Idris Elba will apparently play some other character in James Gunn\u2019s The Suicide Squad, and not Deadshot according to Variety. Elba was reportedly replacing Will Smith in the role. Smith had played the role in 2016\u2019s Suicide Squad. Idris Elba is no stranger to comic-book movies. He has previously appeared in Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s films as Heimdall, Thor\u2019s friend and the guardian of the Bifrost Bridge that is the entrance of Asgard. He made his last appearance as the character in Avengers: Infinity War. The Suicide Squad is slated for release on August 6, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Idris Elba will apparently play some other character in James Gunn\u2019s The Suicide Squad, and not Deadshot according to Variety. Elba was reportedly replacing Will Smith in the role. Smith had played the role in 2016\u2019s Suicide Squad. Idris Elba is no stranger to comic-book movies. He has previously appeared in Marvel Cinematic Universe\u2019s films …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[6247,5557,6251,6250,6252,6246,6249,6243,6242,6245,6248,6244,1400],"class_list":["post-3490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","tag-2016s-suicide-squad","tag-5557","tag-august-6","tag-avengers-infinity-war","tag-bifrost-bridge","tag-deadshot","tag-guardian-of-the-bifrost-bridge","tag-idris-elba","tag-idris-elba-will-play-a-new-character-in-the-suicide-squad","tag-james-gunn","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-the-suicide-squad","tag-will-smith"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3490\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zaanews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}