Man, The Suicide Squad was a variety of enjoyable. Gory, blood-soaked, hyper-violent enjoyable, however that was type of its magnificence—it was as a lot a darkish comedy because it was an R-rated motion flick. But there was as soon as a scene within the film’s script that will have made The Suicide Squad a lot, a lot darker, to a degree that will have deeply affected folks’s enjoyment of the movie.

In an interview with Cinema Blend, director James Gunn described the scene which might have appeared close to the film’s finish: “At the very end of the movie, Ratcatcher 2 had … smuggled in and gotten away with all of that information from Jotunheim, and the rest of the group didn’t know about it. And [Amanda] Waller blew up her head, after they went back to the prison! At which point, Harley tries to talk Bloodsport—Bloodsport’s freaking out, because he’s connected to this person, like a daughter. And he’s freaking out, and Harley is actually being sort of kind, in a weird way, trying to talk Bloodsport into just letting it go. But Bloodsport ends up shooting Waller …. right below the heart with one of the exploding bullets, which we see Peacemaker using earlier in the movie. And so now she has to do what he says.”

Yeah, that’s no good. As Gunn mentions, the guts of the film is the father-daughter-esque relationship that develops between the cold-hearted Bloodsport (Idris Elba) and Ratcatcher II (Daniela Melchior). And since Ratcatcher will get a flashback exhibiting her candy relationship along with her paternal father, performed by Taika Waititi, she’s additionally essentially the most sympathetic character within the film by a rustic mile. Hell, even Harley Quinn doesn’t come shut, as a result of her reputation is so excessive everyone knows in our hearts that’s she principally immortal. Killing Ratcatcher off could be heartbreaking by itself, and it could have severely soured folks’s ideas on the film’s ending, and thus as a complete. But for Waller to homicide her after she’s again in custody—ostensibly “safe and sound”—would simply be infuriating. It would really feel like a betrayal made by the story itself. It would have sucked.

Happily, Gunn realized the scene sucked, and he realized it early on. It was minimize earlier than the ultimate draft, and he defined why: “It was just too dark for me. It was really just too dark.” Gunn reveals extra particulars concerning the scene over on the interview, which is value a glance.

Sir, assume I communicate for a terrific many individuals in agreeing it was an excellent alternative to not kill the sweetest character in your homicide film, as an alternative leaving the dying to TDK, Blackguard, Savant, and the remainder of the B-team. (Mostly.)

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