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– David Ayer wants Suicide Squad 2: Squad Harder to be Rated R because of course he does. In related news, the upcoming animated adaptation of The Killing Joke is going to be Rated R because of course it is.
– Tom Hiddleston wants Loki to clash with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Dr. Strange in an upcoming MCU movie, in an effort to see who can make 2013 Tumblr explode the hardest.
– Here’s your first look at Scarlet Johansson as Motoko Kusanagi in the upcoming Ghost in the Shell movie. Coincidentally, the trailer for the American adaptation of Akira also dropped last night.
– A couple of studios are currently bidding for the rights to make a Pokemon movie. We won’t know who’s going to direct or be in this inevitable film, but it’ll probably involve Jared Leto in yellow face paint shocking his fellow cast members with car batteries to Twitter acclaim.
