The Suicide Squad Suits Up For Their Second Trailer
January 20, 2016 by dracs
The second trailer for the upcoming DC Comics film Suicide Squad has been released, introducing us to many of the delightful psychos who will soon be heading to the big screen.
The Suicide Squad is a DC superhero team made up of various villains from the comic book universe. They are sent in by the government to complete tasks and provide them with plausible deniability when (inevitably) stuff goes wrong.
They're a fun line up and this movie is definitely the DC film I am looking forward to the most.
This new trailer has a far livelier, more mad-cap tone than the previous one we've seen. Guns, explosions, one liners, all to the backing track of Queen.
It also gives us a good look at some of the characters and what they can do, introducing us to the more supernatural elements of this world.
This film certainly looks a lot more "comic-booky" than its current DC counterparts.
However, the more lively style of this trailer rather clashes with the dark imagery we're seeing, as well as the more sombre, haunting tone of the first trailer. Perhaps they are trying to encourage fans who are a little tired of everything trying to be super dark that this one is going to have a little more fun, but the result is I have no idea what sort of tone they are going for with this movie.
I also still really don't like the new Joker look.
Giving him tattoos and everything just makes him too human to my mind. But as has been pointed out before, people didn't like Heath Ledger's Joker look when it first showed up, now it's an iconic interpretation of the character.
Fears aside, I am really looking forward to this movie, and this trailer has just furthered my anticipation. I didn't like Man of Steel and don't have much hope for Dawn of Justice, so I'm hoping this will be the DC comic book movie to really make it for me.
Does this trailer have you ready to see the movie? Who was your favourite Joker?
"Guns, explosions, one liners, all to the backing track of Queen."
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Never read the comics or even heard of this before but it sure does look FUN! 😀
Looks awesome!
Well its better than the first, and to be fair this trailer does make them look a bit more cohesive, still wish DC wasn’t ignoring anything done in arrow or flash though. As for the joker i honestly dont mind this look, his style and overall look seems to get reinvented every decade or so anyway, so have no problem with him having tatts and stuff like that, just as long as they keep green hair, white face and purple as his main colours, who are we to say thats not a joker…
I am more than happy for the TV shows and films to be kept separate. Agents of Shield suffers in comparison at times to the high budget spectacle of the Marvel films which they just can’t afford to match on a TV show budget.
Keeping the shows apart allows for things to be scaled to what they can afford to put into episodes from week to week.
Having said all that, Supergirl seems to keep implying that it fits into the Man of Steel world. Maybe.
I think the TV shows and movies should be kept apart as they are doing. Also this film looks awesome
This movie is looking better and better.
Sorry but just can’t get the scene from Life of Brian out of my head… Am I alone in this?
The first trailer didn’t really do anything for me but this one has me interested.. probably because it feels like they are trying to capture some of the Marvel vibe (ala Avengers) to contrast with the ‘darker’ flims they have been putting out. I know plenty of people are tired of that genre now but I’ll definitely be going to see this now!
Should be another great year for comic book movies. This one looks great and action packed filled with interesting characters. Though it may be a bit crunchy for some if they don’t know who all these people are prior to the movie.
I’d highly recommend that people interested in the movie check out the excellent New 52 Suicide Squad comic that this seems largely based on: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZWZ4cem0L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg This volume is pretty good, I’d recommend if your interested in the movie to read it, or get a loan of it. If your a comic fan or fairweather comic fan, and your curious, treat yourself if you have some extra cash. You can read this to get an idea for the movie. It is sort of a mix of tones, but certain charactrers like the Joker, Enchanteress and Killer Croc) aren’t in these volumes.… Read more »
Agreed. I’m only about 7 issues in (I think) but it prepared me for the inevitable “Who the heck is that?” moment I would have had when I watched the trailer 😉
even better:
http://www.amazon.com/Suicide-Squad-Trial-John-Ostrander/dp/1401230059
Using Bohemian rhapsody is fighting a bit dirty, I simply cannot dislike it now.
Still not sold on that joker, good actor though , so he might just pull it off on acting alone.
Couldn’t figure out who or what the antagonist is.
The biggest pull is probably, the fact that it will be the first comic book movie with magic in quite some time.
Am looking forward to it myself, I love good anti-heroes and this one has a lot of them.
awesome! can’t wait
Really looking forward to this and I recommend the comics there alot of fun, plenty of backstabbing, madness and a love sick joker.
@spacefrog Its catching on with you eh? Nice! It is fighting a little dirty heheh. I like the joker because its not like anything we’ve seen before, and seems to be based a little on the Miller version. He also seems more grandiose in scale, larger than life, to me at least. Less a criminal and more a super villain. Everyone is the Antagonist in their own story 😉 The Squad are the good/bad guys. In the comics Deadshot and Harley are the main driving force behind the team, while Waller is just their commander/handler. In the comics her experience… Read more »
@mage Gonna have to check out the new 52 Suicide Squad, been a while since i read any comics, didn’t help that my local comic shop closed down, loved the under a quid crates they had, always random, always a wide selection and often the missing volume id had to find a CBR of…
@nakchak
Don’t get it mixed up with *sigh* ‘New Suicide Squad’ as there was a small reboot of sorts…. I know. Sounds crazy. Go with the one I posted links with and not this one:
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/8/82/New_Suicide_Squad_Vol_1_1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140718203607
This one happens after the one with the ‘New 52’ logo on it and changes in tone and character afterward. I’m not saying its bad, but it is after the one I feel the movie is being inspired by. I haven’t caught up to it yet.
Best of luck! You can order them through Easons too if that makes any difference to you.
@mage cheers for the heads up i swear sometimes they name them so that a percentage of sales is made by mistake and hope that people keep on reading once they realise the mistake…
Why does Leto’s joker remind me of a green haired Marilyn Manson? Still after the eye rollingly bad trailers we’ve got for Batman V Superman this trailer actually has me excited. I hope the movie is as fun as this trailer was.
Joker + Harley Quinn do make for a good pair as a result though. But is this going to be like Stallone’s Judge Dredd where we get to see a masked character wear his mask for a few minutes in the entire movie ? 🙁 6 minutes of trailer, barely a few seconds of him with the mask and a few more with an eyepatch of sorts. Almost makes me wonder if the guy in the mask even is deadshot … In the Avengers they barely gave everyone a bit of screen time and they had the advantage of character… Read more »
Not sure the Joker and Harley Quinn could be categorized as “unknowns”. Jared Leto and Margot Robbie have won quite a few awards these past few years.
Unlike Dredd Deadshot does appear without his mask.
You can’t compare the way they done the avengers and the way they are doing this movie. How can you make solo movies for these characters. They would all end up as batman movies lol these are a load of villians thrown together
@stkelly82 : compared to Smith I’d say they are. Then again … the last guy to play the Joker wasn’t that famous either, or was he ? @dracs : he does ? I only know the name from the Arkham games. @tillzy : In the Avengers they barely have time to introduce 4 characters. And they pretty much rely on you having seen their respective movies (why is that scientist dude important to Thor? How did they get that McGuffin ? etc.). In this movie they’ve got to introduce twice as many people to an audience that is either a… Read more »
LOL this looks brilliant.
I have afeeling I am not going to like it.
Honestly guys, is it a topic for the news feed? It’s not related to miniature gaming or gaming in general at all.
I think it is included because it is related more to the more generalized ‘geek culture’ of which tabletop wargaming is a part. Periodically BoW includes articles like this (alongside its core coverage) for movies, computer games, or other forms of entertainment likely to be of interest to the wargaming community that fall outside the limits of actual wargaming. I don’t see any real harm in it, and it is not as though it happens enough to dilute the focus of the site.
Besides, to make this related to wargaming I simply had to add one sentence:
These will look great as Knight Models miniatures.
@inhumanbookworm – read what @vetruviangeek said above. Couldn’t have put it better myself 🙂
Not a fan of their portrayal of Harley Quinn, and as far as I’m concerned the one, true Joker is still Mark Hamill 😉 Overall, watching this trailer makes me go ‘meh’. Looks like it has the potential to be a fun mindless action flick, but also the potential to be unimpressive; can’t tell which from this trailer. A factor could be my dislike of their take on Harley Quinn and the Joker and another could be because (unless I’m mistaken) it’s part of the Man of Steel continuity. Didn’t particularly like the Man of Steel for various reasons and… Read more »
I refuse to watch trailers for movies I know I’m going to watch, so haven’t seen this one, but just the sight of Harley Quinn peeves me off.
She’s not supposed to be a punk rocker, she’s a jester.
Harley originated in the animated series, and that to me is honestly the best variation that character. That said. That series was an odd gothic “Batverse” all to itself (I really enjoyed it) but I don’t know how you adapt a character that is honestly more from some sort of warped 1940s/50s reality than from anything modern. The series has some Frank Miller notes … etc. but overall it stands alone and is PG’d up for a kids cartoon (though they managed to keep the writing interesting and entertaining for an adult audience). So how you take that character with… Read more »
I just don’t like the look of the joker at all he just look horrible.
@stkelly82 You beat me to it, exactly. They are already big actors, and Leto has been acting for a good while, not to mention fronting a very very big band. @inhumanbookworm Its very relevant considering the amount of card, board and table top games are based on DC properties over the years, as well as video games, and as @vetruviangeek says the geek cultural component. Also, there is a good odds that most of these movie versions of character models will appear in the Batman Miniatures game by Knight models. @lordofuzkulak I am quite fond of Mark Hamill too, but… Read more »
I have enjoyed the MCU films, but that could be down to less familiarity with the source material (I have read more Marvel than DC comics as of late, but that’s been more down to disliking the New52 stuff that I have read than anything else).
@stkelly82 You beat me to it, exactly. They are already big actors, and Leto has been acting for a good while, not to mention fronting a very very big band. @inhumanbookworm Its very relevant considering the amount of card, board and table top games are based on DC properties over the years, as well as video games, and as @vetruviangeek says the geek cultural component. Also, there is a good odds that most of these movie versions of character models will appear in the Batman Miniatures game by Knight models. @lordofuzkulak I am quite fond of Mark Hamill too, but… Read more »