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James Gunn has tweeted out the cast list for Warner Bros.’ upcoming The Suicide Squad which goes into production on Sept. 23 at Pinewood in Atlanta, GA. Those not announced yet which he unveiled today include Alice Braga, Michael Rooker, Joaquin Cosio, Mayling Ng, Sean Gunn, Jennifer Holland, Juan Diego Botto, Tinashe…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Doctor Who actor and 1995 Oscar winner Peter Capaldi is boarding James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. We also hear that Saturday Night Live‘s Pete Davidson has been in talks for a small cameo in the pic, and there’s a chance he’ll do it during breaks from SNL. That deal still is…

EXCLUSIVE: Taika Waititi is shaping up to have a very busy fall. Already he’s promoting his Fox Searchlight absurdist fall film festival comedy Jojo Rabbit (opening Oct. 18) and beginning work on Next Goal Wins, his next directorial for the studio classic label. Deadline now hears that the Thor: Ragnarok, and Thor: Lov…

EXCLUSIVE: We’re also hearing that Nathan Fillion will be starring in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad at Warner Bros. The actor’s role is being kept under wraps. Fillion has a long history of working with Gunn: He played the voice of a monstrous inmate in Guardians of the Galaxy, Bill Pardy in Gunn’s 2006 horror comedy…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that comedian Steve Agee is boarding Warner Bros.’ James Gunn-directed sequel The Suicide Squad. We’re hearing buzz that Agee will provide the voiceover to super-villain King Shark, who is a humanoid. King Shark was created by Karl Kesel and made a brief cameo in Superboy vol. 3, #0 (Oct…

EXCLUSIVE: German actor, DJ and comedian Flula Borg is joining James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad.  Borg’s role is being kept under wraps, but we hear he’s playing a love interest to one of the characters in the Warner Bros release. He joins returning castmembers Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn), Viola Davis (Amanda Waller)…

EXCLUSIVE: One day last summer, James Gunn was busy writing to direct the third installment of Marvel's blockbuster Guardians of the Galaxy franchise until, suddenly, he wasn’t. Disney abruptly fired him and his entire career was upended. Though he would finish that script, the corporation pulled the plug after being…

EXCLUSIVE: The H Collective, the LA production outfit which is teaming up with Vin Diesel to produce the next installment in the xXx franchise, has set rising filmmaker Christine Crokos (Pimp) to direct their upcoming elevated horror-thriller The Beast. The company landed Aaron W Sala’s 2018 Blacklist (2018) script in…

Zoe Saldana is applauding Walt Disney Co. executives for reversing their previous banishment of writer/director James Gunn from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. Saldana, who plays green alien Gamora in the series, previously joined her cast mates in support of Gunn, who was temporarily removed from the project…

Idris Elba, who had been in talks to take over Will Smith’s Deadshot role in Warner Bros’ Suicide Squad 2, instead will play a new character in the sequel to the DC movie. Deadline has confirmed that the character played by Smith will not be a part of the next pic, which James Gunn wrote and will direct. Smith had bowe…

Life is slowly returning to normal for writer/director James Gunn. After vanishing from Twitter last summer in the midst of a controversy over his past tweets, Gunn has apparently resumed regular social media activity now that he’s been reinstated by Disney for Guardians of the Galaxy 3. Although Gunn resurfaced on…

James Gunn has responded after Deadline broke the news today that Disney has reinstated him as writer-director of Guardians of the Galaxy 3, after the studio fired him off the threequel last July when old tweets surfaced that made light of pedophilia and rape. The move Friday returns him to the Marvel franchise he has…