The Suicide Squad Gets IMAX Featurette Teasing Its Action and Scale

The Suicide Squad Gets IMAX Featurette Teasing Its Action and Scale

IMAX has dropped a behind-the-scenes featurette for James Gunn’s highly-anticipated movie The Suicide Squad, featuring interviews by Gunn as well as some of its main cast including Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, and more. The Suicide Squad IMAX featurette, which you can check out below along with its new poster, provides us with some new footage highlighting the massive scale of its action and story as Gunn emphasizes why seeing the new DC movie on IMAX is the best way to experience all of its R-rated glory. 

In addition to the IMAX featurette, Warner Bros. Pictures had also dropped another featurette, highlighting the advanced camera technology they’ve used to shoot The Suicide Squad with the help of Red Digital Cinema. 

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Welcome to hell — a.k.a. Belle Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst Super-Villains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Captain Boomerang, Ratcatcher 2, Savant, King Shark, Blackguard, Javelin and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn. Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese. Trekking through a jungle teeming with militant adversaries and guerrilla forces at every turn, the Squad is on a search-and-destroy mission with only Colonel Rick Flag on the ground to make them behave…and Amanda Waller’s government techies in their ears, tracking their every movement. And as always, one wrong move and they’re dead (whether at the hands of their opponents, a teammate, or Waller herself). If anyone’s laying down bets, the smart money is against them—all of them.

The ensemble roster for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad includes the return of DCEU alums Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, and Viola Davis, who are respectively reprising their roles as Harley Quinn, Captain Boomerang, Rick Flag, and Amanda Waller from the 2016 David Ayer-directed film.

Joining the returning characters are Idris Elba, John Cena,  Peter Capaldi, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior, Michael Rooker, Alice Braga, Pete Davidson, Joaquín Cosio, Juan Diego Botto, Storm Reid, Nathan Fillion, Sean Gunn, Mayling Ng, Flula Borg, Jennifer Holland, Tinashe Kajese, Sylvester Stallone, Steve Agee, and Taika Waititi.

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Based on characters from DC, The Suicide Squad is written and directed by James Gunn. Producers are Charles Roven and Peter Safran, with Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Walter Hamada, Chantal Nong Vo, Nikolas Korda, and Richard Suckle set as executive producers.

The film is currently slated to arrive in theaters and on HBO Max on August 6.

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