The leader of The Expendables just joined DC’s most expendable team of antiheroes. According to an Instagram post by James Gunn, Sylvester Stallone has joined The Suicide Squad cast. As who? No idea, and Gunn ain’t tellin’.
Sly is becoming a regular in Gunn’s superhero movies all of the sudden. He played Stakar Ogord aka the hero Starhawk in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. I would kill for Sly to be the voice of King Shark or something like that.
Sly Stallone joins a cast that includes some old favorites from David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, such as Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, and Joel Kinnaman, and a bunch of new faces to the DCEU including Idris Elba, John Cena (who is getting a Peacemaker spinoff), Michael Rooker, Alice Braga, and like two dozen more. Seriously, most of them are playing very minor characters and will likely die very funny deaths within a few minutes. Doubtful Stallone meets such an embarrassing fate.
The Suicide Squad opens August 6th 2021.