Warner Brothers announced the cast for Suicide Squad. Will Smith, Jared Leto, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney and Cara Delevinge will star as the rogues recruited by a covert government agency.
Deadshot, The Joker, Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Enchantress, and Rick Flag are the characters chosen for this Dirty Dozen/Mission Impossible team.
In the comics it’s Amanda “The Wall” Waller who runs the secret operation. No one has been cast yet. If Waller in the movie and who should play the tough director of Task Force X?
John Ostrander created the modern version of DC’s Suicide Squad. Who is his pick?
“What’s really interesting to me is that all three of the women that they were talking about, Oprah Winfrey, Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, were at the top of my list. Actually, I was just talking to my fiancé Mary Mitchell the other day, just before this was announced, and those were the three names that came to me off the top of my head. Oprah was actually at the top of my list! She showed in “The Color Purple” that she’s a really good actor, and she’s got the attitude for Waller. And they’re all of the same general build, which I made for Waller. I like that, as well. I think Queen Latifah would be a good fit, too. She almost did Waller when she did “Chicago.” She certainly has the attitude,” Ostrander told Comic Book Resources.
“These are all A-list, big name people. Again, this isn’t a film just for the fans of the comic. They want as many people [as possible], and that means the general public, to go see this film. This kind of casting is capable of grabbing lots of people and putting them in seats. This is a very serious enterprise.”
Amanda Waller may be team leader but could be portrayed as the villain, too. The brilliant government operative
David Ayer (Fury) is directing.
Suicide Squad will hit theaters in August 2016 right after Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
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