Taika Waititi initially had a different role in The Suicide Squad

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Taika Waititi appears in The Suicide Squad for a few legal brief seconds – we won't spoil who the role playe plays – but the worker/author/conductor's separate was originally going to be bigger. James Gunn, who helms the new DC jeopardize, has revealed that Waititi was set to play a doomed Task Force X member.

"I in reality thought most Taika for some other role and I offered it to him and atomic number 2 said, 'I don't know,'" Gunn told IndieWire. "He was working on [his live-carry through redo of] Akira at the time, and he said, 'I had to chip in you my answer in like cardinal weeks,' he entirely wanted to do it. It was one of the other superheroes. And atomic number 2 said that he cherished to be intimate andand so Akira got greenlit and it was happening."

Gunn went on to decline to reveal which actor ended astir taking the role knowing for Waititi, expression: "I would feel regrettable." All the same, he did add that "it's one of the guys from the beginning" WHO ends up inelastic.

How did Waititi end up in the movie at completely, then? Akira ended up falling through with. "Then, all all of a sudden, it cruel separated and [Taika] wrote me and he said, 'Buckeye State, [the] fucking movie hide apart. Is that role is still available?,'" Gunn said. "And I said, 'No, but get me pay back you in something else.'"

Akira not happening was not only good news for Gunn, but also for Marvel fans, arsenic Waititi instead signed on to direct Thor: Love and Thunder, the next installment in the MCU's Thor series. That movie leave as wel feature article the Guardians of the Galaxy, WHO were first brought to the big screen by Gunn!

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