Suicide Squad Casting

The movie that no one gave a shit about when it was first announced, now surprisingly has some really solid casting behind it...huh. So for those of you who don't know, one of the many DC movies being released over this decade is Suicide Squad, a movie all about the villains of the DC universe who now work with the government to do the jobs that will most likely result in them dying, but of course they're supervillains, they never die. And now we have our cast for this ensemble piece.

Will Smith as Deadshot, interesting choice because the last couple of Will Smith films have been total shit and the guy has an ego about being the main character of whatever film he's in so him being part of an ensemble is an interesting choice for him. As for the character of Deadshot, he's not one i've ever found particularly interesting, he's just a generic assassin with a damn good aim. But hopefully Will Smith will be able to bring some life to this character, great choice!

Tom Hardy as Rick Flag. Again, fantastic actor, I mean this will be the second DC Supervillain he's played after Bane, and it's a character I have never even heard of and after a quick google search, he really doesn't look all too interesting, but, again, hopefully Tom Hardy will be able to add something to the role.

Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Hmm, how do I put this? Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! I fucking love this! It's about time Harley Quinn made it to the big screen! And Margot Robbie is a fantastic actor to play her! Just watch Wolf of Wall Street and tell me she doesn't scream Harley Quinn. Great actor, great character, perfect match. But who will be playing her puddin'?

Jared Leto as The Joker. Let's be honest, there is no way in hell they are going to be able to top Heath Ledger as the Joker, their best move would to be to go for the more over the top Joker rather than terrorist and scary-real Joker. And I honestly can't think of anyone better than Jared Leto to play him, he's proven himself as a superb actor, I know he'll be good, just not better than Ledger or Mark Hamill for that matter.

Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang. I've made fun of Captain Boomerang many times, because he's stupid as hell. Boomerangs aren't threatening! I mean a friend of mine told me to watch Assault on Arkham because he's apparently cool in that, but as far as i'm concerned, nothing is cool about Captain Boomerang. And Jai Courtney isn't helping his case, I mean I don't hate the guy like some people do, i've only seen him in Jack Reacher and he was fine in that, but he is just the generic Hollywood guy.

Cara Delevingne as Empress, this is something I have absolutley no opinion on. Haven't seen Cara's work before, no idea who Empress is, as far as I know she's the only member who actually has super powers, so that'll probably make her interesting, hopefully, i dunno.

So those were my thoughts on this casting is for the most part positive, mostly curious, all I can say is this film just became one of my most anticipated films of 2016.

-Danny