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Suicide Squad 2016: What Do We Know?

While not a lot is known about director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad project at Warner Bros., the […]
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There have been a lot of rumors swirling around this film for a while, though, and there are some fairly safe assessments that can be made.

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So…what have we got?

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Four A-list stars are in talks to join Suicide Squad as an ensemble, Tsujihara said. That’s led a number of reports to assume it will be an action orgy on the order of The Expendables

Update: Those A-listers are reportedly Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling.

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Rumors have said that Harley Quinn — who leads the team in the comics but who doesn’t appear in Arrow‘s version — may not appear in the Suicide Squad movie. Older rumors had held that Suicide Squad was one of a number of low- to mid-budget actioners based on DC properties that Warners was considering to expand the DC Cinematic Universe with minimal financial risk…but that seems unlikely when you’re told they’re chasing multiple A-list actors for the Squad.

Since the Green Lantern film is a reboot, don’t expect Angela Basset back as Waller, either; is it too much to ask for Pamela Grier or CCH Pounder?