It’s official. The movies have a new Joker and he will be played by Jared Leto. Warner Bros. finally announced the cast for Suicide Squad and it will include several names already attached to the movie.
The announcement came just hours after it was reported that the David Ayer-directed film will be shooting in Toronto in April.
Leto will play The Joker and it will be the first time the iconic Batman villain will be brought to the screen since Heath Ledger won a posthumous Oscar for playing him in The Dark Knight. Margot Robbie will be playing Harley Quinn and it will mark the first time that character will reach the big screen.
Will Smith has been cast as Deadshot, while Tom Hardy will play Rick Flagg. Jai Courtney, who also stars in Terminator: Genisys, will star as Boomerang. Model Cara Delevingne has been cast as Enchantress. Hardy becomes the first actor from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight series to get another role in the current DC universe films.
All the characters in the movie are DC Comics villains, who are assigned nearly impossible missions in an effort to redeem themselves.
“The Warner Bros. roots are deep on this one,” Greg Silverman, president of creative development and worldwide production at Warner Bros. Pictures, noted in a statement to TheWrap. “David Ayer returns to the studio where he wrote Training Day and brings his incredible ability to craft multidimensional villains to this iconic DC property with a cast of long time Warner collaborators Will Smith and Tom Hardy, and other new and returning favorites: Margot, Jared, Jai and Cara. We look forward to seeing this terrific ensemble, under Ayer's amazing guidance, give new meaning to what it means to be a villain and what it means to be a hero.”
Man of Steel director Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Colin Wilson and Geoff Johns are the executive producers on the film.
Suicide Squad will be the first DC movie to follow Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and hits theaters on Aug. 5, 2016.
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