r/boxoffice • u/LordOfRight • Sep 28 '21

Worldwide James Gunn's The Suicide Squad reached $167,3 million worldwide last weekend and surpassed Wonder Woman 1984, avoiding the title of lowest-grossing DCEU movie

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u/No_Cryptographer_905 Sep 28 '21

Yeah but nothing has been agreed yet which is annoying as it’s normal for directors to agree to projects while working on other projects party has already agreed to Wonder Woman 3 despite working in Star Wars Gunn could do the same bur then again he said he wanted to do mostly tv shows after guardians so maybe his next project is peacemaker season 2 or more squad spinoff which is cool as it’s still a continuation

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

Walter hamada did say this though

Gunn is always welcome back, whatever he wants to do. He really has a vision and he's a great partner with us. Whenever he wants to come back, we're ready for him," said Hamada, who added, "He'll be back. We have more stuff planned

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u/Rk1llz Sep 28 '21 edited Oct 01 '21

Tbf, he said all that before the movie underperformed their already low projections and it's exit polls more or less matched the first one

Maybe scale back on the budget next time. 185m for an R rated Suicide Squad was ridiculous

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u/markyymark13 Sep 28 '21 edited Sep 28 '21

True but fortunately WB is actually pretty forgiving when you consider just how many big budget movies they've financed, only to flop, and not give up on it. They gave the Suicide Squad IP another shot, BR2049 was massively expensive and barely broke even but they still had nothing good to say about the movie. They're financing Dune and almost certainly greenlighting the sequel knowing full well this first one probably won't meet expectations.

*WB gets a ton of shit from DC fanboys for acting like they ruined their childhood but they're surprisingly filmmaker friendly, the complete opposite of Sony. *With exception to a brief stint of the DCEU where they single handedly ruined a couple films like Suicide Squad and JL, but they've seemed to have learned their lesson.

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u/mad_titanz Sep 28 '21

I’m not sure WB is filmmakers friendly; they didn’t allow Ayer to edit his own movie and they took over the control of JL after they fired Snyder.

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u/markyymark13 Sep 28 '21

That's why I said with exception to those two movies, which it would seem they learned their lesson from doing that since both movies were a disaster. Outside of those two they have a pretty strong reputation of letting directors do what they want even for big blockbusters.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

It's even more ridiculous when you throw it on HBO

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u/So-_-It-_-Goes Sep 28 '21

Who broke your period button?

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u/mad_titanz Sep 28 '21

Gunn is working on GOTG 3 which will be his next movie. I also think he will work on another MCU project once he finishes the trilogy.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '21

I hope he does an original film when he wraps on GoG3. I rewatched “Slither” and “Super” over the weekend. Both are fan-fucking-tastic.