As well as some heavy-hitters from the comic books, The Suicide Squad looks set to bring a lot of obscure DC Comics villains to the big screen as members of Task Force X. The likes of Polka-Dot Man, Ratcatcher II, and Peacemaker will make their debuts in the movie, but some other huge - and not so huge - names very nearly joined them.
Taking to Twitter over the weekend, James Gunn revealed some of the other names he considered, and it's hard not to be at least a little disappointed we didn't get to see them in action!
Listed in the Tweet below, you'll see Livewire, Punch and Jewelee, Black Spider, Deathstroke, Man-Bat, Plastique, Chemo, KGBeast, Solomon Grundy, Rainbow Creature, Gunhawk, and Knockout. As if that's not enough, Gunn would later reveal that he also considered Killer Frost and Mister Freeze, while he briefly thought about making use of Black Manta.
Gunn has talked about the possibility of returning to the DC Extended Universe for another Suicide Squad movie, so perhaps we'll see him make use of some of these bad guys there instead?
For now, check out his Tweets below:
Some new stills from The Suicide Squad have also been released and you can check those out below:
"Welcome to hell — a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A," reads the synopsis. "Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese."
"Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and- destroy mission with only Colonel Rick Flag on the ground to make them behave...and Amanda Waller’s government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement. And as always, one wrong move and they’re dead (whether at the hands of their opponents, a teammate, or Waller herself). If anyone’s laying down bets, the smart money is against them—all of them."
The Suicide Squad will be released in theaters and on HBO Max on August 6th, 2021.