David Ayer On How Suicide Squad is Different From Other Comic Book Films

(Photo: Empire Magazine)

This week, we got a lot of Suicide Squad images and interviews thanks to Empire Magazine's feature in its latest issue. Other than the collection of covers,photos, and quotes from the cast, the magazine also had a chance to talk to EP Charles Roven and director David Ayer about next year's comic book film.

"We'd just started shooting Batman v Superman, we were figuring out our path through the expanding DC Justice League universe," Roven said. He continued with "Then David Ayer came and pitched his take on Suicide Squad. It had this darkness and edge, while still tonally in the zone of what we're trying to do with these movies. And it's impossible that you could get a big tentpole picture from pitch to start of principal photography and faster than we did."

But Ayer knew what he had was far from the typical plots and themes of popular superhero films. He knows that Suicide Squad is unlike we've seen in a comic book movie before.

"You know, all these movies are about defeating the evil alien robot from f*cking Planet X, before it destroys the world with its ticking clock. And who the f*ck cares?" Ayer claimed. "But you do this story about struggle and isolation and people who have been sh*t on that suddenly get thrown this lifeline... that's not so bad... I like to think of this as the Comic Book Movie 2.0"

It sounds like the characters in Ayer's film will be more complex than your average superhero or supervillain, and the way he described it as a "Comic Book Movie 2.0" is making me excied to see this film more. I could almost relate to OnlyLeigh's fangirl video about anticipating for epic films.

Suicide Squad will hit theaters on Aug. 5, 2016. Check out the newly-released photos here.