SUICIDE SQUAD Star Scott Eastwood Reveals Scrapped Plans: "There Was Talk About Making Me Another Character"

Scott Eastwood played GQ Edwards in 2016's Suicide Squad and has revealed that filmmaker David Ayer planned to bring him back to the DCEU as a different character. He also expresses an interest in Batman.

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By JoshWilding - Jan 03, 2025 10:01 AM EST

Filed Under: Suicide Squad

Source: Screen Rant

While Zack Snyder had a very specific five-movie vision for the DCEU, Warner Bros. was eager to deliver its own take on the MCU. As a result, Suicide Squad came along in 2016 to expand a shared world that began with Man of Steel three years earlier.

Ben Affleck's Batman made a cameo appearance in the movie and early plans called for Steppenwolf to be the big bad in place of Incubus. As we're all aware by now, the theatrical cut of Suicide Squad was not the movie David Ayer wanted to release and sequel plans were scrapped until James Gunn came along five years later with The Suicide Squad.

Scott Eastwood played original character GQ Edwards in Suicide Squad and early online theories suggested he could be the DCEU's Steve Trevor. While that didn't pan out, the actor recently told Screen Rant about Ayer's hopes to bring him back as someone else altogether.

"I know that there was talk about making me into another character and coming back," Eastwood confirmed. "It just... David Ayer didn't direct that next film then. I was like, 'Look, let's just see. Let's see what the next thing holds. Is it a cool character? Who is it?' And that never came around because he didn't direct the film, so it was a different movie."

Asked if he could reveal the identity of the character, he added, "No, because they didn't know. They were just talking about who he could come back as, and we could make him somebody and this and that, and they hadn't really landed on any of that."

The Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad seeing the light of day is highly unlikely, particularly with DC Studios moving full steam ahead with the new DCU (and likely desperate to move on from the negativity surrounding the DC Extended Universe).

Eastwood was asked who else in the DCU he'd like to play and singled out a certain Caped Crusader.

"I mean, I think out of the DC universe, I'm definitely a Batman guy. I'm definitely a Batman guy," he teased. "I think he's the most interesting character because he is living double lives that are kind of a little bit more intriguing to me than some of the other ones. Yeah, I don't know. There's something cool about that character."

You can watch our interview with Eastwood - in which he discusses the Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad - below.

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35 Comments

KennKathleen - 1/3/2025, 10:17 AM

Make him Tommy.

MurfDyson - 1/3/2025, 11:20 AM

@KennKathleen - He could actually pull it off

grif - 1/3/2025, 10:28 AM

shit movie

Forthas - 1/3/2025, 10:28 AM

Hmmm! Who could he be? That is...The Question!

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 1:51 PM

@Forthas - And make it based off of the O’Neil/ Cowyn run.

grif - 1/3/2025, 10:29 AM

i will forever hate this movie for its trailer creating the ones we see now with the clicks bangs and action beats to the music in trailers now.

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 1:52 PM

@grif - What don’t you hate, grif?

KennKathleen - 1/3/2025, 5:40 PM

@RolandD -

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 5:57 PM

@KennKathleen - Perfect!

KennKathleen - 1/3/2025, 8:12 PM

@RolandD - 😆, for the record- I love Grif. This site would be lost without his furry pessimism.

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 9:08 PM

@KennKathleen - He’s amusing to be sure. He used to get more shout outs from other users back in the day. Probably people like McGee and Gusto.

slickrickdesigns - 1/3/2025, 10:33 AM

Shows you the mess that was the old DCEU and the poor planning outside of Zack Snyder’s failed vision.

I would’ve liked to have seen what Snyder wanted to do with his JL movies in animated form but that’ll never happen and I don’t believe majority of what “insiders” say was supposed to happen in his story. Maybe he can do a story time special on a podcast one day and reveal the trilogy plans he had. It’ll be way quicker than watching his live action slow motion movies.

TheVisionary25 - 1/3/2025, 10:36 AM

Oh yeah he was in Ayer’s SS , I barely remember that character lol.

Anyway I haven’t seen a lot of Eastwood’s work but the little I have for the most part makes him come across as bland to me…

The only movie I have seen that I enjoyed him in was “Wrath of Man” where he was a bad guy so perhaps he just needs better direction & the right role.

If it’s a hero role in the new DCU , I could see him as perhaps Steve Trevor or Commander/Citizen Steel but if it’s a baddie then maybe Heatwave?,

RedFury - 1/3/2025, 11:26 AM

@TheVisionary25 - I don't want to be too critical, but I think Scott Eastwood is a perfect example of Hollywood nepotism. While he may have something in him under the right direction like you said, I still think he's got as much range as a piece of wood lol. If he wasnt Clint's son, he'd be relegated to B-movies without a doubt.

TheVisionary25 - 1/3/2025, 11:54 AM

@RedFury - perhaps though I know he auditioned for a lot of the roles he got so idk.

Also if you look at his filmography , he’s definitely doing slot of B-movies as of now lol

RedFury - 1/3/2025, 1:08 PM

@TheVisionary25 - lol yeah I think the cred his last name leant him has dropped off compared to when he first came on the scene.

WruceBayne - 1/3/2025, 10:38 AM

I remember when I thought he was secretly Deathstroke. Scott Eastwood being “soldier #4”, just didn’t make sense to me. You could’ve gotten any background actor to play that role.

TheVisionary25 - 1/3/2025, 10:42 AM

@WruceBayne - to be fair , he wasn’t as much of a name back then as he is…

Granted I don’t think he’s a big name now but still , I feel he’s somewhat recognizable

WruceBayne - 1/3/2025, 11:15 AM

@TheVisionary25 - he wasn’t a big name back then but I felt he was on the rise enough to be more than just a throw away soldier.

TheVisionary25 - 1/3/2025, 11:20 AM

@WruceBayne - perhaps.

bkmeijer1 - 1/3/2025, 10:47 AM

If they wanted to make him a certain character, then they should have from the beginning. All this sequelbaiting is what went wrong with the DCEU in it's early days.

GeneralZod - 1/3/2025, 10:49 AM

Dear James Gunn: Cast Scott Eastwood as JONAH HEX.

@joshwilding -- chapeaux getting the Eastwood interview.

TheDpool - 1/3/2025, 11:09 AM

I liked the idea that he was an undercover Dick Grayson.

dracula - 1/3/2025, 11:12 AM

Dont know about Scott as Batman

But Clint would be perfect for old man Bruce in Batman Beyond

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 1:54 PM

@dracula - I think that ship has sailed. He’s 94 years old.

dracula - 1/3/2025, 2:04 PM

@RolandD - well not like Bruce would be getting into much action in batman beyond

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 2:11 PM

@dracula - Okay, he’s way to skinny to have been the Batman. There can be some atrophying of me muscles in old age but not that much. Just my opinion. 😉

LeoAtrox1 - 1/3/2025, 5:52 PM

@RolandD - But that's exactly how he was depicted in the Arrowverse "Crisis" storyline by Kevin Conroy. Body broken down, using an exoskeleton to be able to get around. Conroy was a tall slender guy. Given the abuse the Batman's body would take, it's a realistic possibility that he'd be virtually immobile in his old age.

LeoAtrox1 - 1/3/2025, 5:55 PM

@dracula - Anyway, the idea of Scott playing a Batman in his prime, and crossing over with Clint playing a Batman at the end of his days is an intriguing concept. Kind of like what Kurt and Wyatt Russell did playing the same character in two different decades in "Monarch."

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 6:21 PM

@LeoAtrox1 - Now that would make it interesting.

TheFinestSmack - 1/3/2025, 11:15 AM

Wasn't Chris Pine the DCEU's Steve Trevor?

RolandD - 1/3/2025, 1:55 PM

@TheFinestSmack - Yes, although I wanted him as Hal Jordan.

MurfDyson - 1/3/2025, 11:19 AM

He was my pick for Hal Jordan.
Since that ship has sailed, maybe an older Barry Allen or John Jones

jonedc - 1/3/2025, 2:05 PM

HE IS MY PIC TO PLAY JHONNY BLAZE

HAUSMAN01 - 1/4/2025, 4:26 AM

I could see Gunn casting him as Mr.

Miracle,

FLASH, Oliver

Queen, Firestorm

,or The

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SUICIDE SQUAD Star Scott Eastwood Reveals Scrapped Plans: "There Was Talk About Making Me Another Character"

Scott Eastwood played GQ Edwards in 2016's Suicide Squad and has revealed that filmmaker David Ayer planned to bring him back to the DCEU as a different character. He also expresses an interest in Batman.

SUICIDE SQUAD Director David Ayer Won't Stop Talking About The Ayer Cut: "I Think You Deserve To See It"

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