Trailer 2015: TRAILER 2016 (Final):

Trailer

2015:

TRAILER 2016 (Final):

HOW HAS THE FILM changed SINCE IT WAS FIRST ANNOUNCED?

(

june 2016)The Perceived Main Characters Shifted

What

may stand out about that initial casting is the make-up of the characters. You have Harley Quinn and

Deadshot

who are basically the team's headliners, as well as the Joker, the movie's key selling point, but then it's a bit of a random selection. And a big chunk of the cast is missing too; El Diablo and Amanda Waller were added in February 2015, while Killer Croc and Katana weren't confirmed until March.

You'd have assumed these later-cast roles would be smaller, but that doesn't seem to be the case. As things have developed the full ensemble nature of the film has become clear and previous "background" cast members (Jay Hernandez and

Adewale

Akinnuoye-Agbaje

in particular) appear much more essential

.

The

Marketing Did A U-Turn

Warner Bros. really didn't want to put the Comic-Con First Look for Suicide Squad online - they'd released Batman V Superman's trailer straight away, but even after it leaked in crappy camera phone quality the studio ummed

and

ahhed

about showing the world its first look at Task Force X.

It now looks like it was actually out of fear of

mis

-selling

the film. The First Look paints Suicide Squad as a dark, intense Dirty Dozen flick, but everything since, from the Blitzing trailers to the garish posters, is selling something very different; a vibrant, blackly comic anti-Avengers that still has a pervasive sense of

fun.

That's quite a change, although you imagine things would have always gone this colourful route had Warner's hand not been forced - the First Look was released when the film was still shooting, before the bright CG augmentation could be done. Let that be a lesson about how leak-heavy SDCC is.

The Reshoots

because

the hype machine needs feeding, whenever an anticipated movie has reshoots, it's headline news with rumours of disaster or major change-ups. The word around Suicide Squad's lengthy reshoots was that it was to bring the movie more in-line with the tone of those trailers; allegedly all the jokes were in the Bohemian Rhapsody one and Warner were desperate to give the fans more. There's also the suggestion is was dealing with predicted Batman V Superman fallout (they were planned before that film hit, but the studio clearly knew which way the tide was going).

Now it's important to remember we can't take any of this speculation as gospel. Similar sources claimed there was a "no jokes" rule in the DCEU, something Batman V Superman proved wrong, and there's about five different reasons for Rogue One's recent reshoots. However, while everything said about the reshoots probably isn't true (the Blitz trailer, released during the reshoots, had plenty of new jokes), their scale suggests there's been some changes to the film.

What The critics said (pre-release)

http://

www.vulture.com/2016/08/review-suicide-squad-is-deathly-unentertaining.html

http://

www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/08/suicide-squad-box-office-reviews/495515/

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/suicide_squad_2016

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www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/07/suicide-squad-review-bad-film-margot-robbie-jared-leto

WHAT THE PRE-RELEASE PREDICTIONS WERE

http

://www.forbes.com/sites/markhughes/2016/07/29/suicide-squad-will-break-new-ground-and-box-office-records/#396e0e067990

http://pro.boxoffice.com/long-range-forecast-suicide-squad-founder-nine-lives

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http://variety.com/2016/film/box-office/box-office-suicide-squad-jason-bourne-1201814398

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Post-release

http://

www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/suicide-squad-sets-box-office-record-in-the-us-despite-poor-reviews-a3314536.html

http

://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2016/08/06/forget-the-critics-suicide-squad-isnt-terrible-say-audiences---a

/

https://

www.theguardian.com/film/2016/aug/07/box-office-report-suicide-squad-nine-lives

Why?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/08/29/suicide-squad-had-a-secret-box-office-weapon-spoiler-it-was-will-smith/#

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