{"id":43917,"date":"2018-06-08T20:33:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T00:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=43917"},"modified":"2018-12-09T00:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T05:38:24","slug":"suicide-squad-2-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/08\/suicide-squad-2-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"SUICIDE SQUAD 2 Gets New Writing Duo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/suicide-squad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39533\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/suicide-squad.jpg\" alt=\"Suicide Squad\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/suicide-squad.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/suicide-squad-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warner Brothers have paired writers David Bar Katz and Todd Stashwick with director Gavin O&#8217;Connor to work on the screenplay for <strong>Suicide Squad 2<\/strong>. The pair will be replacing <strong>Legend of Tarzan<\/strong>&#8216;s Adam Cozad who had been working on the script with O&#8217;Connor.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 original starred Will Smith and Margot Robbie as two members of a squad of super-villians who are forced by the government to take dangerous black ops missions in order to reduce time on their sentences. O&#8217;Connor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/09\/06\/gavin-oconnor-suicide-squad-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">took over<\/a> directorial reigns for the project from original director David Ayer, who had moved on to develop another DC Comics Extended Universe film for the studio, <strong>Gotham City Sirens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Katz first came onto the Hollywood radar when his script <strong>The Man In The Rockefeller Suit<\/strong> landed on the 2014 Black List. Since then he has had a number of projects in development including the Robert Dwney Jr feature <strong>Chasing Phil<\/strong>. He has also done a rewrite on New Line&#8217;s <strong>Spawn<\/strong>, which is currently gearing up for production later this year. Stashwick already has some experience with DC Comics villains having written for the Fox Network&#8217;s Batman prequel series <em>Gotham<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While most of Warners future plans for their DC Extended Universe franchise seem to be up in the air, it is a good bet that a <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong> sequel will happen. The film did not do well with critics but it did make $746.8 million worldwide, so it is easy to see why a follow up would be wanted. Currently, though, the studio also has various projects featuring Robbie&#8217;s Harley Quinn and various iterations of the classic villain the Joker &#8211; who appeared in Suicide Squad portrayed by Jared Leto &#8211; so there are a number of possibilities that the studio has to choose from when looking to move forward.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/suicide-squad-2-gets-new-writers-sequel-1118407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Warner Brothers has teamed director Gavin O&#8217;Connor with a pair of new writers to get the project moving forward.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/06\/08\/suicide-squad-2-writers\/\" title=\"SUICIDE SQUAD 2 Gets New Writing Duo\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[9890,9302,8193,9891],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-43917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-bar-katz","9":"tag-gavin-oconnor","10":"tag-suicide-squad-2","11":"tag-todd-stashwick"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43917"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=43917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}