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Well, that’s one way to let a director run wild. It especially becomes a masterpiece if that director is James Gunn. With his love for blood, guts, and gore, the director was held back by Marvel Studios when directingGuardians of the Galaxy Vol.1&2.
After getting fired while directingGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,James Gunn was quickly picked up by Warner Bros. Discovery (formerly Warner Bros.) to direct the 2021 filmThe Suicide Squad.There was a reason why the film was a wild ride from start to finish as James Gunn had been given free rein and told to“do whatever the f*ck”he wanted!
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Back in 2018, the director was fired from Marvel Studios for some old resurfaced tweets in which James Gunn made jokes about r*pe and other controversial topics. Well, the DCEU hired Gunn to directThe Suicide Squadafter David Ayer’s 2016 film failed miserably.
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Having no complaints, Gunn joined the DCEU and Warner Bros. to direct the 2021 movie. Jai Courtney, the Australian actor who portrayed the role of Captain Boomerang in David Ayer’sSuicide Squadback in 2016 was also a part ofJames Gunn’smovie. In an interview withVariety,Courtney spilled the beans about how Gunn was given free rein and told to do whatever he wanted on the sets ofThe Suicide Squadby Warner Bros.
“It’s crazy, dude. It’s so bizarre. James Gunn is an evil genius in a way and the movie is really something that is representative of what he is capable of. He really pushed the boundaries. He was basically given the keys and told, ‘Do whatever the f*** you want,’ and he did.”
And it can be seen that Gunn decided to use the freedom to the best of his abilities by hiring Sylvester Stallone to voice the role of King Shark.
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Being a highly reputed actor, it seems a bit out of Stallone’s character that he would voice the character of King Shark in the 2021 movie. As perIMDBtrivia, Gunn and Stallone had a hilarious interaction when the director initially pitched the role of King Shark to Sylvester Stallone.
“I wrote this role for you in The Suicide Squad. It won’t take too much of your time,”said Gunn. “Yeah. It’s a big, kinda chubby, human-eating shark,”to which Sylvester Stallone replied“Anything for you, brother.”
The Suicide Squadreceived a rating of 7.2/10 on IMDB and a whopping 90% on Rotten Tomatoes and is generally seen as one of the DCEU’s finest. The James Gunn-directed movie is currently available to stream on Max in the U.S.
Source:Variety,IMDB
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
