However, David Ayer’sSuicide Squadwas met with overwhelmingly negative reviews.
“It’s another example of the dysfunction of our industry.
I had a very specific take.
They wanted to do it.
There was a knock on the door, and it was the new DC president.
He said, ‘So where are you with the script?’
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I said ‘It’s almost done,’ and he said ‘Can I read it?’
“It was really a father-daughter story with Deadshot and his daughter.”
Warner Bros. seems to have been pushing for a similar tone forSuicide Squad2.
Gavin O’Connor refused the idea, andSuicide Squad2didn’t move forward.
Then, James Gunn wrote and directed a more comedic yet more explicitThe Suicide Squad.
