{"id":69994,"date":"2014-12-17T17:12:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=69994"},"modified":"2014-12-17T17:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:12:18","slug":"suicide-squad-casts-oscar-nominee-as-amanda-waller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/suicide-squad-casts-oscar-nominee-as-amanda-waller\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Squad casts Oscar nominee as Amanda Waller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Amanda_Waller.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69995\" alt=\"Amanda_Waller\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Amanda_Waller.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Amanda_Waller.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Amanda_Waller-300x134.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a>It looks like David Ayer&#8217;s <strong><em>Suicide Squad<\/em><\/strong> might have found its Amanda Waller.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69996\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Viola-Davis.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69996\" alt=\"Viola Davis in How To Get Away With Murder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Viola-Davis.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Viola-Davis.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Viola-Davis-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viola Davis in How To Get Away With Murder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Scoop farmers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latino-review.com\/news\/exclusive-viola-davis-bags-amanda-waller-role-in-suicide-squad\">Latino Review<\/a> reports that Viola Davis, the Oscar nominated star of <strong><em>The Help<\/em> <\/strong>and <strong><em>Doubt<\/em><\/strong>, has been offered the role of Waller, the prison warden charged with sending the <strong><em>Suicide Squad<\/em><\/strong> on their missions. She&#8217;s all business and she&#8217;s got the kind of cold bloodedness required to send mass-murders and psychopaths on government sanctioned operations.<\/p>\n<p>The problem might be that Davis has a packed schedule. She&#8217;s currently starring on Shonda Rhimes&#8217; latest show, <strong><em>How To Get Away With Murder<\/em><\/strong>, which might make starring in a mega blockbuster kind of tricky. Still, Latino Review say the role is hers if she wants it.<\/p>\n<p>Davis was previously said to be one of the final three in contention for the role, along with Oprah Winfrey and Davis&#8217; <strong><em>The Help<\/em><\/strong> co-star Octavia Spencer.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Suicide Squad<\/em>\u00a0is set for release in cinemas 5 August 2016.\u00a0<strong><strong>For more on the comics that have inspired the movie, pick up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/bookazines\/100-all-time-greatest-comics.html\">our 100 All-Time Greatest Comics bookazine now!<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Suicide Squad might have found their boss as Oscar nominee is cast as Amanda Waller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":69995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4035,4233],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Amanda_Waller.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69994"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}