‘The Suicide Squad’ Clip: Meet Nathan Fillion’s Incredibly Bizarre Supervillain
Prepare yourselves to see the most heavily armed supervillain inJames Gunn’sThe Suicide Squad. IGN released an exclusive clip from the upcoming DCEU flick showing off the not-so-superpowers ofNathan Fillion’s character, The Detachable Kid. And he’s exactly what he sounds like.
The Suicide Squad Clip
In the short clip,Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn andJoel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag face an onslaught of gunfire on a remote beach. Fillion’s The Detachable Kid (or TDK) tries to come to the rescue, and it goes about as well as you’d think. TDK is not a comics character, but fans are pretty certainhe’s a modified versionof the early ’90s character, Arm Fall Off Boy. One thing we know for sure about Gunn’sThe Suicide Squadis that he hadfree reinto kill whoever he wanted. I have a feeling The Detachable Kid is going to be one of the film’s earliest (and possibly nastiest) fatalities.
This isn’t Fillions' first rodeo on a Gunn-helmed flick. The two previously worked together on Gunn’s debut feature film,Slither, about a town besieged by alien slugs. (Michael Rooker, who will portray Savant inThe Suicide Squad, also starred in the 2006 horror-comedy.) If anyone can make a silly supervillain work, it’s Fillion. His brand of self-effacing humor matches the tone of Gunn’s shocking sensibilities, and it’s truly a match made in comic book heaven.
Counting the Days ‘Til The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squadlooks like it might be the DCEU’s biggest win yet.Early buzzindicates that the film is as hilarious as it is heartfelt. It’s also apparently incredibly violent, which hews closer to Gunn’s pre-Marvel work than his more recent output. (BothSlitherand his second film,Super,are full of graphic gore.)
On top of the actors mentioned,The Suicide Squadstars Jai Courtney, Idris Elba, John Cena, Viola Davis, Taika Waititi, Alice Braga, David Dastmalchian, Pete Davidson, Sean Gunn, Mayling Ng, Mikaela Hoover, Jennifer Holland, Freddie Stroma, and the voice of Sylvester Stallone as King Shark. Gunn wrote and directed the film and was allegedly given permission todo whatever he wanted.
There’s plenty to be excited about withThe Suicide Squad, which opens in U.S. theaters and on HBO Max onAugust 6, 2021. It will premiere in France onJuly 28and in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Turkey onJuly 30. The film will play at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada onAugust 4.
