SUICIDE SQUAD: 4 EW Covers, New Plot Info, and David Ayer is Feeling The Pressure
It's been crazy to see how much hype and excitement there is for Suicide Squad. As director David Ayer pointed out in a recent interview with EW, this is a DC property not a lot of people were familiar with, but now everyone can't wait to get in on the action.
You can't deny that the movie looks awesome, and all the footage that I've seen has been crazy impressive. I'm most excited about seeing Harley Quinn finally making her live-action big screen debut and seeing Jared Leto's Joker performance. I just hope that Ayer nailed the perfect story and script for the film. The director is definitely feeling the pressure now. He explained in the interview:
“Two years ago Suicide Squad was a tertiary [DC property]. No one knew anything about it. It was a cool little playground, and I was going to go make my movie. Now it’s like the hype bus. All of the attention has swung onto it, and it has to carry a lot more weight than it was ever intended to. I think it can sustain it. But it’s a lot of pressure. You definitely feel the pressure.”
There's a lot riding on the film, but I personally think it will be better received by audiences and critics than Batman v Superman. Will it make more money, though? That has yet to be seen. The magazine goes on to offer us a new description of the film which reveals that Amanda Waller's first mission for the Suicide Squad is to take down a possessed archaeologist named June Moone a.k.a. Enchantress. The Joker's role in the film is also revealed as he's on a mission of passion to reunite with Harley Quinn, and this will apparently pose a problem for the team.
Suicide Squad takes place in a post-Superman world, following the events of Dawn of Justice, as the government grapples with how to respond the next time an alien visits Earth with less noble intentions than the Man of Steel. The answer, according to ruthless intelligence officer Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), is to recruit society’s most vile criminals, armed with lethal skills and superhuman powers. Her first target is possessed archaeologist June Moone/Enchantress (Cara Delevingne).
Waller’s program doesn’t get a green light, though, until Midway City is threatened by a powerful mystical enemy, and Waller needs to activate the whole squad of prisoners. The baddies get a break. Deadshot (Will Smith) has his Second Amendment rights reinstated, Harley (Margot Robbie) is carefully excised from her birdcage, Diablo (Jay Hernandez) is released from his own fireproof fortress of solitude, Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and Slipknot (Adam Beach) strap their weapons back on, and Killer Croc (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) is popped from his swamp. The one condition for their restricted freedom: Obey orders or die, a rule strictly enforced by squad leader Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), his samurai Katana (Karen Fukuhara), and the explosive devices inserted into their necks courtesy of Wayne Enterprises. Throwing a wrench into all these plans is the tatted Gotham City arch-criminal, the Joker (Jared Leto), and his laser-like plan to reunite with his true love, Harley, mission be damned.
But a funny thing happens while these scumbags try to become heroes – they each must absolve themselves of their crimes even if society won’t. And that’s where it gets interesting. A layer of humanity – and sadness – resides underneath these characters’ stories as they each grapple with whether they can be redeemed.
Suicide Squad is set to be released on August 5th.
