James Gunn talks The Suicide Squad: "Warner Bros. کہا 'You can kill anyone'" 

"They said I could keep [all the characters] or do away with them all," he tells Total Film in the new issue, headlined by The Suicide Squad. "I could do a completely new squad – which I considered – and they said, 'You can kill anyone.' Warner were pretty much on board [with the story] from the beginning – it was pretty much firmly in place from the inception of me taking on the project. They were very trusting of me throughout the entire process, almost to the degree to which I was frightened, because it really is all me, 100 per cent – there's no one to blame if something goes wrong, except for myself!"

Does that mean Harley Quinn, King Shark, and Bloodsport are all dead meat? Well, you will have to wait and find out. Gunn also spoke about how Warner Bros. approached him about the project, with the studio offering the filmmaker any DC property, including Superman.

"Warner came a-calling pretty immediately upon the news," Gunn recalls, referring to the news that Disney had removed him from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (he was later reinstated as director). "I think everything kind of went down [with Disney] on like a Friday, and I think by Monday, Warners were trying to get a hold of me to talk to me about Superman and a bunch of other stuff. But it took me a little while to decide what I was going to do – I really just needed to take care of myself from an emotional and spiritual place.

*seethes in Snyder Slo-Mo*

You "kill anyone" from David Ayer's Suicide Squad and see what happens, Marvel Reject.

God, I hate Warner Bros.