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Rumour: Suicide Squad undergoing major reshoots to lighten the tone and add more humour

March 31, 2016 by Gary Collinson

One of the several criticisms aimed towards Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice was the film’s dour, gloomy tone, and it seems that Warner Bros. may have taken note, as a rumour from Birth.Movies.Death is suggesting that reshoots are underway on Suicide Squad to inject more humour into the DC supervillain ensemble.

Now, reshoots on big blockbusters are nothing out of the ordinary (in fact, it’s the norm), so it’s certainly not a surprise that Suicide Squad would follow suit. However, according to the site, the latest trailer featured “every joke in the movie”, and so the focus of these – which are described as “tens of millions of dollars big” – is to lighten up the tone with more fun character moments and interactions.

SEE ALSO: Suicide Squad gets an international trailer

Are you happy that we could be getting more humour in Suicide Squad? Does Warner Bros. need to lighten up the DC Extended Universe? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below…

It feels good to be bad…Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

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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, Ben Affleck (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) as Batman, newcomer Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Common (Selma) as Monster T, and Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project) and Scott Eastwood (The Longest Ride) in as-yet-unconfirmed roles.

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Originally published March 31, 2016. Updated November 29, 2022.

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: DC, DC Extended Universe, Suicide Squad

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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