‘The Suicide Squad’ Cast Adds Storm Reid As Idris Elba’s Daughter
We still don’t know who Idris Elba is playing inJames Gunn’sSuicide SquadsequelThe Suicide Squad. But here’s something we do know: his character has a daughter.A Wrinkle in TimeactressStorm Reidhas just joinedThe Suicide Squadcast as Elba’s daughter.
This certainly seems like a holdover from the original plan to have Elba play Deadshot, since Deadshot had a daughter in the first film. But after Elba was cast as Deadshot, it was then decided to have him play a different character, in case O.G. Deadshot Will Smith might want to return for future sequels.
THRbroke the news that Storm Reid is joiningThe Suicide Squadcast. As they report, “Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is known that Reid will play the daughter of Elba’s character, which is also being kept under a cloak of mystery.” Again, this gives me the impression that Gunn simply took his original script, which had Deadshot as a main character, and swapped out the character name to whomever Elba is playing now.
Reid has been acting since 2012, but she broke out in a big way with 2018’sA Wrinkle in Time. She recently appeared in the Netflix mini-seriesWhen They See Us, and currently be seen in the HBO seriesEuphoria. She also recently joined the cast of Leigh Whannell’sThe Invisible Man, starring Elisabeth Moss.
In addition to Reid and Elba,The Suicide SquadfeaturesMargot Robbie,Joel Kinnaman,Jai Courtney,Viola Davis,John CenaandDavid Dastmalchian. The originalSuicide Squadwas torn apart by critics, but it also did well at the box office – well enough for Warner Bros. and DC to want a sequel. As dire as the first film was, there’s hope for this sequel, thanks to the hiring of James Gunn.
Gunn landed theSuicide Squadgig after he was fired by Marvel. Marvel eventually went back on their decision, and rehired Gunn. He’ll now get to make bothThe Suicide SquadandGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. There’s a touch of irony here, since Warner Bros. originally wanted to sell the firstSuicide Squadas their ownGuardians of the Galaxy– a quirky team-up film with not-so-well-known characters.
