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  • Harley Quinn and Joker Star in ‘Suicide Squad’ Extended Cut Trailer

    suicide squad, extended cut, harley quinn, jokerThe trailer for the upcoming expanded edition of “Suicide Squad” is here, promising to offer fans even more action, and perhaps most importantly, some more interactions between the film’s two biggest stars, Joker (Jared Leto) and Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie).

    There will only be 13 minutes of extra footage in the extended cut, but the trailer indicates that those few extra scenes will be worth the wait (and worth shelling out for). The trailer brings back the successful soundtrack of Queen classic “Bohemian Rhapsody,” and offers some glimpses of previously unseen Joker and Harley interactions, including one moment when the pre-transformation psychiatrist holds up her former patient at gunpoint. (The psychotic villain, naturally, dares her to shoot, before wrestling the weapon away.)

    It’s unclear if this extended edition will make Leto entirely happy, since he’s previously publicly lamented that almost all of his scenes were cut from the finished film, and 13 minutes isn’t exactly a ton of extra time. But it should shine an additional spotlight on Robbie’s breakout character Harley, who’s soon due to get her own spinoff flick.

    The “Suicide Squad” extended cut will be available in digital HD format on November 15, and on DVD and Bluray on December 13.

  • Get to Know The Joker in New ‘Suicide Squad’ Teaser

    the joker, joker, jared leto, suicide squad, teaser, trailerJared Leto’s take on legendary “Batman” villain The Joker in “Suicide Squad” will be the third time the character has hit the big screen, and while the actor has some big shoes to fill following Jack Nicholson and Heath Ledger’s iconic performances, based on everything we’ve seen so far, Leto looks more than up to the challenge. Now, a new teaser for the villain team-up flick is giving fans a closer peek at the character ahead of the film’s release next month.

    The clip features the familiar soundtrack of “Bohemian Rhapsody” — used to great effect in one of the first trailers for the flick — and lots and lots of shots of The Joker being as creepy and enigmatic as possible. He cackles that signature Joker maniacal laugh, gives Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) a passionate kiss, and messes with one of his handlers (Ike Barinholtz) in a way only an evil, deranged man can.

    A titlecard declares that his favorite joke is “Batman” (get it?), and calls him a megalomaniac. “He’s a psychotic, antisocial freak,” another character declares, and it’s hard to disagree with that sentiment, especially when The Joker is lying on the floor, laughing to himself while surrounded by hundreds of carefully-arranged guns and knives. As you do.

    More madness will surely be in store for moviegoers when “Suicide Squad” invades theaters on August 5.

    Photo credit: YouTube

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  • Jared Leto’s Joker Really Creeped Out Margot Robbie

    Jared Leto as The Joker in "Suicide Squad"
    Jared Leto as The Joker in “Suicide Squad”

    He’s up against two of the best movie Jokers in Heath Ledger and Jack Nicholson. But Jared Leto makes this villain all his own in “Suicide Squad,” says costar Margot Robbie.

    “What he’s doing with the character is so cool,” Robbie tells the New York Daily News — high praise coming from somebody who herself had to amp the crazy up to 11 playing Harley Quinn in the anti-superhero movie that recently finished shooting.

    The Oscar-winning Leto was so intense that at first Robbie found it “confronting” to be near him when he was in makeup — then even more intimidating when he stripped it away.

    “Actually, I saw him out of makeup once and I was actually petrified of him,” she says. “I was too scared to go up and didn’t know who that person was, and when he got back into his makeup I was far more comfortable.”

    “Suicide Squad” hits theaters in August 2016.

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