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The future’s looking Bright for Will Smith, as Netflix has just officially announced a sequel to David Ayer and Max Landis’ fantasy hodgepodge. According to this video from the streaming giant, fans of the uninspired quips and underdeveloped racial parable are apparently already lining up to don prosthetics to join…

Finally, high fantasy for the sunglasses-on-the-back-of-the-head set. If nothing else, you have to admire the audacity of the Netflix executives who greenlit Bright: The core conceit of this film—a violent, R-rated cop movie that just so happens to have fantasy creatures in it—is so batshit bonkers that it’s kind of…

David Ayer’s Bright comes to Netflix in only 10 days, but everybody seems more excited about some other big sci-fi/fantasy movie that you actually have to leave your house to see. That movie may have laser swords and bird creatures, but Bright has at least one thing it doesn’t have: A horrifying metal ballad that is…

The first teaser for David Ayer’s new Netflix movie Bright only gave glimpses of the film’s weird fantasy-ish setting, but this full trailer revealed at Comic-Con dives into the weirdness headfirst. According to The Hollywood Reporter, star Will Smith joked during the film’s panel that it was fun to “to be an…

Another big-name action director has parted ways with the upcoming Scarface remake, with Variety reporting that Suicide Squad leader David Ayer, who was rumored to be attached to the project earlier this year, has dropped out. Ayer follows in the footsteps of Training Day director Antoine Fuqua, who said goodbye to…

In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then, when you get the money, you get the power. Then, when you get the power, you get to helm ill-timed remakes of movies about bloodthirsty Latino stereotypes. This is the experience of David Ayer, whom Deadline reports is in talks to direct the latest iteration of …

Say what you will about Suicide Squad (you already have), but Margot Robbie managed to transcend the dreck and turn in a great performance as Harley Quinn. She’s the reason we’re cautiously optimistic about the developing Gotham City Sirens movie; Squad director David Ayer’s involvement, meanwhile, tempers our…

Considering all that took place after it debuted in August, Suicide Squad is one of 2016’s more minor abominations. It didn’t even land on The A.V. Club’s worst films of the year list, despite the critical drubbing it received upon release. Director David Ayer, however, is apparently working through some feelings…

Back in May, we reported that Suicide Squad star Margot Robbie had secretly pitched Warner Bros. and DC on an all-female superhero movie that would feature her reprising her role as Harley Quinn and teaming up with an unnamed assortment of heroes/villains. At the time, the rumor was that this project would be based…

It’s strange it didn’t happen sooner: Honest Trailers has finally come out with its sardonic, blistering take on David Ayer’s beleaguered Suicide Squad, the star-studded movie that was supposed to right DC’s ship and definitely did not. Honest Trailers creator Andy Signore and his writer have plenty of fun pointing…

In what amounts to a pretty blatant case of false advertising, the posters and trailers for David Ayers’ Suicide Squad seemed to suggest that Jared Leto’s buff, inked-up Joker would get plenty of screen time in the final movie. Many fans were disappointed, then, when the iconic character was marginalized in the…

Variety is reporting that Orange Is The New Black’s Brad William Henke has been cast in Bright, Netflix’s most expensive feature-length production to date with a production budget of $90 million. Henke is the latest addition to the project, joining Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Noomi Rapace, and Lucy Fry. Bright will…

Not long after the U.S. got involved in World War II, the Office Of Naval Intelligence struck a deal with the Jewish mob and the Italian crime families of New York to put the screws to the longshoremen’s unions and keep supply ships on the Northeastern seaboard safe from the presumed threat of Nazi saboteurs. The net…

Ever since the initial trailer for David Ayer’s upcoming DC comic-book adaptation Suicide Squad first surfaced, the whole ad campaign has been, roughly (and we’re paraphrasing here): “Fuck yeah! Badass supervillain team-up action comin’ at ya hardcore-style, motherfuckers!” Indeed, meeting a whole crew of what seemed…

The Wrap reports that Will Smith and Joel Edgerton are teaming up for Bright, a cop thriller with “fantasy elements,” that will see one or both of the leads play an Orc cop. Suicide Squad’s David Ayer is directing the film, which is being written by Max Landis (Victor Frankenstein, Chronicle). The film is set in a…

In a move that will surprise no one, David Ayer’s Suicide Squad will be rated PG-13—or, as producer Charles Roven puts it, “Right there on the edge of PG-13, but still PG-13,” splitting the difference between the guy who has been reading Suicide Squad since the ’80s and all those ticket sales from those who are under…

It’s picture day at Belle Reve Penitentiary, and everyone in Task Force X—better known as The Suicide Squad—is looking their best. Deadshot has shined his head, Captain Boomerang has put on his best duct-taped pants, and Harley Quinn has torn her clothes in a way that’s just edgy enough to get attention without being…

As the Joker says in The Dark Knight, “Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.” Well, internet, consider this your push: According to extremely dubious set photos that we have absolutely no reason to accept as legitimate, the Joker might not really have tattoos in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad movie. That…