If you’d have told me yesterday the cast of Warner Bros. adaptation of Suicide Squad was already bursting at the seams with names, I’d have said, “Yup,” but the movie’s cast just got a little bit bigger as Common has joined the project in an unspecified role according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Fresh off a Best Original Song win at the Oscars for his part in writing Selma‘s “Glory”, the rapper joins what looks to be half of Hollywood in the supervillain team-up. The cast includes Jared Leto, Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman, Jai Courtney, Cara Delavingne, Scott Eastwood, and more, including rumors that Ben Affleck and Jesse Eisenberg may make appearances in the film, if only to stop and say hello.
The third entry in the DC Comics multiverse following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad is set between that film and 2012’s Man of Steel. It centers on an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking high-risk black ops missions in exchange for commuted prison sentences. Suicide Squad is slated to hit theaters August 5, 2016.
