Who do you kill? Why do you kill them? These are the kinds of tough questions only storytellers can ask without getting arrested, and they’re exactly the kinds of questions James Gunn had to wrestle with while writing The Suicide Squad, which he talks about in a new interview on the official DC Comics blog. Don’t worry–there are no spoilers to be had here.
“There were a certain number of characters that I knew were going to die from the time I put them in the movie,” Gunn said. “When I first pitched this idea to Warner Bros., I went into [Warner Bros. Film Chairman] Toby Emmerich’s office and I had made copies or made photos of every single character and I had them all on a wall because it’s a lot of characters. To throw, like, Mongal at Toby Emmerich can be really confusing. Going through them in that way, I knew some characters were going to die early and then other characters died as I told the story.”