Terminator: Genisys star Jai Courtney is in talks to join director David Ayer’s DC Entertainment film Suicide Squad. According to Variety, he’s up for the role of the Batman villain known as Deadshot.
The site also confirms that Tom Hardy, Will Smith, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto are in various stages of discussions to join the film. It was recently rumored that Leto is up for the role of The Joker, and Robbie could be cast as Harley Quinn. As for Hardy, he is looking to play founding team member Rick Flagg, and Smith might be up for the role of Digger Harkness, aka Captain Boomerang, who is a villain of The Flash. Jesse Eisenberg, who co-stars in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice as Lex Luthor, may also be joining the project.
Suicide Squad is based on the DC comic book, and the story centers on a team of super villains who are given a chance at redemption by the government by taking on missions that will probably kill them.
Courtney has also starred in Divergent, Jack Reacher, and A Good Day to Die Hard. He’s got that hard look that you’d want to see in an actor who plays Deadshot, though, so lets see how this turns out.
The film is slated for release on August 5th, 2016.
