Warner Bros. offered Gunn his pick of DC characters, several of which he considered before settling on The Suicide Squad.
“I was playing with a few different ideas of a few different DC properties, and this was the one that just took off and I just fell in love with this particular story that we’re telling right now,” Gunn says. “I fell in love with some of the characters and the way we can do it and being able to tell a supervillain film like this in a completely different way.”
Doing things “in a different way” has been a hallmark of Gunn’s career, and he notes that his hope with the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise was “to do a space opera in a totally different way.” That carries over now to The Suicide Squad with the hope to do a different kind of war movie…one that features misfit supervillains as its central figures.
And while the characters in The Suicide Squad may be as obscure, quirky, and offbeat as the ones Gunn played with in his other famous franchise, there’s a key difference to remember.
“I think with the Guardians, you start out sort of knowing that they may have different problems, but at the end of the day, they’re all really good people,” he says. “That isn’t the case with this [movie]. This is a much more complicated story. Some of these characters may end up being good, some of them are definitely not good, and most of them are somewhere in between different shades of grey.”
Gunn has said from the start that his plan has been to treat The Suicide Squad like a war movie. And as in any war movie, you should expect casualties.
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