Suicide Squad: 13 More Brand New Details We Just Learrned

12. Scott Eastwood Isn't Nightwing... Or Is He?

About a year ago, Warner Bros invited a number of journalists to the set of Suicide Squad to help feed the marketing machine, and one of the big questions that came up was that of Scott Eastwood's role. According to Collider he "plays a Navy SEAL that’s part of the main mission alongside the Suicide Squad, not a comics character." That was seemingly coroberated by further news from Cinemaxx that he's playing no-one more remarkable than Lt. "GQ" Edwards.

So that's that. He's not Nightwing. Or Deathstroke. Or Poison Ivy.

Except, there might be more to it than that. Comicbook.com spoke with producer Richard Suckle who revealed that he's very important and that he was dropped in and out of the screenplay several times over production:

"He's a very important part of the film and works directly alongside Colonel Flag in the mission. That's kind of really the best way to describe it. David [Ayer] and Scott worked [together] before. Scott was in Fury. He was sort of a last minute piece of casting by a bunch of different actors for these roles. His character was sort of existing, then it wasn't going to exist in the movie, and David wanted to bring him back. It kind of went through a back and forth and Scott just kind of naturally found a place and he had had a pre-existing working relationship [with Ayer]."

Sounds like a jobs for the boys sort of deal. But then Suckle hinted that there's something actually behind GQ, by validating the fact that people are theorising over his true identity:

"No one has guessed right. I've seen some of the guesses [online] and no one has guessed right."

That might actually be out of date now, but the very fact that he's bothered to say more than "there's nothing to guess" says something big about the character. He is a mystery, and that will be enough to spin the rumour mill again.