the Suicide Squad Proposal

A few posts ago I discussed DC and Marvel’s plans for the small screen, and now I have decided that I wanted to make my own recommendations for shows that I would love to see on television.  And the Suicide Squad was the first thing that popped into my head. The Suicide Squad is a team of B and C list Super villains who are inmates at Belle Reve Penitentiary that the U.S. government has deemed useful. The team is essentially a super-villain Black Ops group who the government has blackmailed and threatened into serving their country.  They are led by government Agent Amanda Waller a.k.a. “The Wall” who gives the group their assignments and keeps them in check on their missions.  The suicide Squad could work perfectly for a DC Televised Universe that coexist with the CW’s Arrow because the suicide squad can easily be cast by super-powerless villains which would help maintaining the realism that Arrow prides itself on.  As for the cast, you have to have the team’s field leader the assassin Deadshot, who has already made several appearances on Arrow. The calculating Clock King is known or his strategic planning and the show could benefit from having a calm and collected member who is forced to work with spontaneous and irrational teammates. Plastique, the bombs and weapons expert could be part of the teams muscle. And speaking of muscle Captain Boomerang, who is known for constantly bickering and disobeying Deadshots’ orders could do wonders for the show and provide us with some comic relief. With this cast the show would not have to worry about spending a huge portion of its budget on low end CGI, a problem Smallville faced, and it could focus its budget on other things such as actors or locations. The focus of the Suicide Squad should be how these different characters struggle to achieve their tasks working with one another, as well as the problems they face being pawns of the government. The Suicide Squad should also be about how the United States’ deals with domestic terrorism in the DC universe.  An obviously this show should be on the CW, so that it make a plethora of references to Arrow, and hell maybe we could even see a crossover event. I think the suicide squad has the potential to be one of DC entertainments greatest hits if it is down well and sticks to the realism that has made Arrow successful. So what do you think? Do you think the Suicide Squad has the potentially to shine on network television or is there another show you would love to see DC Entertainment develop that co-mingles with Arrow? Do want the Suicide Squad to be realist or would you prefer to have the show relate more to its comic counterpart?  Finally, which super-villains would you like to see as part of the team? Leave your comments down below. And look for my other recommendations in the future.

DC and Marvel Suit Up for the Television War!

With Marvel’s Agents of Shield coming to television this September, we see a new conflict arising between DC and Marvel comics. This rivalry between these two franchises was born in comics and then moved to animation, and is currently being fought in the realm of film with DC kicking off their cinematic universe with Man of Steel (review coming later).  Now we see that this competition has moved to live-action television. The CW’s first season of arrow was considered such a success that there were rumors floating around the internet that DC decided to create a DC televised universe. These rumors soon became somewhat true once news arrived that the CW was pushing forward with its new Wonder Woman show titled Amazon, as well as Eric Kripke’s (the creator of Supernatural) the Deadman, and that Sci-Fi has green lit a Booster Gold television show. Now the interesting thing about these developments is that there has been no news confirming that any of these planned shows will be tied to Arrow or to each other, but they are all DC and Warner Bros. properties. Do you think DC does not want to draw lines between these shows between they will more likely than not have opposing tones?  Should these three new TV shows be interconnected with arrow or should day all represent their own respective universes and honor the character that they are being created for? I guess only time will tell. Also, I find it interesting that Marvel has decided to make their Shield live-action television show connect to their cinematic universe. Many feel that by adding this TV show to their cinematic universe it will subtract from the greatness of those films. What do you guys think? Do you think that the Marvel universe will suffer from having a television show absorbing some of its material or do you think that having the show share a universe with the films will contribute to success of future films? Also what other characters would you like to see it show up on your screen at home?