The Suicide Squad

HBO Max is preparing another spinoff series from The Suicide Squad, this time focusing on Viola Davis' Amanda Waller.

HBO Max itself is undergoing a bit of an upheaval, as the newly-merged Warner Bros Discovery will be combining that service and Discovery+ into a single product. James Gunn will not be writing this series, despite it spinning out of Peacemaker. He will executive producer alongside Davis, Peter Safran, and Christal Henry who will be stepping up to write the series. Now it seems that Amanda Waller, who featured in Suicide Squad, The Suicide Squad, and Peacemaker, is getting her own time in the spotlight.

Viola Davis is reportedly in talks to reprise her role in a new Suicide Squad spin-off for HBO Max, with James Gunn also on board.

From Gunn’s frequent Twitter postings, there is every chance that we could see a lot more from the members of The Suicide Squad in the future. While Gunn is currently in the last weeks of filming on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 for Marvel Studios, he will be returning to Warner Bros. for a second season of Peacemaker, and it looks like he will now have a hand in the Amanda Waller series. The cat may be out of the bag about the second secret Suicide Squad TV series James Gunn has been working on.

Following what went down in The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, it looks like Viola Davis' Amanda Waller is getting her own spinoff show.

However, following the defeat of the Butterflies (parasitic-like alien creatures that took control of human bodies), Leota went to the press in the Peacemaker Season 1 finale to expose Project Butterfly, Task Force X (a.k.a. the Suicide Squad) and Waller’s role in all of it as A.R.G.U.S. director to the public. Assuming this Amanda Waller series is indeed getting underway, it will mark Viola Davis’ latest venture into the TV realm. Now it looks like Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller will be the next Suicide Squad character to star in her own show.

Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn · Idris Elba as Bloodsport · John Cena as Peacemaker · Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag · Viola Davis as Amanda Waller · David Dastmalchian ...

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