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Suicide Squad Film Slowly Coming Together with the Possibility of David Ayer Signing On

Writer/Director David Ayer eyeing this property

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According to The Hollywood Reporter, David Ayer, the writer/director of Sabotage, End of Watch, and the upcoming Fury, is eyeing working on Warner Bros/DC Entertainment's upcoming Suicide Squad film.

Suicide Squad is a DC team book about incarcerated villains looking for a way to redeem themselves/get out of jail. The Suicide Squad team goes on over-the-top missions and the death of team members is expected, hence the name. The team features Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Black Manta and more.

Justin Marks has been attached to this book as a writer for the past couple of years, but it seems it was put aside so Warner Bros can work on other projects (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice). Chuck Roven is also attached to produce the film.

It seems like a fantastic idea to have Ayer jump onto this film, since he makes some gritty, violent films, which is what this franchise really needs. What do you guys think?

Source: THR

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I think with films like Red and The Losers already being made (not to mention the scores of other action/espionage movies) I think this would be great.

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Dude...yes.

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Boynerdgeek

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David Ayer is good director right ? Also please make this Rated R. Don't want PG 13

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10 years Ago : Who is this Suicide Squad ? Meh don't care

Now : Suicide Squad is trending worldwide on twitter LOL

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Man, the floodgates have opened.

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David Ayer wrote 2001 Training Day great news for Wb/Dc.

Let's hope this movie is part of DCCU.

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BLACK MANTA PLX

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This is DC news I can get behind. Hopefully this version of the team has some interesting supervillains and less juggalettes.

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This is all sorts of wrong without the ground work first. Any and all villain in this should have been in a film already and then form, like the evil version of Avengers mcu. This would obviously require an Aquaman film, and varios others to show them all getting locked up and recruited.

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interesting this comes out the day deadpool is announced. hmmm...but glad they are finally doing these comic movies for small budget they announced like a year ago. wonder who they would use other than amanda waller? hope they can get cch pounder or pam grier to play amanda waller. then would like to see captain boomerang, deadshot, bronze tiger, harley quinn, and from the old guard enchantress, nightshade and plastique

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@g_leno: do you watch Assault on Arkham animated movie ? That will be great formula to do Suicide Squad movie

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@4thor said:

David Ayer wrote 2001 Training Day great news for Wb/Dc.

Let's hope this movie is part of DCCU.

Let's not forget End of Watch which is an insanely good movie that he also also written.

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DC is killing it!

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SilverPool

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I don't care for the Suicide Squad, but with David Ayer on the project I am totally down for this, and excited.

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@4thor said:

David Ayer wrote 2001 Training Day great news for Wb/Dc.

Let's hope this movie is part of DCCU.

Let's not forget End of Watch which is an insanely good movie that he also also written.

Yes totally agree End of Watch in my opinion is one of the best movies of 2012, i just don't point that out because it is in the topic synopsis.

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I'm sorry i couldn't read the post over the sound me chanting "HELL YEA!!" someone wanna tell me what this is about?

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@4thor said:

@silverpool said:
@4thor said:

David Ayer wrote 2001 Training Day great news for Wb/Dc.

Let's hope this movie is part of DCCU.

Let's not forget End of Watch which is an insanely good movie that he also also written.

Yes totally agree End of Watch in my opinion is one of the best movies of 2012, i just don't point that out because it is in the topic synopsis.

Dammit!

I only skimmed

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Cool beans

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It would be an awesome movie but who would be the villains. Some terrorist group like kobra or basilisk. That would get boring real quick. A better plot would be a suicide squad vs former members. U have members like deadshot or harley quinn who hav a moral center going up against former members who r just evil like black manta or count vertigo

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I'm all for this

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Meh, I'm not really a Suicide Squad fan. However as long as Deathstroke is not on the team I'm not against it being made.

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Sounds good.

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Could be really good.

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If deadpool is getting a movie there's no way DC wasn't planning on either making a movie about harley quinn or lobo.

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SO................. MUCH.................. DC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO.......MUCH......................... MARVEL!!!!!!!!!

I'm not complaining.

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>From the writer of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

>A director with mostly mediocre output.

So you know this is gonna suck, right?

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I hope it's like the justice league unlimited task force x episode i want to see the characters take such risks and use their wits and skills to the extreme not just their weapons. Characters I want to see Rick flag, Fat Amanda Waller, Captain Boomerang, Bronze tiger, Deadshot, King shark, Clock king, plastique, Cameron chase, Harley quinn, Knockout, mirror master(yea it would be cool to see him use those abilities to help the team the dude can use a mirror to teleport).

others/ cameos(maybe in iron heights prison): the flash rogues, Count vertigo, multiplex, cluemaster, killer croc(maybe a vs fight with king shark), black spider, icicle, Nemesis, Hugo strange, nightshade, black manta, savant, Sgt. rock, Wade Eilling, sportsmaster(yes like in young justice), deathstroke (maybe a mask cameo), Ray palmer.

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@boynerdgeek: do you realize what would happen if they made it r. The amount they make would collapse as highschool students wouldn't be able to see it without parents. People need to stop complaining That the ratings will be too low when it's obvious that an r rating would kill the box office.

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really @drapplebox perhaps you haven't watched end of the watch, training day, u-571 etc.

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DC has had trouble nailing the proper tone for the Suicide Squad in the comics. I don't have much faith in a movie studio having any better luck.

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Awesome news.

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Damn, DC finally saying "hey other company we have more teams than you can count lol"

They BETTER Use....Deathstroke!

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If that god awful Harley Quinn isn't in it, then I can support this because David Ayers is an awesome director and writer. Please keep Harley away, the Suicide Squad used to be hard core. (John Ostrander's run) Now they're a joke.

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@g_leno: Knowing DC I doubt it'll be connected to the "DCU"...

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Let's hope it stays far away from how sucky the comic has become.

Yeah, I know that the team is seemingly more popular than it was back in the 80s/90s, but ugh this lineup bugs me.

I agree that having the members of the Squad make their first appearances in other films would have been a good approach, but the time for that has passed.

I'd love the NYC arc of Ostrander's run adapted as a motion picture. Some of those battles against the Jihad members were quite cinematic.

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Sweet! I prefer Deadshot 10x more than Deathstroke. If the live action film is anything like The Losers, or Assault on Arkham then I'm definitely going to enjoy it. (+)

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The lineup of the Suicide Squad needs to be Rick Flag Jr., Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, Bronze Tiger, and Plastique.

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@nightfang: This is my ideal roster too. I'd add Count Vertigo.

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cool...i guess

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Nice. But don't hold your breath.

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The funny thing is Assault on Arkham is mainly based on New 52 Suicide Squad line up and...people love it that movie. It is very fun movie

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this is fantastic

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I don't care who else is on the team, I just want to see Multiplex...

~KL~

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DC's been giving them a lot of spotlight lately.

But I cannot support anything that puts the Joker and Harley Quinn against each other.

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This better happen, and better happen correctly. I love SS.

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I take it won't be released soon? What with DC's only villain being a dead Zod as of now or is this yet another different world?

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@feartheliving: with Director almost attach seems like the Suicide Squad movie possibly on 2016 or 2017. Well if you watch Assault on Arkham animated movie, you just have to know that Amanda Waller assemble this bad guy to do secret black ops mission. That is all we need. We don't need to do 3 or 4 solo movies to assemble Suicide Squad movie. Besides Guardians of the galaxy movie prove that we don't need Groot solo movie, we don't need Rocket solo movie, We don't need Gamora solo movie, We don't need Drax solo movie to establish their personality and characters. Suicide Squad can follow same formula

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Feels like I've been saying this a lot lately, but it's a great time to be a comic fan.

Though I'm iffy about this movie succeeding, I'm so happy to see these other characters getting notice.

But yea, I feel like Suicide Squad is more enjoyable when you've read stories with these characters as villains. You get a better understanding of who they are. I don't know how they'd introduce them in their own movie like this.