At the first DC FanDome event in August, director James Gunn revealed the Roll Call video for his upcoming The Suicide Squad film, which introduced each of the characters from the new movie, all clad in their costumes, as a series of pop art slides. The entire video is cued to the 2019 song "Oh No!!!" by Grandson.

While a lot of talk about the video focused on the comic-faithful costumes each character dons for the upcoming DC movie, there is also discussion about the music Gunn used in the video. Although the video only includes the song's chorus, there are lyrics from that song that remain very controversial. At one point, Grandson sings, "My president is a felon, and I can't cope." These lyrics stand out for one notable reason: They might be a shot at his detractors.

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Before filming The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros, James Gunn directed the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies for Disney. Gunn was in the process of making the third Guardians of the Galaxy movie when Disney suddenly fired him from the production. The termination was due to the fact Gunn was openly critical of the President of the United States and found himself the target of a social media campaign.

Michael Cernovich, a right-wing talking head, attempted to "cancel" Gunn due to the director's social media attacks on President Trump. He looked into Gunn's past and found tweets from over a decade ago, making jokes in poor taste out of controversial subject matter. Gunn apologized for these tweets years ago when they first surfaced after Disney initially hired him to direct the first Guardians of the Galaxy. These old tweets were not anything Disney wouldn't have known before hiring him. Despite this, after Cernovich re-posted the tweets, Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn issued a statement, saying Gunn's past tweets were "indefensible" as an explanation of why the company fired him.

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It seemed strange at the time since this was not anything new, and it almost seemed like Disney was saving face by firing him since Cernovich had brought the tweets back to the public consciousness. After Disney fired Gunn, the cast of Guardians of the Galaxy took the director's side, and it appeared things were getting ugly. Then, Warner Bros hired Gunn to make the DC movie The Suicide Squad. He rebounded quite nicely, and it got better for Gunn when Disney hired him back to make Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 less than a year after firing him. The social media campaign against Gunn failed.

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Since his return to Disney, Gunn has kept a low profile when it comes to open political criticism on social media. However, when The Suicide Squad's Roll Call video hit, there is no way that Gunn didn't have a direct hand in choosing the music. Gunn is similar to directors like Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright when it comes to choosing songs for his films. This year, Gunn even released 64 tracks on a Spotify playlist that missed making the soundtrack. Gunn is someone who takes the music he uses in his movies very seriously.

Music is so essential to Gunn that he added the actual songs into his original script for Guardians of the Galaxy. In a 2014 interview with Vulture, Gunn said he studied the Billboard charts for all the top hits of the '70s and listened to a few hundred songs, before slimming his list down to 120 tracks for possible inclusion in the first movie. Gunn said he wrote entire scenes based on the songs he chose.

When it comes to the new Roll Call video, he used "Oh No!!!" by Grandson, a song that included a controversial line speaking out against the United States president. Gunn had to know about that line before adding the track to his movie's teaser. The director survived a smear campaign that threatened his career, so this song choice might be a small way of delivering a subtle dig at his detractors.

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