The Suicide Squad’: The First Trailer Is Wild, And NSFW At long last, the trailer to James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad has finally been released. As we knew from the initial casting announcements, there aren’t many characters in common with the original film from 2016: Viola Davis is back as Amanda Waller, the government agent who helps assemble the team. Also is Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, who starred in her own film, 2020’s Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). But Warner Brothers seems to want to distance this film from the original: they are not calling the film “Suicide Squad 2,” but The Suicide Squad. The 2016 film’s official title was Suicide Squad (without the “The”).
Unsurprisingly, the film seems more like a spiritual cousin to Gunn’s Marvel series, the Guardians Of the Galaxy, which also features a bunch of misfits coming together as family to… well, get something done. And like Guardians, Gunn’s Suicide Squad features Michael Rooker, who we see in the trailer, as well as Gunn’s brother Peter Gunn. Like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, this sequel also features Sylvester Stallone.
