Suicide Squad: 10 Questions We're Asking After The New Trailer
The latest trailer is quite vexing.
This week has been an absolute blitz of major movie trailers, but the one that's most having a ball is the latest look at Suicide Squad.
So far the marketing for the film has been superb, expelling most doubts about Jared Leto's Joker, putting Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn front-and-centre, and generally having a sense of fun that has been sorely lacking in the DC Extended Universe before now.
This latest trailer only continues that. It's much in the same vein as the last one, right down to the unexpected musical choice, but that's not a bad thing if this is what we can expect from the film. It's often said that the bad guys are way more enjoyable to watch, and Suicide Squad looks like proving that and then some.
The new footage gives us perhaps our best look yet at the main players of Task Force X, and has started to drop some more hints as to what we can actually expect from the plot. Naturally, with just under four months still to go before it's released, and the backlash from the spoilery Batman v Superman trailers, they aren't giving too much away.
That only adds to the excitement though, and means we're left with a blitz of questions in need of some answers.
10. The Squad Is Created As A Response To Superman?
"Gentlemen. Ladies. What if Superman had decided to fly down, rip off the roof of the White House, grab the President right outta the Oval Office? Who would've stopped him?"
Right at the very beginning of this trailer, we have an immediate connection between Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman. And Man of Steel. Because Zack Snyder loves to ask that kind of question about Supes, and even if he isn't directing this, it could mean that this film is going to be - in part - trying to answer it.
It could just be a throwaway line, of course, but it does appear as though the Squad is being created as a means of stopping not necessarily Superman, but any super-powered hero/villain. Is that the case? If so, where does this place the film in the timeline, and what does it mean for *that* moment in Batman v Superman?