So I guess Suicide Squad 2 is going to be a thing?
Warner Bros. and DC have close to 1,587 superhero projects currently in development, and each day brings some new report that one is inching closer to actually being made. It shouldn't necessarily be a surprise that Suicide Squad 2 is a possibility, considering the fact that the original made $745.6 million worldwide even though it was regarded as a slightly unknown property. But the making of that film was so conflicted, fraught with disastrous reshoots, directorial shake-ups, and trailers that changed the entire tone of the project, that it's kind of amazing to me that Warner wants to go down that rabbit hole again. Money talks, but with all of the various options that they have on the table, why go back and make a sequel to a movie that virtually nobody liked in the first place? If Hollywood learned any lessons from a disastrous summer at the box office, the fact that nobody wants sequels to bad movies should have been at the top of the list. But nonetheless, it appears that we're going to be returning to this world with everyone's favorite (?) band of supervillains.
According to Variety's Justin Kroll, Gavin O'Connor will be behind the camera for Suicide Squad 2, and he'll also be penning the script. The film won't shoot until the fall of 2018, but according to Kroll, it is a high priority for the studio. After O'Connor's success with The Accountant (which is supposedly getting a sequel at some point), it isn't really a surprise that he's heading to this bigger, more hotly anticipated project. I wasn't a big fan of that goofy action thriller, nor have I ever seen Warrior, O'Connor's critically acclaimed MMA thriller. But not even the fact that O'Connor directed Miracle (a great sports drama that I had no idea he was involved with) can get me excited for Suicide Squad 2. I bit into the anticipation hard last time, and that film burned me like very few ever have. So there is literally no reason to be excited for a sequel. Even if Warner Bros. threw Christopher Nolan behind the camera, I probably wouldn't care. Hopefully O'Connor delivers something good, but I will be skeptical until the moment that I'm sitting down in that theater. At this rate, that'll probably be sometime in 2019. So we'll see.
The DCEU will return to the big screen with Justice League on November 17.
Image: WB/IMDB
Warner Bros. and DC have close to 1,587 superhero projects currently in development, and each day brings some new report that one is inching closer to actually being made. It shouldn't necessarily be a surprise that Suicide Squad 2 is a possibility, considering the fact that the original made $745.6 million worldwide even though it was regarded as a slightly unknown property. But the making of that film was so conflicted, fraught with disastrous reshoots, directorial shake-ups, and trailers that changed the entire tone of the project, that it's kind of amazing to me that Warner wants to go down that rabbit hole again. Money talks, but with all of the various options that they have on the table, why go back and make a sequel to a movie that virtually nobody liked in the first place? If Hollywood learned any lessons from a disastrous summer at the box office, the fact that nobody wants sequels to bad movies should have been at the top of the list. But nonetheless, it appears that we're going to be returning to this world with everyone's favorite (?) band of supervillains.
According to Variety's Justin Kroll, Gavin O'Connor will be behind the camera for Suicide Squad 2, and he'll also be penning the script. The film won't shoot until the fall of 2018, but according to Kroll, it is a high priority for the studio. After O'Connor's success with The Accountant (which is supposedly getting a sequel at some point), it isn't really a surprise that he's heading to this bigger, more hotly anticipated project. I wasn't a big fan of that goofy action thriller, nor have I ever seen Warrior, O'Connor's critically acclaimed MMA thriller. But not even the fact that O'Connor directed Miracle (a great sports drama that I had no idea he was involved with) can get me excited for Suicide Squad 2. I bit into the anticipation hard last time, and that film burned me like very few ever have. So there is literally no reason to be excited for a sequel. Even if Warner Bros. threw Christopher Nolan behind the camera, I probably wouldn't care. Hopefully O'Connor delivers something good, but I will be skeptical until the moment that I'm sitting down in that theater. At this rate, that'll probably be sometime in 2019. So we'll see.
The DCEU will return to the big screen with Justice League on November 17.
Image: WB/IMDB
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