Please Stop Trying to Make Suicide Squad Happen
fortressofsolitude.co.zaOne would think that Warner Bros. Discovery and DC would sour on the Suicide Squad franchise as a whole. Yet, here we are, with the imminent release of Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League video game around the corner, and not a single person gives a damn about it. The controversy surrounding the microtransactions and live service elements resulted in the delay of the game, and now the early press previews have felt like Harley Quinn herself took a mallet to the title. In short, this game looks to be dead on arrival.
It’s strange how WBD and DC continue to put their faith in this team made up of former supervillains, since nothing related to them has wielded overwhelming success or had the audience screaming for more. They also fleet in and out of the comics, proving that the time for Task Force X to shine may have been in the early 2010s and not now. That said, the question remains: Is anyone paying attention to what the fans want anymore?
The year 2016 wasn’t kind to DC movies. After the divisive reaction to Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, which was meant to be the nucleus that would branch off the entire DC Extended Universe, Warner Bros. scrambled to re-edit David Ayer’s Suicide Squad and make it a fun rather than dark comic book movie. In the end, it made a lot of money – $747 million from a $175 million budget – but it still received a hammering from critics and fans for not being a good movie at all.
The stories surrounding the production have become the stuff of legend – from tales about Ayer being locked out of the editing room to reams of footage of an entirely different movie lying on the floor (supposedly featuring more of Jared Leto’s Joker). Ayer himself clamoured for the release of his own director’s cut, especially after the success of the Snyder Cut movement, but even he seems to have accepted it may never happen now.
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