Producer Charles Roven Talks Eyes of The Adversary, The SUICIDE SQUAD's Mysterious Foes

Warner Bros. and DC's Suicide Squad comes out in just over two months, but remarkably, we still don't know much about who exactly our team of supervillains is going up against. Check out the official synopsis:

It feels good to be bad…Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

Even the trailers haven't revealed too much of that "enigmatic, insuperable entity," so when producer Charles Roven spoke with Total Film (via CS) and revealed the name of the group of bad guys as Eyes of The Adversary, we perked up:

“Let’s just say, when they’re called in to do this mission by Amanda, these are one of the things they encounter,” Roven said. “They don’t know how they got here, but they’re weird and dangerous and yet they’re wearing military uniforms.”

Turns out the "eye" part is literal. I never paid close enough attention before, but looking through the trailers, it appears these creatures (or whatever they are) are covered in eyes. Check out a couple of screenshots:

Who is The Adversary, I wonder? Is it Enchantress, who was rumored to be the main villain months ago? Or, what seems more likely to me, does it somehow tie in with the larger plan of the DC Extended Universe? (I wouldn't be at all surprised if The Adversary is Darkseid, for example.) I'd love to hear your theories in the comments.

In that same interview, director David Ayer talked about keeping the story grounded:

“You have to be true to the source material, but at the same time, I want to give the characters a real psychology and make them feel of our world. For me the fun is creating the illusion that you can walk down the street and run into Harley Quinn, or see the Joker driving along.”

And naturally, he spoke a bit about Jared Leto's Joker, who seems to be getting all of the attention when it comes to this movie:

“You’re looking at one of the best-known villains in western literature. He has to be very respectful and elegantly crafted, because you’re following in the footsteps of giants. He’s very loyal to the canon, but with some modern twists… With Jared, it’s interesting because how do you come at that character? It’s like treading on hallowed ground. It requires a strange combination of both respect and fearlessness. I don’t want to reveal too much about the magic trick…”

Suicide Squad fires into theaters on August 5, 2016.