{"id":2594,"date":"2014-12-03T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2015-09-16T11:52:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T15:52:55","slug":"warner-bros-announces-cast-suicide-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/12\/03\/warner-bros-announces-cast-suicide-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros Announces Cast for &#8220;Suicide Squad&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Brothers&#8217; 2016 anti-hero\u00a0flick based on the <em>Suicide Squad<\/em> comic book has its key players.\u00a0David Ayer (<em>Fury<\/em>, <em>End of Watch<\/em>) is set to direct the bad-guys-turned-good flick with some key A-listers joining him. Jared Leto is set to portray the Joker with\u00a0Margot Robbie as his\u00a0Harley Quinn. Another Batman villain, Deadshot will be played by\u00a0Will Smith. Oh, and we&#8217;ve got us some Tom Harvey as well. Long time DC author and COO\u00a0Geoff Johns will be executive\u00a0producing along with\u00a0Zack Snyder\u00a0and Deborah Snyder&#8211; the newest DC movie staples.<\/p>\n<p>I have always fallen into the the supportive camp for Will Smith and the\u00a0ambivalent camp of\u00a0Jared Leto, so I can&#8217;t say I am ecstatic about the casting decisions. What I can talk\u00a0about is my long-term grudge for Warner Bros making bad decisions with DC movies. Their <em>Green Lantern<\/em> and <em>Superman Returns\u00a0<\/em>absolutely devastated me as a fan of both comics; and their choices to completely disregard Wonder Woman up until the new <em>Batman V Superman<\/em> absolutely devastated me as a fan and a lady. I am sure there are others who feel the whole\u00a0<em>DC Cinematic Universe\u00a0<\/em> has much to prove to comic readers (and people with decent taste in general) before we can fully hop on board. I want to support these films and get excited for Harley Quinn getting a headline in a film, but having been bitten at least 2\u00a0times, I am 2000 times shy. For now, I am not sold I need to shell out 12 bucks to see any of these in theatres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warner Brothers&#8217; 2016 anti-hero\u00a0flick based on the Suicide Squad comic book has its key players.\u00a0David Ayer (Fury, End of Watch) is set to direct the bad-guys-turned-good flick with some key A-listers joining him. Jared Leto is set to portray the Joker with\u00a0Margot Robbie as his\u00a0Harley Quinn. Another Batman villain, Deadshot will be played by\u00a0Will Smith.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/12\/03\/warner-bros-announces-cast-suicide-squad\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":2598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404,338,138],"tags":[1328,340,1333,1330,1332,1331,1329],"class_list":{"0":"post-2594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-comic-book-movies","8":"category-comic-books-2","9":"category-movies","10":"tag-dc-cinematic-universe","11":"tag-dc-comics","12":"tag-deadshot","13":"tag-harley-quinn","14":"tag-jared-leto","15":"tag-joker","16":"tag-suicide-squad"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}