James Gunn Explains Why Amanda Waller Wanted Rick Flagg to Die

James Gunn is revealing his innermost secrets and techniques involving his new movie The Suicide Squad. On the Script Apart podcast, Gunn talks about why Rick Flagg (Joel Kinneman) is on Team one and the deleted scene that helps us perceive why he’s even on this mission.

“We realize that she picked out all of the people she didn’t like, and all the people she thought were really useless, just to use as a diversion so the team she thought was useful could get through,” Gunn mentioned. “And it’s true. Team 2 is pretty deadly. They’re pretty good at what they do… they’re the real money team. And then there’s the other team.”

The Suicide Squad opens with Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) Blackmailing Savant (Michael Rooker) into changing into part of workforce one (which Flagg is part of). The process is to infiltrate the island nation of Corto Maltese. As quickly as workforce one touches down on Maltese soil, they’re obliterated by the navy. This is when Waller admits she purposely used workforce one as a diversion so Task Force X workforce may make its means by means of the island with out difficulty.

It at all times appeared like Waller and Flagg had been on good phrases, so why add him to an expendable workforce? On the podcast, Gunn particulars a deleted scene that describes why she made that call.

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“One thing we had to cut from the film that sometimes I’m like ‘oh, I wish we didn’t!’ is that we find out why Rick Flag is in that group,” Gunn defined. “We see a flashback where Rick Flag makes fun of Amanda Waller’s shirt. It’s this really ugly shirt with all these different colors on it, and he says, ‘It looks like a group of clowns sh*t all over you.’ And Steve Agee’s character, John Economos, is just laughing hysterically at Amanda Waller, and you can just see death in Viola Davis’s face. She just looks like death. And that’s why [Flag is] on that beach.”

At first, it looks as if one thing like this may be beneath Waller. Why would she care about what Rick Flagg feels? But no, Waller will not be above being vindictive for even probably the most minor factor. However, it’s most likely good the scene was lower as a result of the movie’s ending tells the viewers why Waller was betting on Flagg to die.

The Suicide Squad is in theaters and streaming on HBO Max proper now.

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