David Ayer’s Suicide Squad has been hammered by leaks of on-set footage and photos. Warner Bros. then lost another battle when videos of the footage shown at San Diego Comic-Con Saturday leaked on the web. The studio is trying to get the upper hand back again by posting the official footage on YouTube.
The footage is billed as a “first look,” although it is put together like a trailer, complete with a slow cover of the Bee Gees’ “I Started A Joke” playing over the action. It shows Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) convincing a couple of military officers that picking criminals to take on a dangerous mission is actually a good idea. While we see The Joker (Jared Leto) at the end, it’s not clear if capturing the Joker is their mission (but it probably is).
There’s also a shot of Batman (Ben Affleck) on the back of the Joker’s car and the next shot shows Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) laughing inside.
Most of the Suicide Squad cast was at SDCC, although Leto didn’t show up. Other members of the cast include Will Smith, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Joel Kinnaman and Jai Courtney. They did show this trailer there and did not want fans recording it. Of course, people still did it, so Warner Bros. had to post the trailer as soon as they could.
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In a statement to TheWrap, the studio said it never intended on making this reel public, since they really wanted to make it a Comic Con-exclusive experience.
Suicide Squad opens on Aug. 5, 2016.
screenshot from Warner Bros. YouTube trailer