James Gunn ‘Grateful’ After ‘The Suicide Squad’ Red Band Trailer Gets 150 Million Views

DC Comics movie comes from the “Horribly Beautiful Mind of James Gunn,” in case you were wondering

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Director James Gunn is “grateful” after the red band trailer for “The Suicide Squad” set a new record for most views of a red band trailer in a week with over 150 million views worldwide.

“I’m incredibly grateful to all of you for making this happen,” Gunn says in a post on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/1378125668089667584

You can watch the red band trailer here.

Right off the bat you can tell this is a James Gunn movie through and through. Unlike the brazen attempt to mimic “Guardians of the Galaxy” that the original “Suicide Squad” was cut into during post production, this is the real deal, full of Gunn touchstones like awkward banter, actually good jokes, and a soundtrack built on actually interesting choices and surprisingly deep cuts (in this case, Steely Dan’s excellent “Dirty Work”) instead of the most obvious, famous choices possible.

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