The Suicide Squad director James Gunn has revealed that one character who many presumed dead actually showed signs of life if you looked close enough.
During a virtual watch party for the movie on Monday night, Gunn took to Twitter to share some behind-the-scenes secrets and tidbits of trivia about The Suicide Squad that fans may have missed on their first viewings of the film. In one tweet, the filmmaker encouraged fans to look out for a very important detail surrounding the supposed death of Nathan Fillion's T.D.K.
Important to note if you look at the life signals in the Comms hub TDK isn’t dead. @NathanFillion #TSSWatchParty
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) August 31, 2021
"Important to note if you look at the life signals in the Comms hub TDK isn't dead," Gunn tweeted during the watch-along. T.D.K. actor Nathan Fillion retweeted the director's note, adding in his own thoughts. "I noticed that very loudly when I saw this in the theater," he quote-retweeted in response. "Apologies again, for the disturbance."
Early on in the movie, T.D.K., aka The Detachable Kid, is called into action during Task Force X's beachhead assault on Corto Maltese. He detaches his arms, which hover across the beach to slap around the rebel gunmen. Needless to say, his slaps prove ineffective and the armless T.D.K. finds himself riddled with bullets, but that might not be the end for him after all.
At another point during The Suicide Squad watch party, Gunn was asked how many of The Suicide Squad characters will show up in his upcoming Peacemaker series on HBO Max. The director reeled off a list of names, including the most obvious one, John Cena's Peacemaker, together with "Emilia Harcourt, John Economos, and, well, heck maybe one more."
This prompted fans to speculate over which character Gunn may be alluding to in his tweet, with some now citing T.D.K. as a potential candidate for a return. Fillion reteamed with Gunn for The Suicide Squad after appearing in a cameo role in Guardians of the Galaxy as well as starring in Slither and co-starring in Super, all of which were helmed by the director.
It remains to be seen whether they have reunited again for HBO Max's Peacemaker. The series is set to debut in January 2022, with Danielle Brooks in the cast as Leota Adebayo, with Robert Patrick as Auggie Smith, Chris Conrad as Vigilante/Adrian Chase, and Nhut Le as Judomaster alongside Jennifer Holland's Harcourt and Steve Agee's Economos.
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