Breaking Down Every Character From The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad will feature a slew of new-to-the-silver-screen faces and we’ve got the scoop on who they are and what they do. Here’s a breakdown of every new character in The Suicide Squad roll call. When Idris Elba’s name first cropped up in connection with The Suicide Squad, it was as a reported replacement for Will Smith’s Deadshot. Smith, who appeared as the smart-mouthed assassin in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, had to drop out of Gunn’s project due to scheduling conflicts. Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment executives may have initially wanted to have Deadshot in the follow-up no matter what, but soon, it was confirmed that Elba wasn’t going to take Smith’s spot after all. Instead, he’d be playing an entirely different character not yet seen on the silver screen. DC FanDome confirms that Elba is playing Bloodsport in The Suicide Squad. Three different people have taken on the Bloodsport moniker in the DC comics, but Elba is playing the original: Robert