Knight Model’s Suicide Squad Revealed In Full
September 10, 2016 by brennon
We've had a few teasers over the past few days for The Suicide Squad from Knight Models for The Batman Miniatures Game and now the whole crew has been revealed...
The new movie version of Harley Quinn, Killer Croc and Katana have now been shown off and they're looking very cool. In fact we reckon that Katana is probably the best looking of the bunch in an awesome stance.
What do you think?
"...we reckon that Katana is probably the best looking of the bunch in an awesome stance"
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Full movie Suicide Squad is looking really good.
Nice, my favorite would either be Deadshot or Slipknot and now that they are saying this is one of the crews in the box we can safely assume it will be a 2 player starter box and after seeing the Joker henchman it is very likely that the other crew is Joker + henchman.
Bad movie, great minis.
I’m with you on this one.
It still was a better love story than Twilight 😉
That said, terminal Syphilis infection is also a better love story than Twilight… 😉
‘Terminal Syphillis Infection’? Is that a Statham movie?
Given his cinematic output over recent years, probably.
Doesn’t Harley Quinn look fat when compared to the movie version ?
Why do they include a character who merely existed to show the lethal punishment option ?
now would you say that to her face?
A very nice rendition of the cinematic characters in model form. There is plenty of detail, and they seem to work as a ready made sub-faction for the broader game. A rather neat little tie-in. As for the movie itself, it was something of a mixed bag for me, though to be fair most of its problems were problems with the broader genre of comic book and ‘summer event’ movies, specifically a somewhat generic plot line (mass produced scary sky portals! Every bad guy needs one!) and a weak antagonist (though if you view the movie differently, and think of… Read more »
To be fair to David Ayer, I don’t think what we saw was his movie. It may be that his movie wasn’t very good, we’ll probably never know, but I wouldn’t blame him for the mess the final product became. That’s on the studio for getting another group of people to re-shoot scenes and re-cut the movie.
Also on that topic, and directly pertinent to this, I’m told by a friend (yes, a friend, so take it for what you will) who works in the industry, that these studio franchise movies often make major changes in post-production without the involvement of the director, who can’t then take his or her name off the movie if they don’t like the final cut. The most recent Fantastic Four movie is a good example.
I had heard that editing shenanigans on a par with those that bedeviled BvS might have befallen Suicide Squad as well. I wonder why Ayer has remained so quiet on the topic, assuming that this is the case? I suppose he is just trying to be loyal to the cast and stand by the finished product warts and all, though in his place (and if I actually had any talent at all) I would have been outraged to have my creative vision chopped into pieces after the fact, both on my own behalf and on behalf of the actors who… Read more »
I don’t know if this applies in this particular instance, but I’m told that the director can’t usually take his name off the final cut with these franchise movies. The studio have a lot of control over the final cut and the director has to live with it. It’s one of the reasons that the likes of David Ayers and not James Cameron do these movies.
I see your point @redben – the money men (or money women) get what they want in most cases, even when that actually harms the bottom line when all is said and done. It can’t be an easy pill for the director to swallow, but if you don’t have the pull to do anything about it you just have to cut your cloth as best you may.
I’m pretty sure that the decision to include major reshoots was done by management with practically zero input from the director. I doubt he had the motivation to tell them to stick it where the sun don’t shine because when all is said and done this is just another job that pays the rent. There are very few director/producers with the money and reputation to force their vision onto celluloid (and that isn’t always a good thing either …) It’s a shame really, because the idea of a comic book equivalent of the Dirty Dozen with characters like Harley Quinn… Read more »
“It was the negative reviews of BvS that scared WB into ‘fixing’ stuff that may not have been broken to begin with.”
The impression I’ve gotten is that it was one part that, and one part the success of Deadpool, which seemed to push the studio into wanting the movie to be something other than it was. Rogue One seems to have undergone a similar process, hopefully with a better final result.
oh god Deadpool.
That was one seriously funny movie. If they wanted to match that and had the disaster that was BvS then the executive meddling makes even more sense.
The attempts at ‘funny’ moments in Suicide Squad do kind of hint at that when I think about it.
To be fair @limburger, Amanda Waller pretty much is that ruthless in the comics as well (she is nick-named ‘the Wall’ because she is so uncompromising, after all). In many ways, she was the true villain of the movie – her misguided attempt to turn Enchantress into a tool of US policy (and a means to pursue Waller’s own personal advancement) set the events of the movie in motion – and while that is not usually the case in the comics, she is always ruthless, manipulative and more than happy to kill people she considers disposable (pretty much everyone other… Read more »
Nice mini`s, they will make a nice present for my son in December.
nice figures great paint job.
i still prefer the comic book versions!!
I’m glad to see these figures from the movie and I’ll definitely get a set. I went to see this at the cinema with no expectations of what it would be like and was plesantly surprised. I don’t bother with reading any online speculation or spoilers about movies before release, nor do I read any reviews before I’ve seen a film. Increasingly this seems like the best policy as all too often I hear comments from my friends who really ought to be pleased by seeing something on the big screen who have had the experience ruined for them by… Read more »
Are you suggesting that anyone who thought it was a bad movie was influenced by someone else, and if you ignored everyone else you would enjoy it? I can assure that is not the case for me. The movie is an incoherent mess. Looking into it further just allowed me to understand why it is an incoherent mess, and allowed me to cut the director some slack, instead of blaming him for making an incoherent mess.
The minis look exceptional and the painting is a true piece of art. It makes me wish I could match that quality of painting.
As for the movie they are based on, I think many have said what I was thinking already above. I had the hype and interest to be a great movie, yet ended up being just average. Have they not learned yet the key to a great super hero movie is in making a great villain?
The movie is proper cringe but the models look good. Every lad should have a mini Margot Robbie in their lives.
Personally I’d prefer a full-sized Margot Robbie…
KM continues to put out absolutely stunning models. I certainly can’t paint them this well, but even with a mediocre paint job they still look pretty good on the table.