Suicide Squad: 13 More Brand New Details We Just Learrned

5. Deadshot Has A Batman Fixation

Producer Charles Roven spoke to Collider about Batman's role in the film, and it seems he's the glue that brings all of the characters together. They each have a reason to dislike him (probably mostly to do with the fact that he was behind their incarcerations):

“Well we had to make a choice of do we shoot the movie or don’t we shoot the movie? Do we tell the story we want to tell and block the streets off so the people of Toronto don’t see anything? We just said, ‘OK you’re gonna see what you’re gonna see.’ But he has purpose for what he’s doing, and you couldn’t tell the story of the Suicide Squad—as you mentioned so many of the characters that are in that squad had some interaction with him in order to get into Belle Reve, so you have to deal with that at the very least.”

We now also know that Deadshot has a particular hatred of Batman, as concept art that Collider saw on their set visit showed the walls of Deadshot's prison cell and the slogan "Die Bat". Unless they're doing the Sideshow Bob "THE Bat" joke, that's a pretty firm statement of his emotions.

And it was David Ayer who pushed to have Batman in too, rather than the studio telling him to do it for guaranteed box office boost:

“Look, you apply at a job for a DC Comic movie and it’s like, ‘Come on, let me get the toys, please. Let me get the cool stuff.’ I begged for that. That was really, really something I wanted. There’s a lot of information out there, a lot of false information about how these characters play into the A plot. It’s an incredibly complex story with flashbacks and different convergent storylines and things like that.”

Collider meanwhile confirm that Deadshot will actually spend a "fair amount" of the film in his mask, which is also good news, clearly.