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11/10/09
11/10/09
Hell Yeah! Amanda "The Wall" Waller is one of the best characters in the DC Universe. She kicked ass in the recent Checkmate by Greg Rucka. Pam Grier is worthy of this role however everyone knows that CC Pounder was born to play Amanda Waller. #smallville
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02/27/09
In other news, I'm a big fan of the original series, as it bothered to do things like setup and tension - too many comics have boiled themselves down to the bare minimum between fight scenes and/or splash pages, but there was actual narrative going on in there, with some decent characterization. Amanda Waller is one of the great creations of that era of comics, one that's been sadly under/misused in recent years. (She's a *boss* character, she's not "one of four administrators", and She's Got A Plan. Hell, she's able to face down Batman (one of the *great* Batman sequences of all time,) which is not easy to do ... but you put her in a position where she can't move, and she just becomes whiny.)
That said, yeah, the Squad would work better as a TV series than as a film ... Mission: Impossible with casualties and special effects ... but in film terms, it has one HUGE advantage if it becomes a hit. We can't have another X-Men film because the asking price of *all* the actors is through the roof, so we have to cherrypick and get X-Men: Wolverine. But the Squad ... well, if one actor's too expensive, his or her character gets a bullet in the back of the head in between movies, and everybody moves on.
02/27/09
So start it up with a theatrical movie, and then jump the property to TV. But I like the idea of taking out any characters that become too costly for what they bring to the table.
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and doesn't the suicide squad have like 100+ characters - that's gonna be one helluvan ensemble cast.
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