Jared Leto, Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney and Cara Delevingne will make up the all-star cast of Warner Bros.’ supervillain tentpole “Suicide Squad,” it was announced on Tuesday.
Based on the DC comicbook, the story centers on the team of supervillains who are given a chance at redemption by the government. The catch: Their mission will probably kill them all.
The actors’ names had long been rumored for the high-profile movie, which opens Aug. 5, 2016, but their deals and characters hadn’t been finalized.
Here’s the official cast/character list:
Jared Leto – The Joker
Will Smith – Deadshot
Tom Hardy – Rick Flag
Margot Robbie – Harley Quinn
Jai Courtney – Boomerang
Cara Delevingne – Enchantress
“Suicide Squad,” directed by David Ayer and produced by Charles Roven and Richard Suckle, will begin shooting next April in Toronto.
According to insiders, Jesse Eisenberg is also in talks to play Lex Luthor in the film, a role he will first play in “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice,” though the status of his deal is unknown.
“The Warner Bros. roots are deep on this one,” Warner Bros. president Greg Silverman said in a statement. “We look forward to seeing this terrific ensemble, under David Ayer’s amazing guidance, give new meaning to what it means to be a villain and what it means to be a hero.”
Warners has long viewed this project as the “Ocean’s Eleven” of comicbook movies and has been looking to load up the roster with top tier talent.
Warners still has the role of Amanda Waller, the character who oversees the team (similar to Nick Fury in the Marvel universe), to cast before the film goes into production. The studio’s shortlist of actresses being eyed for the role includes Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Oprah Winfrey, whom sources say would be WB’s first choice for the part.
Leto, who is making his first pic since winning the Oscar for “Dallas Buyers Club,” is repped by CAA and Untitled.Smith can be seen next in Warner Bros.’ “Focus” which also stars Robbie. Both are reppped by CAA, with Robbie also repped by Management 360 and Aran Michael Management, and Smith repped by Overbrook Entertainment.
Hardy is currently filming “The Revenant” opposite Leonardo DiCaprio which bows next Christmas. He is repped by CAA.
The WME-repped Delevingne, an English model-turned-actress, can next be seen in Warner Bros.’ “Pan.”
Courtney appears in the upcoming “Terminator” reboot as well as Universal’s “Unbroken” and Lionsgate’s “Insurgent,” and is repped by UTA and Silver Lining Entertainment.
This is going to be a trainwreck
Green Latern, The Lone Ranger, & Fantastic 4 1&2 were all trains wrecks & no African-American leads. Why don’t we all just wait & see. It’s a real crapshoot nowadays anyways, with any movie from any genre with any actor (regardless of race). Peace!
lol you morons, Hollywood continuously puts white characters in ethnic roles ie Christian Bale for Exodus, Jake Gylenhaal as a prince of PERSIA, Laurence Oliver as Othello, Tom Cruise in a samurai film…. Now that it’s the other way around–you can’t deal. get over it.
Morons, really? You,re making broad sweeping assumptions don’t you think?
Yes, Jake Gylenhaal in prince of Persia was terrible, didn’t watch. Oliver as Othello, those were different times long ago. Still, very odd. As was John Wayne and Tom Cruise as an Asian.
Now once again Will Smith. That’s twice he’s been cast to fill a PC checkmark.
Stop it Hollywood.
I would rather see the women swap roles.
forget about race, will smith is not a good actor he plays himself most of the time wich works in Bruckheimer movies but gets old really fast, probably has something to do with his wife being in gotham no? dont know much about Margot Robbie not sure she would make a good harley though. lets hope they pull it of. jared is going to be interesting to se, could be good.
Green Lantern was meant to be black but no they gave it to a white guy so i think its only fair that the human torch will be black and deadshot will also be black lol
No John stewart who is also a green lantern is black. THis is the problem I and most others have. We have no problem with black characters its when they use a black actor to play a white character. Its not true to source material and it panders to the pc crowd. I would LOVE to see Will smith play John Stewart the green lantern or black manta in the dc universe or even Black Panther or Luke Cage in the marvel universe.Hollywood needs to pander to their audience and I can guanrandamntee you there is black comic book fans out there who are just as pissed off as the white ones. Will can act its fact. Go and watch the pursuit of happiness. But floyd lautner has always been white in the comics. STOP CHANGING CANNON TO SUIT YOUR NOBLE BUT MISGUIDED IDEALS.
The woman who always voice Amanda W. in the animations. Get her! Plllleeeeeaaaasssseeee!
CCH Pounder is her name. She was in The Shield. It’s the show that only a small group of people watched, yet it’s the same show that was bitten off time & time again.
Viola Davis please.
I absolutely HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE Oprah the person, brand and influence.
So yeah, please make her Amanda Waller, WB. She’s perfect for the role.
One ?….why? I mean other than the fact that she is rich & I personally think that the majority of rich people(multi-millionaires & beyond) r crooks. Why do u hate her?
overall the cast seems spot on (as they can get away with having Smith under Deadshot’s mask.. both Deathstroke could have been another character they could have used who I believe also spent time in the SS)
Leto as the Joker I think might be the most interesting choice, will be interesting to see how he portrays arguably one of the most complex villains in the comic world.
Sounds like The Dirty Dozen a half century on!!! (Someone should actually do a remake of that!). Wicked cast!
I don’t how is going to be shaped up finally, but in my narrow mind I can’t picture anyone else better than Sharlto as joker. A very weird and hopefully successful experiment could have been Adrien Brody for the role of Joker. If you watch him closely, he is very closely related to body behavior and mannerisms of Joker or seems to have the weird flexibility to go right there. Kevin spacey is Lex Luther for me no matter what anyone has to say. And was watching ” Into the storm ” last night and I am so shocked how Hollywood ( WB more precisely ) could pass on Richard Armitage for Batman even if they were looking for a more mature one. Even Josh pence looked such a nice choice for batman if WB wanted a still younger one. But Ben affleck,! Man they totally ruined it. Really.
But I may be proven wrong. Who knows? Although Heath ledger’s joker is a very very tough call to exceed , no one can claim that can remain the best Joker portray forever. Though it’s definitely one of my most performances of Hollywood ever.
Will Smith ? What a joke.
Who cares. It will be rated PG 13 for the diaper audience. And will be completely void of quality cause will smith is in it.
Isn’t deadshot white?
Lol! I hope u say that about all the inaccuracies in Hollywood films due to a changing of race in a character (@ least this is a fictional character). If not, u should look inside urself & try to find out why that is….& be honest.
Why are models being casted in acting roles? Why wasn’t it cast to a real actress? Tom Hardy is the only good point in this casting choice.
HOOOOEEEELLLLLLEEEE F**K talk about heavy hittas damn I can’t wait for 2016
Jared Leto as The Joker..YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!! I like the guy but seriously him as the Joker is a no. I can’t see him as the Joker. Everyone else is fine. I could careless about Will Smith being Deadshot. Maybe Jai would have suited the role better but whatever. But Jared Leto shouldn’t have been casted. Some else could have fitted the role better.
What is the wrong with some of you? Why all the negativity about individuals playing varying roles. Isn’t all this based on a comic strip! Also, aren’t these suppose to be actors! What difference does it makes what color their skin is? The problem with many of you guys, is you are biased by your ingrained racism. You have been conditioned to think a person got to have a particular color of skin, to portray a particular actor, or character. Think about this! It is called acting for a reason.
Maetin obviously cares & so do so many others(judging from the comments here) who have ingrained racism & will never cop to it. Racists & cowards are birds of the same feather. Morgan Freeman who is African-American played “Red” in Shawshank, a roll that was written for a Caucasian-American in the book. I never heard anyone say anything bad about that movie b/c of the change of race. Go figure.
So we are talking about Deadshot (Will Smith) we don’t care what color he is but the fact they put Will Smith in here as Deadshot is preposterous…. Could I be wrong? sure but from what little I know about Deadshot I do not think Will Smith could play that very well!!!
with your argument, shouldn’t there be a white Othello next time? or maybe a white Blade? No, cause those character’s are defined as what they are. In publication history Deadshot is white and should remain so. Also Wil Smith is a terrible actor.
Come on, people. Quit being racist. Will Smith being black is no reason for him not to be cast in the Suicide Squad movie.
However, Will Smith being a horrible actor IS a good reason for him not to be cast in the Suicide Squad movie.
´A chance at redemption by the government´ is an oxymoronic-phrase.
They are fictional characters you idiot! If an actor displays the right character traits and plays the role well, why should it matter what colour their skin is? In the case of a biopic, of course race matters but this situation doesn’t warrant it!
Then they should have a chines man portray Super Mario. Shut up you genocidal freak.
I second that! No one is ever going to listen to u b/c ur ignorant.
Please learn to spell Chinese before you open your mouth with some racist stuff.
What the hell is hollywoods obsession with black actors playing white characters? And Will Smith as deadshot is bullsh!t why couldnt they have just cast him as black manta? He is the only bad casting choice here with that character. I like will smith but ffs why? WHY? At least they got an australian to play an aussie character
Tom Hardy already plays a character in Batman!!!!!! He already is bane!!!
Also, remember that Chris Evans was the Human Torch in two Fantastic Four movies before finding greater success as Captain America in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe.
Yeah, but that doesn’t count because the FF movies were so bad that we forgot he was in them.
Yeah, but the Nolan trilogy is its own standalone saga. There’s no continuity before or after it.
I agree!
F yeah!
If they’d take 10% of what they’re investing in this cast on a real writer, they’d get a movie 10x better than any of the recent DC films. Sadly they have managed to convince me that’s not within their milieu.
Never been a Will Smith fan. His wisecracks are absolutely annoying. He ruined I, Robot with his smug wisecracks!
Oprah just said in an interview recently that she was totally open to playing an evil character and she wasn’t worried about it affecting her brand at all. This makes me think she’s been discussing this. Shed love to work with will Smith and Jared leto. Can u imagine?
WooHoo Unstoppable cast, go get’em guys. I am very happy for all of you!
Jared Leto as The Joker? WILL SMITH AS DEADSHOT?!?!
What is this nonsense
Margot Robbie and Cara Delevingne are perfect choices, but Tom Hardy could of been someone different, and if anything Jai Courtney should of been Deadshot. Smith as Deadshot is odd, the dude should of been either Rick Flagg or the Unknown Soldier. When Heath Ledger got the role for the Joker it was mixed, the results ended with a flip of a coin (though I still prefer Mark Hamill or Jack Nicholson as a better Joker), pretty boy Leto is going to be like a six-sided die, its going to end up being another Johnny Depp Mad Hatter.
One word… Hollywood:(
Leto has the chops for this, not so sure about Smith. Oprah as Waller is unexpected ( if it happens ) and shows DC might be taking this as serious as we all wished they would have the past decade while we enjoyed Marvel movies.
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Are you kidding me? Clearly CCH Pounder should be Amanda Waller. The character could’ve been inspired by her it’s such a perfect fit.
Jesus look-a-like as Joker? Can’t picture it right now. I think Will Smith can do a good Deadshot so long as he’s not doing his usual screaming stuff :P
This is a perfect and amazing list. So excited now.
These are amazing actors all playing awesome parts! Everyone always has something to say about everything comic book movies do…
CCH Pounder IS Amanda Waller. The voice (literally) and the look.
@SAMURAI36 is a super DC fanboy pay him no mine.
Yes, because we should rather listen to the super Marvel fanboy?
How’s about we pay no *minD* to the guy that can’t even spell a simple 4-letter word?
I have always thought Rhys Wakefield would make a great Joker. He plays a good psycho and has the smile for it!
You’ve got to be frickin kidding me. Way to screw up another comic book flick. Will Smith? the whole casting gig is daft and you should feel bad.
Wanda Sykes should be Amanda Waller
I wish Jack Huston, who played Richard Harrow in Boardwalk Empire would be cast for Deadshot.
Jesus. I hope joker is not comicy and mentally tortures people and kills. Dead shot better not have a patch now that will smith is playing the role. Fuck Tsa and kill me at Rno gate b8
The Joker is comicy, mentally/physically tortures people and kills people in the comics; he’s not exactly a ray of sunshine. So, if that’s how he’s portrayed it would be accurate to the DC canon.
His name is literally the JOKER. Of course he’ll be comicy. The dude is a clown!
Uh, of course the Joker is gonna be comicy in this movie, I think WB made the point clear that Suicide Squad is DC’s answer to Marvel’s GOTG.
The only one properly cast was Margot Robbie. She will make a super hot Harley. Smith and Leto need to exit stage left. Hey let’s cast Tom Hardy as a different character in each DC movie. This obviously worked for Ryan Reynolds and Chris Evans.
Harley needs more than hot, the character is rather complex she is complex enough to stand by Joker (one of the most complex in comics). Her attitude and personality aren’t very easy to copy, she is very smart, looney, funny and down right vicious at the same time while still being a sympathetic and likable character.
To say that Robbie was properly cast mainly because “she will make a super hot Harley” is ridiculous and your reasoning is weak. Reynolds was a decent actor who got stuck with a shitty script. And if you honestly don’t think Evans is successful now as Captain America, you’re probably blind.
Gotta love how the DC haters have come out to spew negativity the first chance they get.
WB/DC is still trying to play catch up to Marvel. This is now their attempt at a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. They’ve been trying to make a Justice League movie for the last 7 years…..been trying to make Wonderwoman and Flash movies even longer than that. This grand plan of theirs to make all these movies without first building a real foundation for their attempted cinematic universe (since they’ve ditched the Dark Knight movies and advanced time to an older Batman, those movies don’t count) is either going to make them a boatload of movie or fail miserably. Either way, it will be interesting to see what happens. 10 mediocre movies aren’t going to accomplish much so hopefully they will be focused on quality and not just on quantity.
“WB/DC is still trying to play catch up to Marvel”
Uh, they’ve barely started? Like they’re only one movie in. A lot can happen between BvS and onward, so give them a break.
That’s kind of the point. It should have started with Green Lantern but they messed it up. And as long as we keep hearing (from the people in DC/WB, no less) that this movie is DC’s answer to that movie by Marvel, then DC is simply playing catch up instead of focusing on how their franchise can stand on its own regardless of what Marvel does.
I wouldn’t even put DC in the same category as Marvel when it comes to movies, and I’m a DC fan (which is quickly beginning to fade). There’s no overall plan to what they’re doing, other than to cash in on the current superhero hype. Rather than to focus on quality they’re opting for the Sony route and doing quantity (even though the last X-men movie had it’s moments). All this is doing is causing viewer fatigue with regard to superhero films, and double casting the same actor in two movies will add confusion to that which is about as similar to DC comics right now as you can get (even though I’m sure Tom Hardy will be understandable vocally in this film).
DC needs to get a plan. Not just in movies, but an overall plan other than “move closer to WB studios, that’ll make everything better.”
Let’s hope they give Guilermo Del Toro the green light for Justice League Dark. Maybe he can save their film department.
Um NO just NO! What a disappointment! Get smart and recast!!
Wow, I can’t even begin to tell you how wrong you are.
1) SS was being discussed as a film (& before that, a TV show) long before GOTG was even thought about.
2) If SS was comparable to anything from Marvel, it’d be the Thunderbolts, not GOTG.
3) DC has already stated (numerous times) that they don’t intend to follow Marvel’s formula. Therefore, DC doesn’t need to make a trilogy of Supes, Batman & WW in order to establish those characters, the way Marvel needed to establish Cap, Thor & IM, all of whole were unknowns prior to their respective trilogies of films. If you don’t know who SM, BM & WW are by now, then that’s your own fault, no one else’s.
4) The reality is, it’s Marvel that has played catch up to DC, not vice versa. DC has been putting out multimedia product for DECADES (almost a century), while Marvel was no where to be seen. But now, all of a sudden, despite a string of bad movies (FF? GR? Punisher?) Marvel decides to come up with a “Cinematic Universe”, & now people wanna act like they are the pioneers of all of this.
As history has proven, even with this stuff, DC doesn’t have to be first, they just have to be better.
In the meantime, DC is thinking outside the box, by giving us their iconic villains in one movie. What villains has Marvel given us so far? Oh that’s right, just Loki, after 8 years, & almost a dozen movies.
For all your attempts at being a comics historian, your “facts” are atrocious.
First, why are you naming Flash & Hellboy as belong to Marvel? The former is DC, & the latter is Dark Horse.
Next, you ran off Marvel’s history, but left out a HUGE chunk of DC’s. So now, let me educate you, on why DC has held the crown for years.
DC has been in multimedia since the 30’s, beginning with the Superman radio shows. Fast forward to the 40’s, & we get numerous Superman showings, both live & animated. Where was Marvel in this?
Fast forward to the 60’s & 70’s: we have:
–WW (lasted for 5 seasons)
–Batman (4 seasons)
–Shazam (3 seasons)
–Isis (2 seasons)
Now, what did Marvel have at the time?
— Spider-Man (2 seasons)
— Hulk (5 seasons, the most successful show Marvel has EVER had)
Fast forward to the 80’s & 90’s, DC had:
–Superboy (4 seasons)
— Swamp Thing (3 seasons)
–Lois & Clark (4 seasons)
I’m not even gonna count the one-season shows like the first Flash show, BOP, Human Target, etc from DC.
What did Marvel have? Nothing whatsoever in the 80’s, & Night Man, the Blade TV show, and Mutant X in the 90’s. Do you REALLY wanna count those???
Fast forward to the 200’s, & DC has:
— Smallville (10 FUCKING SEASONS!!!)
–Arrow
–Flash
–Gotham
–Constantine
And should I even mention the 12 other shows, spread across 7 different networks that DC has coming over the next 2 years?
Meanwhile, all Marvel has, is SHIELD, which struggled thru its first season, & let’s be honest, if it weren’t for it being connected to the MCU (& iron its parent network of ABC) it would have been cancelled.
Now, for movies, I like how you omitted more than half of DC’s catalog to attempt to paint Marvel as being ahead of the game.
–Swamp Thing
–Steel
–Cat Woman
–Constantine
–Watchmen
–Jonah Hex
Not to emotion the Vertigo stuff, like:
–Road To Perdition
–history of Violence
–V for Vendetta
–Red 1&2
–the Losers
DC has been steadily making films since the 50’s, while Marvel just started in the 90’s.
Now, let’s move onto animation, shall we?
In the 30’s thru 50’s:
–Numerous showings of Superman
In the 60’s:
— Superboy (3 seasons)
–Aquaman (2 seasons)
–BM/SM (2 seasons)
What did Marvel have?
–FF (1 season)
In the 70’s:
— Super Friends (13 FUCKING SEASONS!!)
— Shazam (2 seasons)
–Plastic Man (3 seasons)
–Batman (6 seasons)
What did Marvel have?
–Spider Woman (1 season)
–Spider Man (3 seasons)
In the 80’s, DC had:
–super Friends still going strong
–Superman (2 seasons)
marvel just started to make their presence known:
— 2 Spider Man Shows (2 seasons a piece)
–Hulk (2 seasons)
In the 90’s, DC had:
–DCAU (ran collectively for nearly a decade)
marvel had:
–X-men (5 seasons)
–Spider Man (4 seasons)
–IM/FF (2 seasons)
–Hulk (1 season)
In the 2000’s, DC had:
–DCAU still going strong
–Static Shock (4 seasons)
–Teen Titans (4 seasons)
–LOSH (3 seasons)
–GL (2 seasons)
— Young Justice (2 seasons)
–Batman Brave & Bold (3 seasons)
And that’s not counting the DOZENS of animated movies DC has, & still continues to put out nonstop.
In the meantime, Marvel has:
–Spider man (3 seasons)
–FF (4 seasons)
–IM (3 seasons)
–Avengers (3 seasons)
–Hulk Smash (2 seasons)
And a puddly showing of animated movies.
If you can’t see that DC is the dominant force, & that Marvel is just now playing catch-up according to the REAL facts (not that nonsense that you listed, all of which can be referenced with a Wiki search), then I don’t know what to tell you.
Thanx for the history lesson, but I’m familiar with all if that. I know how the Marvel characters are divided up between the different studios.
None of that negates my point, which is (if you bothered to actually read what I said), prior to the creation of the “MCU”, this is all that Marvel had to work with, whether they liked or vetted it or not. And they (the comics publishing part of the company, at least) did try to endorse those films (along with what little other multimedia they had out), because that was all they had at the time. The publishers tried their best to promote those films, both in the books (changing the looks of various characters to look like the film versions, like Snipes as Blade, & then later on Sticky Fingaz, for instance.
But even still, the general public has no clue about these divisions, nor do most movie-goers even care. ALL of these films, whether from Fox, Sony or Disney have that big, red “MARVEL” logo on them at the beginning of the films.
That being said, I like how you wanna draw the divisions between the studios, & then lump all of these “villains” together, like they are all a part of the same movie “universe”. Especially after trying to “correct” me about all this.
So here is my statement (yet AGAIN): the MCU has had exactly ONE villain, that they’ve thoroughly explored in the (pardon me) 6 years of this shared universe. And that happens to be Loki. LMAO, the Dark Elves? Nobody knows a thing about them. They are basically the villain of the week. Same with Red Skull & Hydra. And I love how you count Thanos, who has had all of 5 minutes of screen time in six years.
Besides, Magneto is an X-Man now, & has been for years. Same with Sabertooth. Most of Marvel’s villains end up being (anti)heroes.
Tone continued…..
and marvel villains ? its been 6 years,not 8! sicne Marvel has been doing films. And marvel property wise,we have Doc Ock,THe Lizard,Green Goblin,Sandman(getting his own film too soon), Venom(Carnagei s getting its own film in 2017), Magneto, Sebastian Shaw, Dark Phoenix, Stryker, Sabretooth, Sentinels, Apocalypse, Dr. Doom, Galactus/Silver Surfer combo, Ultron, Thanos!, Loki, Dark Elves, Red Skull, Hydra/Winter Soldier – plenty of iconic memorable villains imho. DC has substantially less so far. So yeah. If youre saying FF,GR etc are Marvel films(which they aint),then you cant be saying its been only 6 years,cause these came before then.contradicting yourself.
you seem clueless on one thing. FF,GR,Punisher – Marvel had nothing to do with these,these are Fox properties,Marvel had no say in scripting or anything else,same goes for X-men. Marvel was forced to sell rights to most of its characters in late 90s,due to a dispute with Avi Arad(?) and some other factors,to keep their comic book business ,they had to seel movie rights.Back then nobody wanted IM,Cap,Hulk,Thor,Flash and other lesser known characters. Marvel finally got enough cash to make Iron Man and Hulk in 2008,and after Iron Man 2 in 2010 Disney bought Marvel Studios,and now Disney is pulling the shots,but Marvel has creative input still obviously. (much like Pixar house is allowed its own thing) . Marvel had its Spider-Man and Hulk tv shows in the 70s, DC had Batman in the 60s.Dc had Superman in 78,Batman in 89. But ever since the Schumacher 95′ Batman film ,Marvel properties have been the go-to! for studios. Blade injected hope in 98 that quality could be done,and X-men cemented that in 2000,Blade is considered the rejuvenator and X-men the kick-starter of the modern era superhero! Spidey and Blade 2 in 2002. Daredevil, X2, Hulk in 03. Spidey 2, Hellboy, Punisher, Catwoman, Blade 3 in 2004. ,Electra, FF in 2005. And where was DC in all this ? It was with Batman again in 05,and took X-men director to make a lackluster Superman in 06. Meanwhile,there was X3, Ghost Rider, Spidey 3 & FF2 in 07. 08 Marvel stepped in, brought the MCU. So while I agree that DC has tried,with Superman in 06 and Green Lantern in 2011,and they had 2 rivals in FOX and Sony who both had Marvel property so outnumbered in quantity,then aside from Nolans Batman and New Supes Warner Bros hasn’t done anything notworthy since the 80s.
I absolutely agree. Jared Leto? The man is a moron and he’s playing the Joker?? Total c**k up
Obviously you haven’t watched any of Jared’s movies nor did you ever heard about him. So before you judge him as a person (you don’t even know him) and as an actor, just remember he has an Oscar after 6 years of not being on the screen which is enough proof how underrated actors like Jared, are ten times more talented than the rest of the Hollywood who try hard.
Okay, first off; Jared Leto, is not gay. And don’t criticize an actor for playing an outstanding role as a transgendered woman, so wouldn’t be gay in this scenario. And if your talking about the his role in Alexander, then that’s just degrading. Learn your history, the ancient Greeks, Romans, etc all viewed . homosexuality as normal. And frankly speaking Heath could’ve been considered the “gay” Joker for his outstanding role in Brokeback Mountain. And if your just talking about him personally, who the fuck cares what someone’s sexual preferences are when it has nothing to do with acting, stop living in the past. So before you criticize an actor/ actress on one minor thing like this, why don’t you actually learn some of their other roles from the past, and not just judge them from one or two movie’s, that were great success’ in and of themselves. Furthermore from how different all of his portraits have been in the past, there’s no doubt that he’ll make an amazing Joker whether it be a darker Heath Ledger style of one, or a more traditional one. He wouldn’t have taken the part if he wasn’t serious about doing the role with justice to it, bottom line.
Agreed! And that’s the TRUTH, no one can handle the TRUTH; fact is we have a Hulk, well the adults have an Oscar! [Heath Ledger] Only 75 years in the making to truly legitimize the film genre, but hey! Incidentally, does this means that Disney/marvel is chasing WB/DC complete dominance on television w/ the Agents of Shield? No, it’s not a competition, you have the “archetypes” and you have the “knock-off.” There’s kidstuff and the adult themed stuff decades in the making.
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This is not a drill y’all:
Jared Leto – The Joker
Will Smith – Deadshot
Tom Hardy – Rick Flag
Margot Robbie – Harley Quinn
Jai Courtney – Boomerang
Cara Delevingne – Enchantress
Read the full 411 from Variety. And try not to squee too loudly; I’ve already done that for you.
First off non of the female leads are strong actresses. Secondly why must Hollywood constantly cast “model/actors” to play the roles meant for character actors?!
DC fails at virtually every movie they attempt with the exception of batman, in which they have historically cast CHARACTER ACTORS to play lead roles.
BTW I believe the avengers is the ‘oceans eleven’ of comic book movies. Sorry, Marvel has the monopoly on good comic book films, and fyi they also primarily cast character actors.
Box office flop. Sorry DC, you really need some new people on your team.
i want hardy bane
i think they should have the characters they used in Assault on Arkham