Idris Elba Needs His ‘Suicide Squad’ Villain to Battle Superman

The Suicide Squad needed to introduce a slew of latest characters in a matter of minutes. That required some intelligent storytelling on the a part of author/director James Gunn. To determine the bonafides of the workforce’s new chief, Bloodsport, he tossed off the character’s felony previous in a single line: He’s in jail as a result of he shot Superman with a kryptonite bullet, which the viewers instantly understands is one thing solely an murderer of the best caliber (sorry) may do.

However for Idris Elba, the man who performed Bloodsport, that line is greater than a fast little bit of expository dialogue. He thinks it ought to be a film of its personal . In an interview with Selection, he mentioned “I’d positively like to inform the Superman story. There’s little question: Bloodsport versus Superman. It must occur.“

The way forward for The Suicide Squad sequence, and actually all the DC film universe, is presently up within the air — or floating out in orbit across the Earth someplace. Warner Bros. has a number of high-profile releases together with Black Adam, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, and The Flash, however they’ve additionally canceled at the least one film that was in manufacturing. The Suicide Squad obtained an HBO Max spinoff from James Gunn about John Cena’s Peacemaker, and a second season of the present is supposedly deliberate. However Gunn is presently again over at Marvel engaged on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, leaving the remainder of the Suicide Squad’s standing unclear.

It’s additionally not fully clear who’s or would play Superman in any DC mission in the intervening time, that means if Idris Elba did persuade Warners executives to let him combat Superman he might have to search out somebody to take the half first. Within the meantime, Elba will subsequent be seen within the survival thriller Beast, which opens in theaters on August 19.