'Suicide Squad' Cast Confirmed: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Tom Hardy On Board

 

Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Jared Leto and Margot Robbie will be starring in "Suicide Squad," Warner Bros. revealed on Tuesday. The film will also feature Jai Courtney and Cara Delevingne.

"Suicide Squad" is based on a DC Comic and centers on a group of supervillains who are tasked by the government to go on a mission that will offer them redemption but will likely kill them all. Leto will play the Joker, Smith will play Batman villain Deadshot, Hardy will play Rick Flagg, and Robbie will play Harley Quinn. Courtney has been cast as Boomerang and British model Delevingne has been cast as Enchantress, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Jesse Eisenberg was rumored to star in the project, but he's not part of the official casting. David Ayer is directing, and Charles Roven is producing. "Suicide Squad" will not relate to Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, which featured Heath Ledger as The Joker. Greg Silverman, president, creative development and worldwide production stated: "The Warner Bros. roots are deep on this one.

David Ayer returns to the studio where he wrote Training Day and brings his incredible ability to craft multidimensional villains to this iconic DC property with a cast of longtime Warner collaborators Will Smith and Tom Hardy, and other new and returning favorites: Margot, Jared, Jai and Cara. We look forward to seeing this terrific ensemble, under Ayer's amazing guidance, give new meaning to what it means to be a villain and what it means to be a hero."