Will the Suicide Squad ever win over the hearts of the masses? The DC comic book team jumped to the big screen in 2016 with David Ayer’s lambasted Suicide Squad, which made for a better trailer than movie. Birds of Prey tried to give Margot Robbie her own moment, but that bombed. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy touch was supposed to redeem the villains with 2021’s The Suicide Squad, but the half-reboot, dropped in theaters and HBO Max on the same date, didn’t exactly pop. Max’s Peacemaker and Harley Quinn animated series have found success in a sitcom-ier mode, but it’s hard to call either a true Suicide Squad vehicle. Pray for Rocksteady Studios’ Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, which looks like fun… despite a number of delays.
Creature Commandos: David Harbour Teases DCU Live-Action Frankenstein
13.11.2023 - 17:17 / comingsoon.net / David Harbour / Peter Safran / James Gunn / Amanda Waller / Mark Ruffalo
During a recent appearance at the BoxLunch Holiday Gala, Stranger Things vet David Harbour opened up about playing Frankenstein in James Gunn’s highly-anticipated animated Max series. He expressed how much he loves the idea of being able to play the same character in both animation and live-action.
“All I know is the scripts are really good. What we recorded is really great,” Harbour teased (via Comic Book Movie). “I’ve seen the art. James is a genius. I think it’s going to be really fun and really exciting, and it opens up a whole new door to the DC Universe of how these characters will occupy the world. I like the concept of a live-action and cartoon back and forth.”
As for Frankenstein’s eventual transition to live-action, Harbour doesn’t know if the DC Studios will decide to put him in a motion capture suit or if he’ll be wearing a full-on prosthetics suit to bring the iconic monster to life.
“I mean, I don’t know how they do it nowadays,” Harbour said. “It feels like Mark Ruffalo just puts some dots on his face for the Hulk. But I don’t know how they’ll do it. I’ve worn prosthetics in movies before, I’m definitely down for it. I just love telling great stories that people love. I’m just happy to get back to work.”
Creature Commandos is based on the DC Comics team created by J.M. DeMatteis and Pat Broderick. The 7-episode series will feature the voices of Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Indira Varma as Bride of Frankenstein, David Harbour as Eric Frankenstein, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana Rostovic, Alan Tudyk as Doctor Phosphorus, Zoë Chao as Nina Mazursky, Sean Gunn as G.I. Robot/ Weasel, and Steve Agee as John Economos, with Viola Davis reprising Amanda Waller in animated form.
The series is created and written by Gunn. The upcoming TV adaptation serves as the first series of the rebooted DC Universe, which will be part of its first phase called Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. It is executive produced by Gunn, Peter Safran, and Sam Register. Producers are Lisa Hallbauer, Kip Brown and Karina Benesh.
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