Rumors have been flying like bullets but Warner Brothers makes it official.
Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie and Tom Hardy will star in Suicide Squad for director David Ayer according to The Hollywood Report Heat Vision.
Three big stars playing Batman villains while the actor who played Bane in The Dark Knight Rises will portray an old school DC Comics icon.
Leto will play the Joker, Robbie is Harley Quinn and Smith is Deadshot. Hardy will play team leader Rick Flag – a founding member of the unit in the comics.
The Task Force X (as they were originally called in comics ) will also include Jai Courtney (Divergent) as Boomerang and Cara Delevinge (Pan) will play Enchantress according to the story.
“David Ayer returns to the studio where he wrote Training Day and brings his incredible ability to craft multidimensional villains to this iconic DC property with a cast of longtime Warner collaborators Will Smith and Tom Hardy, and other new and returning favorites: Margot, Jared, Jai and Cara,” said Greg Silverman. “We look forward to seeing this terrific ensemble, under Ayer’s amazing guidance, give new meaning to what it means to be a villain and what it means to be a hero.”
Suicide Squad is a team of DC Comics villains run by the government taking on covert missions in exchange for a reduced sentence – if they survive.
The movie is scheduled for August 5, 2016.
Check out Suicide Squad: From the Ashes for the old school team by John Ostrander or these more recent volumes with Harley Quinn.
By Editor