Director David Ayer's Suicide Squad is setting itself up to be one of the biggest (and most interesting) blockbusters of the year, with its all-star cast of DC comic villains forced to team-up for the greater good.
Jared Leto as The Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn and Will Smith as Deadshot are just a few reasons to get excited, but now a new photo from the film gives us our best look yet at the team in action.
In the full image below (starting from the left) you can see Robbie's Harley Quinn, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flagg, Smith as Deadshot and Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang. Exactly what the team is up to hasn't been revealed, but it looks as though the squad has broken into an office of some kind.
USA Today debuted the new image and also spoke to Ayer as well as the new face of Batman, Ben Affleck, about the film.
"We all need good guys and everything — yay, good guys — but at the end of the day, they're kinda boring," Ayer tells the newspaper. "They're always going to do the right thing. When you're dealing with the baddies, it's easy to get ahead of the audience and invert expectations."
Ayer says Affleck is awesome as Batman, and it seems like the feeling is mutual between Affleck and Suicide Squad.
"It felt like I have such a cool cousin," Affleck says. "This thing that is so awesome is somehow related to me, and that was really exciting because it started to feel like a constellation of things, and I've never had that feeling."
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, in which Affleck stars alongside Henry Cavill's Superman, and Ayer's Suicide Squad will be just the start of DC's own cinematic universe, with multiple films coming each year from here until at least 2020. There is a lot riding on Suicide Squad in particular. While everybody knows who Batman and Superman are, Suicide Squad's cast of largely B-grade villains means the film will have to rely more on positive word of mouth to succeed. If the film is as great as it looks, that shouldn't be too much of a problem.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is in theaters on March 25, with Suicide Squad arriving Aug. 5.
