Netflix trolls The Suicide Squad with a trailer for another, ambiguously comparative comic book adaptation, 2010’s The Losers. Writer/director James Gunn’s continuation and spiritual reboot of David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (2016), The Suicide Squad, delivers on HBO Max and in theaters this week. The adaptation of John Ostrander’s comic sees Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) recruit novices including Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), and King Shark (Sylvester Stallone) to join Rick Flag’s (Joel Kinnaman) Task Force X. Close by natural faces like Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), this new squad of oddball supervillains is sent on yet another suicide mission.
Netflix recently posted a trailer for director Sylvain White’s The Losers to its official Twitter account. The comic book adaptation hit the streamer’s main movie spot this week and Netflix hopes to capitalize on its momentum as The Suicide Squad plans to takeover HBO Max. Look at Netflix’s semi brilliant troll beneath:
The Losers was adapted from Andy Diggle’s DC Vertigo comic book series of a similar name. It was written by Peter Berg and James Vanderbilt and stars Elba, Chris Evans, Zoe Saldana, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Columbus Short. As Morgan’s character says in the trailer, “C.I.A.? N.S.A.? Exceptional Forces? We’re not them—[they’re] the losers.” Losers sent on a destined mission. In addition to being founded on a comic book and featuring a very type shrewd cast, The Losers came out that very year as Iron Man 2, Kick-Ass, and Jonah Hex. That said, The Losers got blended surveys from critics and lost in the cinema world, making generally $29 million on a $25 million budget.
Similar to The Suicide Squad, The Losers centers around a gathering of misfits, blasts, and the approaching possibility of betrayal. Dissimilar to The Suicide Squad, The Losers is rated PG-13 and attracted many correlations with The A-Team, another film that came out that year about a Special Forces team leaving on an apparently unimaginable mission. While one would be excused for watching the opening seconds of The Loser’s trailer and think it’s for The Suicide Squad, Gunn’s film is a lot bloodier, more crazy, and nothing like The A-Team.