The Suicide Squad is an upcoming American superhero film based on the DC Comics antihero team the Suicide Squad. Produced by DC Films, Atlas Entertainment and The Safran Company and set for distribution by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is intended to be a soft reboot and standalone sequel to Suicide Squad (2016) and the tenth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film, written and directed by James Gunn, stars an ensemble cast led by Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Peter Capaldi, Sylvester Stallone and Viola Davis. In The Suicide Squad, new and old members of an imprisoned supervillain government task force are sent to destroy an old laboratory prison.
The Suicide Squad is scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States on August 6, 2021, and will stream digitally on HBO Max for a month beginning on that same date. A spin-off television series centered on Peacemaker (Cena) is in development for HBO Max.
| Movie | The Suicide Squad 2 |
| Genre | superhero |
| Directed by | James Gunn |
| Produced by | Charles Roven,
Peter Safran |
| Written by | James Gunn |
| Based on | Suicide Squad by John Ostrander |
| Cast | Margot Robbie,
Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Peter Capaldi, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis |
| Music by | John Murphy |
| Cinematography | Henry Braham |
| Edited by | Fred Raskin,
Christian Wagner |
| Production Company | DC Films,
Atlas Entertainment, The Safran Company |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date | 6 August 2021 (United States) |
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