Suicide Squad: 12 Last Minute Concerns You Won't Admit

Let's be honest: if you hire Will Smith, you're giving him top billing no matter how stuffed the ensemble. If you hire Margot Robbie, you're doing the same. And adding a character as big as the Joker inherently suggests a certain level of biased focus to his activities.

Quite how the film is going to give enough time to develop the likes of El Diablo, Slipknot, Enchantress, Katana, Killer Croc or any of the other soldiers (possibly including Rick Flag), remains to be seen. Honestly, it looks impossible.

The inevitable answer would be to devolve those characters into narrative tropes or devices: Slipknot the morality tale about escaping, Croc the cautionary tale about trusting wild animals, El Diablo a diluted picture of redemption... You get the picture. If any of them are even remotely well developed, the film would be 8 hours long, and that might be why they look so interesting - so you don't try and pick beneath the surface.