The Suicide Squad is the Suicide Squad from the brain of one of the most amazingly twisted creative minds in James Gunn that I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting.”
However, John Cena — who plays Peacemaker in the movie — would describe it as neither.
A follow-up to David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, the movie is the tenth installment in the DC Extended Universe.
Due to its placement in the DCEU, The Suicide Squad will chronologically still act as a sequel to Suicide Squad.