Originally published July 11, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
Warner Bros. and DC were in Hall H today to show off some footage from David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. Check out the description of what was shown below (via ComingSoon).
“It opens with Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller… Waller is talking to the police commissioner saying that they have captured someone and put them away where o one can find them… The footage focused on introducing the characters including Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn who is locked up in a cell in the middle of a large room like Hannibal Lecter with armed guards approaching her… We see her hanging from the ceiling of the cage by ribbons and doing gymnastics when Waller appears on the catwalk above the cell… Harley asks “Are you the devil?”… The footage was shown to the tune of a version of the Bee Gee’s “I started a joke” and we got to see glimpses of many of the cast… Including a lot of great group shots of them finding soldiers… Towards the end of the footage we see [The Joker] in the shadows shirtless with his tattoos… and he is torturing someone (we don’t know who)… saying “I’m not going to kill you… I’m just going to hurt you really really bad”…”
The site also notes that Jared Let’s Joker sounds very similar to Heath Ledger’s version from The Dark Knight. Killer Croc and Captain Boomerang were also in the footage, but neither spoke. They also said that Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn was not as high pitched as the animated version, but she will be the “breakout performance” of the movie.
Suicide Squad hits theaters on August 5th 2016 and sees David Ayer (Fury) directing a cast that includes Will Smith (Focus) as Deadshot, Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) as The Joker, Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) as Captain Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop) as Rick Flagg, Viola Davis (The Help) as Amanda Waller, Cara Delevingne (Paper Towns) as Enchantress, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Thor: The Dark World) as Killer Croc, Ray Olubowale (Resident Evil: Afterlife) as King Shark, Jay Hernandez (Hostel) as El Diablo, Adam Beach (Flags Of Our Fathers) as Slipknot, Jim Parrack (Fury) as Johnny Frost, Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project) as Hugo Strange, newcomer Karen Fukuhara as Katana, and Common (Selma) and Scott Eastwood (The Longest Ride) in as-yet-unconfirmed roles.
