Taking a break from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, director James Gunn steps away, albeit briefly, from the “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise (he directed both the original 2014 film and its 2017 sequel) to dip his toes into the DC Universe and with a new interpretation of The Suicide Squad.
Reprising her role of Amanda Waller from the original film version of Suicide Squad (2016), Viola Davis sets the film in motion when she assembles a team of the worst villains she can find and then heavily arming them and sending them on a search-and-destroy mission to the island of Corto Maltese to take out the latest diabolical threat to the global community. To do so, Waller enlists Colonel Rick Flagg (Joel Kinnaman) to lead the unit (which is called the “Suicide Squad” due to the tiny explosives placed in the various soldiers’ necks to be detonated should they try to escape or...
Reprising her role of Amanda Waller from the original film version of Suicide Squad (2016), Viola Davis sets the film in motion when she assembles a team of the worst villains she can find and then heavily arming them and sending them on a search-and-destroy mission to the island of Corto Maltese to take out the latest diabolical threat to the global community. To do so, Waller enlists Colonel Rick Flagg (Joel Kinnaman) to lead the unit (which is called the “Suicide Squad” due to the tiny explosives placed in the various soldiers’ necks to be detonated should they try to escape or...
- 8/3/2021
- by Mike Tyrkus
- CinemaNerdz
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