Suicide Squad

Plot

From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences.

About Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics anti-hero team the Suicide Squad. It is the third installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Written and directed by David Ayer, it stars an ensemble cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, and Cara Delevingne. In the film, a secret government agency led by Amanda Waller recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions and save the world from a powerful threat in exchange for reduced sentences. By February 2009, a Suicide Squad film was in development at Warner Bros. Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014, and by October the casting process had begun. Principal photography began in Toronto on April 13, 2015, with additional filming in Chicago, and ended in August that year. Suicide Squad premiered in New York City on August 1, 2016, and was released in the United States on August 5 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was a box office success, grossing $749 million on a budget of $175 million, becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2016, but received mostly negative reviews from critics. Ayer himself disowned the film after its release, claiming that extensive studio interference had ruined his vision. It won an Academy Award for Best…

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