‘Suicide Squad’ Trailer Prompted Reshoots: New Soundtrack Song Choices Basic AF

According to Devin Faraci of Birth.Movies.Death the popularity of the Suicide Squad trailer featuring Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” pushed Warner Bros. to reconsider the tone of the entire movie, eventually opting for reshoots to make the movie funnier and more lighthearted. According to Faraci’s source, “every joke in the movie is in that trailer.”

The scoop proved to be divisive, with Suicide Squad director David Ayers denying that the reshoots had anything to do with altering the movie’s tone:

Faraci’s response was terse:

Here's the trailer that changed the fate of Suicide Squad:

But it now seems “Bohemian Rhapsody” will result in more changes to Suicide Squad than just new jokes, with Warner Bros. diving through pop music history in an effort to pull off a Guardians of the Galaxy mixtape-like tone. What they’ve come up with is worrisome:

If the Beastie Boys weren’t already overplayed enough in movies, surely J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek films have dragged their songs well over the acceptable threshold. As for The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil” has appeared in dozens of movies and TV shows, including last year’s Will Smith movie, Focus.

While relying on familiarity may work for a trailer, there’s nothing much more off-putting than a new, big-budget film picking tracks you’ve heard ten thousand times in your uncle’s pickup truck because he had long since given up on listening to new music, preferring instead the dubious comforts of endless, warming repetition.