Sean Ryan Talks Suicide Squad

Sean Ryan writes the New Suicide Squad Comic for DC Comics. While Sean Ryan is not directly involved with the upcoming movie, as someone currently writing the comic the movie is based on, might have some thoughts on the movie and casting. Comic Book Resources recently interviewed Sean Ryan about his run on the comic and they also talked about the upcoming film.

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On if Sean Ryan has accomplished what he’s wanted to do with the Suicide Squad comic so far:

"A lot of it was a good mix of excitement and also intimidation and fear because this is the first ongoing book that I’ve ever written. So it was a big exciting thing to be able to do but I’ve wanted to write comics forever — so exciting, but also, “Crap, now I have to do it!” But it was great to have “Suicide Squad” be the first thing I have to write because it had a lot of aspects of things I really like and feel I can do well. For me it was a perfect first thing to be able to do. We’re five issues in and so far I’m pretty pleased with how it’s been coming out, the tone of it and all that; we’ve been able to set up some of the things we have for big picture things later and I’m happy with the character interactions. Five issues in, I’m happy where it’s going. I don’t read a lot of reviews and such, so I hope in general people are liking it. We’ll see! [Laughs]"

On the cast announcements for the Suicide Squad movie:

"Yeah, I’ve been following it as much as anyone else is; I saw the casting new last week. To me it’s kind of crazy that there’s a “Suicide Squad” movie. For me it’s gone from me writing the book and telling people who don’t read comics what I do, from me saying, “I write ‘Suicide Squad'” and them being confused and not knowing what that is to all of sudden people think I’m now best friends with Will Smith and hanging out on weekends. I’m like, “No, no, no! [Laughs] I have nothing to do with that, I have nothing to do with the movie, no one tells me anything about that.”But it’s pretty neat that it’s a huge thing with Will Smith and Jared Leto. With the casting it’s nice to see what characters are going to be in the movie, just to see if moving forward in “Suicide Squad” we could try to maybe try to work some of the characters in the movie into the book. We’ll see. The Joker’s a tricky character to pin down."

Ryan’s Picks for a Suicide Squad team in terms of a movie or tv show:

"That’s a good question. I don’t know, I’m sort of partial to the old school Suicide Squad. I like Deadshot and I like Boomerang together, I like Rick Flagg as well, having a straight-laced military guy in there. Harley is good because she’s a good crazy person to have around. But like I said, I like the core team of Waller, Deadshot, Boomerang, Harley — if you told me I could use any characters, those would be the main ones I’d want."

You can read the rest of the interview in the link provided, as Sean Ryan talks a lot more about how the Suicide Squad comic has changed and more thoughts on the upcoming film. The New Suicide Squad comic is available now wherever comics are sold and The Suicide Squad movie is due out August 5th. 2016.

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