As you probably know already, Warner Bros/DC are interested in Mel Gibson directing Suicide Squad 2. This is the kind of joke I would have made before, but with Darren Aronofsky's close brush with Wolverine 2 and Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby still in recent memory, we are truly living in an age when any movie can happen at any time, seemingly just to fuck with me.
He made an apology tweet that was better than his movie.
Obviously, this is big news for everyone: a much-derided film (perhaps the Most Derided of 2016™) pairing with the most controversial filmmaker today is... a perfect marriage in the worst possible way. It feels almost too bad to be true. So let's think about this for a second.
The madder, more cynical of us (hello) aren't convinced. This whole thing is certainly an effective way to drum up publicity for a film that doesn't even have a script yet. With David Ayer and Margot Robbie working on Gotham City Sirens, and Leto's Joker experiment presumably taking his talents to The Batman, what's even the point of a Suicide Squad 2?
Then again, DC has been putting out mediocre movies for the last five years and emerging each time with a modest profit—so why not just cash in on all the buzz this is likely to get, no matter the tone of that buzz? Hell, it will be the most decorated collaboration in DC history, with an Academy Award–winning director teaming up with an Academy Award–winning movie. Isn't that gross?
Damn, wait though. Maybe this whole thing is a godsend. A low-key way for us to put a bad filmmaker and a bad film series out to pasture all in one go. Mel Gibson and DC teaming up means we'll only make one terrible movie in the time we likely would have gotten two. It's math, folks. I'm on board.
TL;DR: Suicide Squad 2 will probably happen. It probably won't be directed by Mel Gibson. It will definitely be terrible.
