The new version of The Suicide Squad is a complete reboot that has nothing to do with David Ayer’s movie. This time around, director James Gunn has had the freedom to build a wacky action movie full of villains and bizarre sequences. Also, as the filmmaker revealed in an interview with Collider, the lobby scene starring Harley Quinn is heavily inspired by the video game Suda51’s Lollipop Chainsaw, in which Gunn himself participated as a designer and scriptwriter.
The scene, a massacre in which flowers are also the protagonists, takes the game as a reference from a visual and thematic point of view. “I made a video game called Lollipop Chainsaw with Suda in Japan. I always liked how hearts and pretty little things came out of people mixed with blood. So a lot of that comes from there, from the aesthetic of mixing that horrible gore with the idealized way that Harley sees life. ” According to Gunn, he explored these concepts from the beginning. “They were present from the first draft of the script,” he reveals.
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Suicide Squad could have Superman as a villain
The Man of Steel does not appear in the remake of The Suicide Squad beyond being mentioned. In fact, the character of Idris Elba (Bloodsport) has been sent to jail for firing a kryptonite bullet against the alien superhero. However, James Gunn initially considered giving him much more prominence, this time as the great enemy of the film. Unfortunately, doubts about Henry Cavill’s status as the interpreter of Superman, coupled with the difficulty of inserting the story into DC’s expanded universe, ended up changing his mind.
Lollipop Chainsaw, meanwhile, is a video game set in a mundo postapocalíptico where zombies roam the streets. The game was released on PS3 and Xbox 360.
Source | Collider
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