6 Things We Can Expect From Suicide Squad 2 With Gavin O'Connor As Director

6. None Of The Original Film's Quirky Style Choices

If there's one word that aptly describes Suicide Squad, it's messy. The film was, of course, the product of multiple creative inputs, with director David Ayer favouring a darker, grittier cut and Warner Bros preferring the lighter, flashier version of the movie that a trailer park had cut together.

The text overlays and plentiful music tracks the film used were very clearly remnants of the latter version of the film that had been poorly spliced with Ayer's version, making the movie feel incoherent, and, well... messy.

Warner Bros (and Gavin O'Connor) will be more than aware of the negative feedback this part of the movie received - the flashy, 'style for the sake of style' part, the part Warner Bros favoured but David Ayer would never have included had he been allowed to fully execute his own vision.

The parts of Suicide Squad that people generally liked were the 'Ayer' parts, the smaller character moments that said more than a wall of text ever could - the Deadshot shooting range scene, Diablo's backstory, the bar scene - and Gavin O'Connor, whose films are packed with moments like this, wouldn't want to slap a load of text on the screen and literally spell things out for people.

Or, to put it another way: after the struggle Warner Bros endured behind the scenes of Suicide Squad, they'll let Gavin O'Connor make his own movie, and these quirky stylistic choices are not something he is likely to include.