Suicide Squad, First Cast Photo Released

Suicide Squad is easily the most intriguing film for DC to make a movie about, mostly because they've only just started their movie universe and the third film in the franchise is Suicide Squad, a film about criminals performing black ops style tasks for the government, a very risky product to do this early on, I mean Marvel waited until the end of phase 2 before they did their big risk, because of that, it shows DC has a lot of faith in the project and even though I'm more excited for Batman V Superman (Because duh) this is the one i'm most interested in just after that. And now, David Ayer, the director has posted the first official imagine of the Suicide Squad line-up, and here's who we've got (From left to right) Adam Beach as Slipknot, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Cara Delevinge as Enchantress, Joel Kinneman as Rick Flagg, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Will Smith as Deadshot, Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje as Killer Croc and...I'll be honest I have no idea who the guy on the end is.

Now I think it's fair to point out that there are plenty of actors and characters that look ridiculous in the initial photo releases, but actually look a lot better in motion (Quicksilver anyone?), and I think this is one of those cases, because a lot of these guys look ridiculous. Someone on twitter said it best, they don't look like the Suicide Squad, they look like a cosplay of the Suicide Squad, the worst ones being Katana and Killer Croc. Katana looks like her mask is made of cardboard and Killer Croc just looks...bad. And what the hell is with Captain Boomerang's (Still ridiculous character) oversized coat? Jai Courtney looks like he didn't even realise they were taking the photo! And Harley Quinn looks so...minimal, which is depressing because this was their chance to go really fun on with a character who has so many opportunities! But I will say, something perfect with Harley Quinn here is that smile, as soon as i saw that, I thought "Harley Quinn". And Will Smith looks like his hair was photoshopped out and Slipknot is...well he's Slipknot, he's a dumb character to begin with, they did the best they could. Now that's not to say they all look bad, Enchantress i think looks fucking awesome there and Joel Kinneman looks...great!? Who would have thought the 3rd most generic actor ended up looking pretty cool in this picture. And guy on the end looks cool...except for the stupid jacket, but they can get rid of that.

And something else this picture does well is they are all actually in the same room! You'd be surprised how many photoshoots, posters and press released images are the characters separate and then photoshopped in together later, here, they are all clearly in the same room when they took this photo, and that just adds so much to camaraderie of the group, because The Suicide Squad is basically a group of people who don't trust each other, but are forced too.

Nevertheless, while this first image has less than impressed me, I am still very much looking forward to seeing this film and I believe that the characters will look much better in the actual film, not that any of this matters because every comic book fan is opinionated and everything has to be either the greatest thing ever or is instantly the worst thing ever.

-Danny