The Suicide Squad

film by Gunn [2021]

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Cena

  • John Cena
    In John Cena: Action movies

    …films from this time include The Suicide Squad, which centers on a group of DC Comics superheroes. In 2024 he joined an all-star cast—which included Henry Cavill, Sam Rockwell, Bryan Cranston, and Catherine O’Hara—for Argylle, about a novelist whose current spy novel comes to life.

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Davis

  • Viola Davis: Emmy Award, 2015
    In Viola Davis: The Help and How to Get Away with Murder

    …she reprised the role in The Suicide Squad (2021). Davis reteamed with Washington for the 2016 film adaptation of Fences, which he also directed. For her work in the drama, Davis won a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award. Consequently, she became the first Black woman to win an…

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Elba

  • Idris Elba
    In Idris Elba: The Suicide Squad and Hijack

    …supervillain Bloodsport in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. That year he also played an outlaw in The Harder They Fall, a revenge western in which he costarred with Regina King and Jonathan Majors. In 2022 Elba starred in several films, including George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing, in which…

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Robbie

  • Margot Robbie
    In Margot Robbie

    …Prey (2020) and later in The Suicide Squad (2021). Both movies earned generally favourable reviews. In 2021 the actress lent her voice to the family comedy Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway. The following year she costarred with Christian Bale and John David Washington in David O. Russell’s Amsterdam, a social…

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supervillains

  • The Dark Knight
    In supervillain: Modern villainy

    Birds of Prey (2020) and The Suicide Squad (2021); and Ryan Reynolds’s profanity-laced performance in the Deadpool series, including Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). Willem Dafoe’s unsettling interpretation of the Green Goblin in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man (2002), however, signaled the arrival of sinister supervillains in Hollywood, a dark trend that

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Waititi

  • Taika Waititi
    In Taika Waititi: Jojo Rabbit and Reservation Dogs

    …appeared in the action movies The Suicide Squad, playing Ratcatcher, and Free Guy, in which a bank teller (Ryan Reynolds) learns that he is a character in a video game. Waititi then returned to the world of superheroes with the irreverent Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), which he directed and…

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