Filmmaker James Gunn will bring Task Force X back to the big screen in 2021's The Suicide Squad. While not much is known about the plot of the movie, it will apparently involve a Nazi prison and experiments.
Speaking with Empire, producer Peter Safran gave the details regarding the Suicide Squad's mission in the film and being "sent to a fictional Latin American island called Corto Maltese," which debuted in the pages of 1986's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #3.
"There they have to destroy a Nazi-era prison and laboratory named Jotunheim," Safran explained, "where political prisoners were held and experimentations took place."
In the same article, Gunn defended 2016's Suicide Squad, the events of which The Suicide Squad will ignore, when asked to "define how his film relates to its predecessor." Gunn said writer and director David Ayer picked "picked fantastic actors to work with," and that Ayer "dealt with these actors in building their characters in a really deep and fearless way." However, despite ignoring Suicide Squad, Gunn thinks The Suicide Squad "does not contradict the first movie," though it could do so in small ways.
Written and directed by James Gunn, The Suicide Squad stars Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Michael Rooker as Savant, Flula Borg as Javelin, David Dastmalchian as Polka-Dot Man, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Daniela Melchior as Ratcatcher 2, Idris Elba as Bloodsport, Mayling NG as Mongal, Peter Capaldi as The Thinker, Alice Braga as Solsoria, Steve Agee as King Shark, Pete Davidson as Blackguard, Nathan Fillion as TDK, Sean Gunn as Weasel, Jai Courtney as Captain Boomerang, John Cena as Peacemaker, Taika Waititi and Storm Reid. The film arrives in theaters Aug. 6, 2021.
Source: Empire magazine, via Reddit