{"id":15036,"date":"2020-08-22T13:25:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=15036"},"modified":"2020-08-24T16:09:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T23:09:52","slug":"the-suicide-squad-dc-fandome-panel-recap-first-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/the-suicide-squad-dc-fandome-panel-recap-first-look\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Suicide Squad’ DC FanDome Panel Recap: First Footage Has Us Pumped"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After the Wonder Woman 1984<\/em> panel<\/a> kicking things off for DC FanDome, James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad<\/a><\/em> was the second big movie panel of the day and it delivered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Gunn took a break from the editing bay to introduce the panel and field some fan questions. While we know how much he loves the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> movies, he opened it by saying The Suicide Squad<\/em> is the most fun he’s ever had making a movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He talked about getting into comic books. The first comic he ever read was Jon Ostrander’s first run of Suicide Squad<\/em> from its very first issue. When he was a kid, Gunn loved the movie The Dirty Dozen<\/em> and he felt like the Suicide Squad, a.k.a. Task Force X, was a supervillain version of that movie. He loved the character of Squad handler Amanda Waller, who was so different for the time, a strong woman but also an antihero and not physically the same as everyone else you saw in comics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Responding to another fan question, Gunn said the character he was most excited to write was Harley Quinn. He’s loved her since Paul Dini and Bruce Timm put her Batman: The Animated Series<\/em>. “There’s a chaotic trickster god element to her where she’s always going off in different directions,” he explained. “As a writer, it’s a lot of fun because she always takes you places you don’t realize she’s going to go.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also shared an interesting fact when asked by a fan about the exact number of crashes and explosions in The Suicide Squad<\/em>. Though he couldn’t give an exact number, Gunn did confirm The Suicide Squad<\/em> will have about as many as in any movie ever. In fact, special effects supervisor Dan Sudick, who has worked on a number of Marvel movies, says there are more special effects in The Suicide Squad<\/em> than all of the Marvel movies he’s done combined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gunn then told a story about how he actually met Ostrander, who was on the set. Gunn said he told Ostrander, “I don’t think of this movie so much as an adaptation, I think of this movie as a sequel to your run in the comics books.” His movie has the spirit and lifeblood of the Ostrander books and is a spiritual continuation of that run, but it also introduces new villains and silly, zany characters who were never a part of the Squad in the comics – and one of them was almost Bat-Mite, who Gunn admitted was his favorite Batman villain growing up because he was hilarious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s been quite a bit of speculation about who is playing which characters in the film. It has a giant cast and it seemed like rumors and speculation have been floating around for a year. Gunn shared the official full cast reveal in a fun, comic book style clip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YOU. ARE. NOT. READY. But here we go anyway! Buckle up for the ultimate character reveals from @JamesGunn<\/a>'s #TheSuicideSquad<\/a>. #DCFanDome<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/wje8plaJD3<\/a><\/p>— The Suicide Squad (@SuicideSquadWB) August 22, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>