‘The Suicide Squad’ Adds The Ultimate Expendable, Sylvester Stallone

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.

Travis Hopson has been reviewing movies before he even knew there was such a thing. Having grown up on a combination of bad '80s movies, pro wrestling, comic books, and hip-hop, Travis is uniquely positioned to geek out on just about everything under the sun. A vampire who walks during the day and refuses to sleep, Travis is the co-creator and lead writer for Punch Drunk Critics. He is also a contributor to Good Morning Washington, WBAL Morning News, and WETA Around Town. In the five minutes a day he's not working, Travis is also a voice actor, podcaster, and Twitch gamer. Travis is a voting member of the Critics Choice Association (CCA), Washington DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA), and Late Night programmer for the Lakefront Film Festival.