Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie To Join DC Movie Universe

Warner Bros. is serious about injecting its expanding DC comic book universe with some big star power. It turns out Will Smith might end up headlining the first movie to follow Batman v Superman with Tom Hardy and Margot Robbie co-starring.

Earlier this week we reported on Warner Bros. announcement that it's got 10 DC movies slated through 2020. And the first movie after Batman v Superman is going to be Suicide Squad, a lesser-known DC property where supervillains team up to take on so-called "suicide" missions in order to clear their names. Gritty action specialist David Ayer is set to direct, making Suicide Squad the follow-up to Fury, which opens this weekend. The plan is for Suicide Squad to have a dark tone with lots of action.



I don't know which comic book characters will be in the movie, but Deadline reports Will Smith and Tom Hardy are very close to signing on, and Margot Robbie will likely join them.

So who might they be playing? We have no idea right now, but rumor has it Deadshot could be one of the villains. He's become a staple villain in the Arrow TV show, but Warner Bros. has made it clear that its TV and movie properties won't share a universe. Mostly, though, Suicide Squad will be digging up less well-known characters. A bunch of kinda bad unknown protagonists teamed up to fight evil? Sounds an awful lot like Suicide Squad will be Guardians of the Galaxy's hard-boiled cousin.

Also, before anyone gets their hopes up, Zack Snyder has made it clear that the newly established DC Universe will not tie into the continuity of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy. So don't expect to see Hardy reprising the role of Bane. Instead, the new DC Universe will all be tied to Man of Steel. The Aquaman movie is said to deal with the destruction of Atlantis due to the effects of the Man of Steel world engine, and the other movies are similarly tied to that first movie. Sound kind of dark? That's the idea. Get ready for the very-gritty DC Universe (with Will Smith)!

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