I think it's going to surprise people
you kind of sit there and go how did they do that
it's going to be different from any superhero movie ever made
there's no one better in the world to direct the suicide squad
than james gunn i was excited with an opportunity
to be able to do the suicide squad in the way it could be done from my point
of view this one is completely unique this is a
gritty 1970s war movie combined with brilliance of james gunn's
characters in comedy you need your director to set the vibe
the suicide squad is just a twisted fantasy of characters within each of our
characters there's a certain beauty within most of them some of them are
just pretty crappy through and through be like a d*uchey captain america the
guy who believes in peace at any cost no matter how many
people he needs to kill along the way okay i got it
don't ever settle back like you think you know where this is going because
you don't as soon as you have some sense about what's about to happen next
james comes in
everyone's exploding heads arms legs
it's like a big massive graphic novel brought to life this is by far the
biggest movie i've ever made
i don't think that you know what to expect
don't get too attached this has been truly
the greatest most exciting journey of my life making this film
cut that was great
you know the deal successfully complete the mission you
get 10 years off your sentence
welcome to task force x these are your brothers and sisters for the next few days
Welcome back everyone it's charlie this is going to be my video for the suicide
squad trailer that they dropped at dc fandom this weekend we found out who all
the characters are playing we got a bunch of footage there's a bunch of
easter eggs so i'll explain where this fits in the justice league dceu
continuity and how this relates to the first
suicide squad movie there were a bunch of other trailers that dropped this
weekend i'm doing videos for everything so be sure to subscribe to get all those
videos i'm also doing a giveaway for this giant
box of dc fandom merch that they sent me so all you have to do to enter is just
be a subscriber let me know which new super weird suicide squad
character is your favorite the way they explain this movie is that
it's sort of a soft reboot of the franchise without completely retconning
the events of the first film but it does take place after the
events of the first film it also takes place after the events of justice league
obviously the justice league snyder cut doesn't really change the timeline that
much it still takes place relative to where the other films take
place but it also takes place after the events of the birds of prey movie even
though it doesn't necessarily reference a lot of stuff in that movie
most of what you see from harley quinn will just reference her history with the
joker even though james gunn did say that jared leto's joker does not appear
during this movie they obviously have to reference each of the characters
backstories in some quick hilarious way so when they're referencing harley
quinn's backstory they'll just reference the events of the previous film
briefly her history with the joker and her history with ben affleck's batman in
gotham but also ben affleck's batman does not appear during this movie either
even though he's coming back for the flash movie i'll do a separate video for
the flash movie teaser because they just revealed a whole bunch of big stuff
about that film the way they're describing this film
though is that it's a gritty 1970s war movie as they say during the trailer the
cool thing about that is that matt reeves just said that the
batman movie with robert pattinson is based on gritty 1970s cop shows in the
movie chinatown and joaquin phoenix's joker movie is
also based on that same gritty 1970s aesthetic
so all these crazy dc movies seem like they're going heavy on the 1970s just in
terms of style so if you really like that aesthetic
a lot of these films are going to feel like that too but just to be clear the
batman movie with matt reeves is an exception to the continuity it's not
really connected to justice league or the suicide squad movie
that exists in its own separate continuity i've already done a video
about that trailer so i'll add a link for that at the end of this and in the
description because it was badass but this new version of the suicide
squad gets caught up in a foreign war they didn't say where the war is
happening but from all the footage it just seems like it's somewhere generally
in the south american region probably going to be some big location
from dc comics history some of the bigger surprises though are
peter capaldi playing the thinker obviously there was a version of that on
the flash tv show but peter capaldi's version is a much more comic book
accurate version like you can actually see the nodes
sticking out of his skull that they have for his prosthetics
really happy to see this version of king shark i have a really big theory about
how they're going to pull that off in taiwan td's quote-unquote mystery
character nobody guessed who idris elba was playing
in michael rooker too big surprises so i'll explain all the characters with
some of the bigger justice league dceu easter eggs that connect this to the
other movies but the premise of the movie is simple
there's a foreign war that amanda waller is forced to deal with so she sends in
the suicide squad to handle it now during the footage you see them
rescuing little girls but it also seems like they're trying to topple a dictator
in a foreign government which is a very suicide squad thing to
do they don't do a lot of large-scale assaults on foreign countries
they're more of a surgical group that amanda waller sends in to topple
foreign dictators when she wants to get rid of them when they become an
inconvenience to the united states or the organization
for the price of 10 years off their sentence they complete the mission as
she says you get 10 years off your sentence which is also a bit of a teaser
for sequels if this movie does well enough
which it seems like it will it seems like it's going to be the biggest
craziest movie ever but some of these characters for
instance have done things that are so terrible that they probably have
consecutive life sentences on their terms
so getting 10 years knocked off doesn't really help them that much
so they'd have to go on a ton of different missions in order to
meaningfully reduce their sentence but the funny thing about this the whole
tagline of the movie don't get too attached quote unquote it's just to let
you know that they're definitely going to kill off some of these really
ridiculous characters i'm looking at you nathan fillion and
flula so if you feel like some of the characters costume just make them feel
super crazy and silly it's probably because they're going to kill them off
in hilarious ways during the movie for instance nathan fillion is playing a
character called tdk that is not a character from dc comics
history but early theory tdk the initials stand for the
detachable kid as in a version of arm's fall-off
boy which was an early theory people had about his characters
but early predictions he's going to be one of the earliest characters that they
kill off in some hilarious way i also love that they're doing king
shark so big and crazy he almost seems like he's going to be a version of king
shark from the harley quinn animated series
the more comedic version because get this yes you do see him running through
the trailer just eating people left and right anything he can get his
fins on but steve agee is the one doing the motion capture for him running
around on set like you see him in that giant harness
but the theory is is that taika watiti who's listed prominently in the credits
but doesn't appear during the trailer is just doing voiceover for a character
he's probably going to do the voiceover for king shark
so king shark will just run around in the film sounding like a kiwi
while eating people left and right think about king shark just running around
sounding like korg in the movie they also finally confirmed that sean gunn is
doing a version of the weasel character from the comics this is what he looks
like in the movie like really really horrific but it's probably gonna be kind
of hilarious too it's funny to see him going from playing
rocket tiny raccoon motion capture on the set of the
avengers films and guardians of the galaxy
to also playing a larger rodent-like character
but i don't know if he's also going to do the voice of the weasel character 2
or if they got somebody else to do that i love how john cena is saying that his
peacemaker character is like the d*uchiest version of captain america you
could possibly imagine and that's how he played him during the
movie idris elba's character actually has a bit of a cool backstory that ties
into some of the justice league and the superman movies
so he's playing bloodsport nobody guessed that but in the dc eu
he's been imprisoned for shooting henry cavill's superman with a kryptonite
bullet so obviously this takes place after the events of justice league when
superman has come back to life but because he's a mercenary he was
hired by jesse eisenberg's lex luthor so just a little bit of extra
superman story going on in the background
i don't know if that means that henry cavill is going to cameo during the film
because there were a lot of rumors about him signing a new contract to show up in
a couple different dc movies there's a way that they could do that
superman scene of him shooting with the kryptonite bullet without actually
having to have henry cavill on screen you could just have him off in the
distance being shot with a kryptonite bullet
but it would be way cooler just to have him on screen for like two
seconds while they do that backstory scene i'm really interested to see how
they explain mon gao because she's the daughter of
mongol in the dceu so we know that he exists out there somewhere even though
we haven't seen him on screen there's a lot of space-based dc movies
like the green lantern corps that we just haven't got to yet where we would
see those characters so hopefully at some point they'll get
around to making that new green lantern core movie or maybe they'll show up
during the hbo series and they can do war world during that
harley quinn has a couple new badass costumes she's going to be crazy as always
you've seen so much of margot robbie's harley quinn that i feel like you kind
of know what you're going to get going into one of her movies you all
know about captain boomerang joel kinnaman's rick flack amanda waller
all them coming from the events of the first film david dostmotion is playing
polka dot man obviously one of the more ridiculous characters cannot wait to see
what he's like during the movie michael rooker looking crazy with that
white wig is the savant character i actually thought that pete davison was
playing savant but he's just another character who's really good with
hand-to-hand combat so just expect michael rooker to be super crazy
you all probably know flula from either his youtube channel or the other comedic
stuff that he's been doing recently in the movies but his javelin character is
actually from the booster gold comics there was a booster gold movie that they
were going to try and make at some point that was going to be a comedy i don't
know what happened to that maybe we'll see him show up somewhere
but let me know in the comments which of these new characters are you most
excited about obviously that's not all the brand new characters that are going
to be in the film there'll be a bunch of easter eggs but the way james gunn talks
about it it's going to be huge and crazy and nobody has guessed the plot
completely the movie's coming out in august next
year around this time so we probably won't see the next
really big trailer until sometime early next year
but if they drop any more footage or promos or anything like that of course
i'll do a video there will be more trailers for the
justice league snyder cut i'm still doing a video for the flash movie teaser
for the black adam movie teaser and i've already done a video about the batman
trailer so you can click here to watch that a billion more times
and click here for all the other dc fandom movie trailers
thank you so much for watching everyone stay safe i'll see you guys tonight!