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Jaume Collet-Serra Frontrunner For ‘Suicide Squad’ Sequel
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EXCLUSIVE: The Shallows director Jaume Collet-Serra has emerged as
frontrunner choice to direct Suicide Squad 2, the next installment of the
2016 Warner Bros DC film that grossed $745 million worldwide. The studio
looked at a number of filmmakers — Mel Gibson among them — but sources said
the studio is focused on Collet-Serra to take the reins of a franchise that
has Will Smith and Margot Robbie back in the ensemble.
The original, written and directed by David Ayer, was about a group of
incorrigible jailbirds with special skills who were conscripted to fight
terrible villains with the idea the heroes were expendable. The first film
wasn’t a favorite of the fanboy crowd, but it a big global financial hit for
the studio that left no doubt of future installments.
Collet-Serra, the Spanish director who broke into Hollywood with the genre
hit Orphan, followed with the hits Non-Stop and The Shallows and has upcoming
the 2018 Liam Neeson starrer The Commuter. He is in high demand and recently
became attached to Annapurna’s Waco, a drama scripted by Zero Dark Thirty’s
Mark Boal and Kubo and the Two Strings’ Marc Haimes about the 1993 standoff
between the FBI and Texas state law enforcement and the David Koresh-led
Branch Davidians that turned the sleepy town of Elk, just outside of Waco,
into a battle zone. A 51-day standoff ended with 76 people dead as the cult’
s compound was engulfed by a raging fire.