David Ayer on the Pressures of Adapting The Joker for 'Suicide Squad'
With the wait for Suicide Squad becoming smaller and smaller, director David Ayer spoke with Total Film Magazine on the challenges he faced. Those challenges, ultimately, are what enticed him to take the job in the first place.
"...With bad guys it's more of a creative challenge - How do you get an audience to like a villain?" He expanded on it, referring to a need to "be true to the source material" but also ground it by giving "the characters a real psychology and make them feel of our world.
"For me the fun is creating that illusion that you can walk down the street and run into Harley Quinn, or see the Joker driving along." He then elaborated on the Joker. "You're looking at one of the best-known villains in western literature.
"He has to be very respectful and elegantly crafted, because you're following in the footsteps of giants. He's very loyal to the canon, but with some modern twists... With Jared, it's interesting because how do you come at that character? It's like treading on hallowed ground.
"It requires a strange combination of both respect and fearlessness. I don't want to reveal too much about the magic trick..."
Film producer Charles Roven did tease the true antagonists to come. “Let’s just say, when they’re called in to do this mission by Amanda, these are one of the things they encounter.
“They don’t know how they got here, but they’re weird and dangerous and yet they’re wearing military uniforms.”
Source: Comingsoon
