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James Gunn Presents a Wild and Bloody New Vision for ‘The Suicide Squad’ in 3-Minute Red Band Trailer!
They’re dying to save the world.
Just five short years after the release of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, WB/DC is kinda-sorta hitting the reboot button with James Gunn‘s sequel The Suicide Squad, and the official Red Band trailer has arrived this afternoon. True to Gunn’s on-brand vision, this first look at the movie is loaded with personality, humor and bloody violence, as well as a wide array of oddball characters including King Shark, Weasel, Polka-Dot Man, and John Cena‘s Peacemaker.
Why is this a Red Band trailer, you ask? Well, for starters, King Shark absolutely cannot stop devouring human beings, and in the bloodiest moment from the trailer he literally rips one clean in half. It’s one of the goriest moments we’ve seen in a superhero movie to date, and we can only assume it’s not the only moment in the movie that earned it its hard “R” rating.
This is a *far* different vision of the titular Suicide Squad than the one we got back in 2016, not to mention a far different look at the DC Universe than we’ve seen on screen in recent years. Gunn’s personality is all over this one, and it looks like WB/DC gave him the full creative freedom that Disney/Marvel has given him with his Guardians of the Galaxy movies.
Oh and yes, there’s a kaiju starfish in the movie too. Because of course. It’s great to see DC in the James Gunn Business, that’s for damn sure. Watch the wild new trailer below!
The full ensemble cast for this year’s movie includes Margot Robbie in her third film as Harley Quinn alongside Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior, Steve Agee, Idris Elba, John Cena, Storm Reid, Flula Borg, Nathan Fillion, Peter Capaldi, Pete Davidson, Alice Braga, Sean Gunn, Michael Rooker, Taika Waititi, Joaquín Cosío, Mayling Ng, Juan Diego Botto, Tinashe Kajese, Julio Ruiz and Jennifer Holland.
King Shark, we’ve learned, is voiced by Sylvester Stallone!
WB is currently set to release The Suicide Squad in theaters and HBO Max on August 6.
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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