What If...? We Loved The Suicide Squad!
Weekly Catchup
Movie/Television News:
- What If…? First impressions.
- Peggy Carter becoming Captain Carter/Britain
- Steve’s new role as the “Hydra Stomper” First rendition of the Iron Man Suit.
- Howard Stark’s use of the Tesseract to fuel the Hydra Stomper suit for Steve.
- Peggy’s parallel sacrifice to “save the world” rememerges 70 years later through the Tesseract portal.
- What’s next!?
- Animation Style:
- Voice Actors Ep 1:
Guests- Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter / Captain Carter[9]
- Sebastian Stan as James “Bucky” Barnes[3]
- Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark[3]
- Stanley Tucci as Abraham Erskine[10]
- Toby Jones as Arnim Zola[3]
- Bradley Whitford as John Flynn[11]
- Ross Marquand as Johann Schmidt / Red Skull[12]
- Darrell Hammond as a Nazi general
- Josh Keaton as Skinny Steve Rogers / Hydra Stomper[12]
- Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury[3]
- Jeremy Renner as Clint Barton / Hawkeye[3]
- Neal McDonough as Dum Dum Dugan[3]
Suicide Squad:
- Our review, thoughts and opinions.
- Our fav characters:
- Viola Davis (Amanda Waller),
- Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn),
- Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flag), and
- Jai Courtney (Captain Boomerang).
- Idris Elba (Bloodsport),
- Peter Capaldi (The Thinker),
- David Dastmalchian (Polka-Dot Man),
- Daniela Melchior (Ratcatcher),
- Michael Rooker (Savant),
- Pete Davidson (Blackguard),
- Alice Braga (Sol Soria),
- Sean Gunn (Weasel),
- Sylvester Stallone (King Shark/Nanaue with Steve Agee as his on-set stand-in),
- **John Cena **(Peacemaker).
- Comparing it to the 2016 version.
- The numbers: $133.7 million first weekend. Grossed $746.8 total Worldwide
- Rotten Tomatoes: 26% Critics Score, 59% Audience Score (runtime 2h 3m)
- Character Intros in 2016 vs Scene setting title cards in 2021
- Box Office Numbers: _The Suicide Squad _(WB) 4,002 theaters, Fri $12.1M/Sat $8.22M/Sun $6.18M/ 3-day: $26.5M/Wk 1 Deadline Breakdown.
- $185 million Cost – it’s being considered a flop, in terms of cost to earnings. Is HBO Max, the Delta Variant, R rating to blame?
- Currently sitting at a Rotten Tomatoes 91% Critics Score and a 83% Audience Score (runtime 2h 12m)