Suicide Squad (movie)

Suicide Squad is an American superhero movie based on the DC Comics team of the same name.

Suicide Squad
Directed by	David Ayer
Written by	David Ayer
Based on	Suicide Squad by John Ostrander
Produced by	Richard Suckle Charles Roven Colin Wilson
Starring	Will Smith Jared Leto Margot Robbie Joel Kinnaman Jai Courtney Cara Delevingne Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Viola Davis
Cinematography	Roman Vasyanov[1]
Production companies	DC Entertainment Atlas Entertainment
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	August 5, 2016 (2016-08-05) (United States)
Country	United States
Language	English

The movie was written and directed by David Ayer. It starred a cast featuring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Karen Fukuhara, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, and Viola Davis with Ben Affleck as Batman and Ezra Miller as The Flash.

By February 2009, a Suicide Squad movie was being made at Warner Bros. Pictures. David Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014 and by October the casting process had begun. Principal photography began on April 13, 2015 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and in Chicago, Illinois, and ended in August that year. The film was released on August 5, 2016 in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D.^[2][3][4]

A sequel, titled The Suicide Squad, will be released in August 2021.