Suicide Squad 2s R Rating Will Work Thanks To The MCU

Suicide Squad 2’s R Rating Will Work Thanks To The MCU

Thanks to his experience with MCU, former Troma director James Gunn will be able to make The Suicide Squad’s R-rating work for the superhero reboot.

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Suicide Squad 2s R Rating Will Work Thanks To The MCU

Thanks to his experience with MCU, director James Gunn will be able to make The Suicide Squad’s R-rating work for the superhero reboot. Released in 2016, Training Day director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad was an infamously messy and tonally disastrous story of supervillains teaming up to take on a foe even deadlier than themselves. This time around, Gunn is aiming to keep the characterizations and grittiness but balance it out overall.

Recut and reshot to lighten its dark tone, the finished Suicide Squad was a victim of inconsistent production, and the cinematic release was an uneven movie that drew criticism for bouncing between bloody black comedy and more conventional super-heroics without rhyme or reason. Now Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has been tapped to reboot the franchise with the upcoming The Suicide Squad, and the director has been blessed with an all-important R-rating to make the reboot work.

However, without his time in the MCU, Gunn would likely have been unable to pull off the tricky tonal balancing act of a big-budget R-rated superhero movie. This won’t be the first (or even second) time that Gunn, who helmed both Guardians of the Galaxy movies, has directed an adults-only superhero movie. But both of his earlier outings, 2000’s largely forgotten cult curio The Specials and 2010’s infamously dark Rainn Wilson vehicle Super, feature much more bleak, brutal, and more profane uses of the R-rating than The Suicide Squad will require. Fortunately, the two Guardians of the Galaxy movies have already proven Gunn is capable of telling a likable, tense, and funny superhero story even without an R-rating, meaning he’ll be able to maintain a fun tone even with the option of added adult content.

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Without his experience working within the creative confines of the MCU, it’s unlikely that Troma graduate Gunn would have been able to balance gross-out gory humor and the big-budget blockbuster appeal of superhero stories. Both Deadpool movies managed to successfully balance brutal violence and sweary scripts with a (relatively) sunny tone and happy-go-lucky atmosphere, never becoming too self-serious to work as superhero stories. Logan, meanwhile, leaned into the darker and more serious tone an R-rating allowed, but that elegiac blockbuster had a much more self-serious protagonist than the blackly comic The Suicide Squad (whose very team name is itself a dark joke).

Super, in contrast, plays a rape scene for awkward laughs and kills off most of its cast before the brutal (but blackly funny) closing scene. At one point, even the movie’s protagonist beats a man into a bloody mess for cutting in line. The Specials is similarly dark in its subversion of superhero tropes, and in terms of tone, the movie skews closer to a Troma outing than a mainstream superhero blockbuster. As a result, the Guardians of the Galaxy series have acted as a proving ground for Gunn’s ability to tell a more light-hearted and less grim sort of superhero story. Now with two MCU outings under his belt, the director can use the newfound freedom of The Suicide Squad’s R-rating to reuse Deadpool 2’s funniest gag, rather than relying on “comedic” sexual assault scenes and disturbingly graphic gore.

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