Hi all! This post is slightly delayed as I was spending last weekend attending CONvergence (which is, to the best of my knowledge, the largest entirely volunteer-run convention in the country). While there, in addition to all the other things I was doing, I saw a trailer for ‘Suicide Squad’, which I didn’t even realize had gotten far enough along yet to get a teaser.
Now, I will freely admit that the folks showing the trailers did include a few clear parody trailers like “George Lucas Strikes Back”. So it may have been a fan-made trailer. On the other hand, it certainly looked, in the opening scene, like we were getting original footage of Will Smith, which makes me suspect it was real. On the other other hand, it looked astonishingly terrible. In the opening sequence, Amanda Waller says that she’s putting together an elite unit. She then pauses and says, “Actually…it’s more of a SQUAD.” Then she looks at the camera and says, “A SQUAD, get it people? SQUAD, as in ‘Suicide SQUAD’? Eh? Eh?” (Okay, she doesn’t actually do that last part. If she did, it’d be easier to know that this was a fake trailer.)
My question is: Has anyone else seen this trailer? Is it real? Is it fake? If it’s real, did it tank your hopes for the ‘Suicide Squad’ movie the same way it did mine? Please let me know in the comments!
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I haven’t seen it, but if they were doing some joke trailers in there, it’s possible that they spliced in Waller from “Arrow”, who did have an episode where she said that line (scroll down towards the end), and whose delivery on it was as terrible as it seems you found it there.
Anyway, I’ve been trying not to have any hopes, so that I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it turns out to be any good.
Fan trailer, they haven’t released anything officially yet.
Oh thank god. Seriously, it wasn’t terrible for a fan trailer, but it was not one of those trailers that you look at and think, “Wow! This is so good these people should be working in Hollywood!”
If it looks terrible, it must be a fan trailer.
I did not know that they never released any official trailers for ‘Ted 2’.
(No, I can’t even joke about that. ‘Ted 2’ didn’t have any fans and we all know it.)