The director of The Suicide Squad has said that he had “reservations” over one particular sequence in the film. <\/p>
Anyone who\u2019s seen The Suicide Squad<\/a> \u2013 the star-studded DC superhero sequel \u2013 will know that director James Gunn isn\u2019t afraid turn up the violence, with a number of the squad\u2019s villains and their targets dying horrific, gory deaths.<\/p>\n However, Gunn has recently revealed that he was worried he\u2019d gone too far with one of the film\u2019s sequences \u2013 the scene in which Bloodsport (Idris Elba) and Peacemaker (John Cena) competitively massacre a platoon who turn out to be their allies.<\/p>\n \u201cThe stuff with Bloodsport and Peacemaker, I had a lot of reservations about,\u201d he told Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI loved the sequence. It\u2019s funny and it goes to the heart of what the movie is about, for me, in terms of Bloodsport\u2019s journey of starting to learn that being a man and being a leader is not synonymous with being a toxic man, and that path forward to true manhood is through vulnerability.<\/p> \u201cThat [sequence] is a big part of that \u2013 just a big contest between two people. But even watching it the other night in the [cinema], that\u2019s the one place I go \u2018holy shit, we pushed it far<\/em>\u2018 \u2013 like, it\u2019s at the edge of where we could go with that.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that some Warner Bros executives were also worried about the sequence and so he added an extra line of dialogue for Viola Davis\u2019 team boss Amanda Waller to water down the impact of their killings.<\/p>\n \u201cI think that\u2019s when I added Amanda Waller explicitly [telling] them to go into the camp and kill everyone. So they are following her orders, and she is in a way the antagonist in the film.\u201d<\/p>\n The film, which acts as a standalone sequel to 2016\u2019s Suicide Squad, also stars Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Sylvester Stallone, David Dastmalchian and Daniela Melchior as members of the titular squad, who\u2019re sent on a mission to destroy a laboratory in Corto Maltese that is conducting experiments on Starro the Conqueror.<\/p>\n You can check out our full The Suicide Squad review<\/a> to see what we thought of the film, or check out our guide to the post-credits scenes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The director of The Suicide Squad has said that he had “reservations” over one particular sequence in the film. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3122,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/james-gunn-reveals-the-suicide-squad-scene-he-worried-went-too-far.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/james-gunn-reveals-the-suicide-squad-scene-he-worried-went-too-far-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/james-gunn-reveals-the-suicide-squad-scene-he-worried-went-too-far-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/james-gunn-reveals-the-suicide-squad-scene-he-worried-went-too-far.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/james-gunn-reveals-the-suicide-squad-scene-he-worried-went-too-far.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/james-gunn-reveals-the-suicide-squad-scene-he-worried-went-too-far.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/james-gunn-reveals-the-suicide-squad-scene-he-worried-went-too-far.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The director of The Suicide Squad has said that he had \"reservations\" over one particular sequence in the film.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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