The Suicide Squad
James Gunn ’s first DC movieThe Suicide Squad , a subsequence to the 2016 box office striking , will reportedly bug out film this fall . The first film brook from a turbulent post - production process that involved studio apartment interference and heavy reshoots , and the critical reception toSuicide Squadshowed they could n’t set all of the trouble . Despite this poor decisive reception , audiences around the public hold David Ayer ’s film to the melodic line of nearly $ 750 million . Ayer moved on to the Harley Quinn - ledGotham City Sirens , but a true sequel was still a priority .
After Gavin O’Connor join and then left the project , Gunn was hired to drop a line and eventually todirect a sequeltoSuicide Squad . He have his big rift with the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the director of the first twoGuardians of the Galaxymovies , but his schedule freed up tremendously after Disney fired him after some old tweet resurface . With a creative mind like Gunn attached toThe Suicide Squad , Warner Bros. and DC have given him complete exemption with the project . They ’ve already given the film a2021 firing date , and now we may roll in the hay when filming will begin .
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fit in toDeadline , Gunn is hoping to start out production onThe Suicide Squadthis September in Atlanta . This would give the continuation just under two years to complete filming and go through the entire post - production process . Considering Gunn has previously done as much with Marvel in close to a year time for eachGuardiansfilm , the extra clip may just be an added opulence to working with DC .
The news of a possible production schedule comes on the heel of reports thatWill Smith wo n’t generate as Deadshotfor the sequel . This is reportedly due to a scheduling battle , so the filming schedule must be clean interlace in for WB and Gunn to not move around the filming kickoff date to accommodate Smith ’s fussy docket . And even though the sequel will be without Smith , it ’s stillexpected to feature Margot Robbie ’s Harley Quinn .
What does make this good sense of urgency to start production onThe Suicide Squada bit surprising is the previously set August 2021 release date though . WB and DC have for the most part been operating under a production timeline of about 18 month from the start of film to the theatrical launch . IfThe Suicide Squadreally does get production this spill , Gunn could very well have the movie done and quick to reach theatre much earlier than WB presently has currently contrive . This is entirely suppositious , but it may even be done in time for a former 2020 release . We ’ll have to expect and see ifThe Suicide Squaddoes peg to this schedule though before we think too much about a new and early release date .
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