to include the cheerful and deadly Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) as well as the upright soldier Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman). Together, this group of deadly misfits must save the world from something called “Project Starfish.”
We totally get if you’ve approached the release of The Suicide Squad with some dread as we felt the same, especially in the wake of the previous version. But with James Gunn we know one thing for sure and that is you won’t be thinking about the tension within minutes of stepping into Gunn’s take on this world. Not everything works the way we want it to and that’s totally fine because we want a blockbuster to be a unique movie which is the product of a filmmaker, rather than a committee.
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