Taika Waititi in talks to join the wacky party that James Gunn is calling a Suicide Squad movie

At the risk introducing a controversial new conspiracy theory, is it possible that James Gunn’s Suicide Squad reboot/remake isn’t a real movie? Right now, it seems suspiciously like an excuse for Gunn to just hang out with some cool friends and famous actors. It was already a little weird that Warner Bros.’ reaction to the undeniable popularity of the super-edgy original film was to hand the series over to a guy who is most famous now for making a couple of relatively lighthearted sci-fi hang-out movies for DC’s crosstown rivals, and that was before he started casting people like Idris Elba, Flula Borg, Nathan Fillion, Steve Agee, and David Dastmalchian—plus returning big stars like Viola Davis and Margot Robbie (not to mention Jai Courtney who is… also going to be there).