Suicide Squad: Million Dollar Reshoots To Add More 'Fun'
Funny cost money.
If you loved all the jokes in the SuicideSquad trailer, well you’re in for a treat as…oh, that’s all there are. Yes, if
you thought the trailers looked like fun – you know the ones; Bohemian Rhapsody,
quips and Harley Quinn getting all smashy-smashy with a shopfront - well Warner
Bros. agree and have paid for reshoots to add more humour to the final film.
Birth. Movies. Death have quoted an ‘excellentsource’ who, after seeing the enormous positive response to the first trailer,
told the site that pretty much all the jokes were in said trailer, has now said
that re-shoots are happening right now.
And they’re big – tens of millions big to be precise – with the
sole purpose of making the film match it’s trailer.
The publicity departmentshould be high-fiving each other and if anything, it shows how much Warner Bros need this movie to work.
This is only a good thing.
It shows that despite Batman V Superman:
Dawn of Justice’s big box office taking – $501.8 million domestically as we
speak, well you read this – Warner's have listened and by the sounds of it, it
won’t be a series of zingers and quips just shoved in awkwardly, the newly
purchased sense of humour will come organically from character interaction
(because, if anything, this movie should have character in abundance –
basically they are leaning into the crazy).
Just today Jared Leto, who appears as the
now tattooed Joker, spoke of his feelings on playing the character, described to Entertainment Weekly how he still doesn't feel he’s got a handle on the clown prince of crime.
“You just knew you had to do something
different. You had to make it your own. That happens all the time. Whether
you’re a composer working on a piece of music that was written a century ago,
or you’re an actor on stage, reinterpreting a play, it’s very common these
days. Directors take on great works of cinema, actors reinterpret roles, that’s
been going on for a great deal of time. From Scarface to Hamlet. In some ways
it’s really interesting to reinterpret, redefine.
“It a weighty thing to do. But it’s
exciting. The Joker is one of those roles. He was written brilliantly when he
was first shared with the world 75 years ago, or something crazy like that. And
I think I'm just really grateful I had the opportunity.”
There’s so much to explore with these
characters and so much history to play with, it would be mad to paint all that history
into one decidedly dark corner.
If anything all the talk of Suicide Squad
before today’s news was how ‘dark’ the movie was, with /Film pointing out that director David Ayer
reportedly hired an on-set therapist.
As BMD points out, the Justice League is
about to begin shooting soon and this intervention may in fact spread to that
film – and in a movie where Wonder Woman and Superman have zero interactions
with one another – perhaps they’ll be keeping a closer eye on Zack Snyder’s
next project.
Let’s hope these additions aren't
face-saving alterations or a last minute attempt to turn the movie into
something that it is not.
Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice was victim
to its own face saving alterations such as the scenes involving various talking
heads going to great lengths to point out that the on screen carnage was taking
place away from heavily populated areas with increasingly ludicrous results.
While the box office return of Batman V
Superman means Warner Bros can rest a little easier, with its poor performance
with critics and the general negative response from audiences, it doesn't leave
the DCCU on the most stable of foundations; here’s hoping they've gambled on
shoring up those shaky foundations.