{"id":70891,"date":"2015-01-16T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T07:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=70891"},"modified":"2015-01-16T07:34:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T07:34:53","slug":"suicide-squad-tom-hardy-is-out-but-check-out-who-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/suicide-squad-tom-hardy-is-out-but-check-out-who-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Squad: Tom Hardy is out, but check out who is in&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70893\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70893\" style=\"width: 1205px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70893\" alt=\"Rick Flag Jr kicking ass in Suicide Squad\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall.jpg\" width=\"1205\" height=\"868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall.jpg 1205w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall-600x432.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall-616x444.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1205px) 100vw, 1205px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rick Flag Jr kicking ass in Suicide Squad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/tom-hardy-drops-suicide-squad-764095\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em><\/a>, scheduling conflicts have reared their head and look to be preventing\u00a0<em><strong>The Dark Knight Rises<\/strong><\/em> star Tom Hardy from making his return to the DC universe as Rick Flag Jr in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/suicide-squad-cast-confirmed-and-its-huge\/\"> David Ayer&#8217;s eagerly anticipated <em><strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hardy is currently filming\u00a0<em><strong>The Revenant<\/strong><\/em> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/birdman-why-michael-keaton-deserves-his-golden-globe\/\"><em><strong>Birdman<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu and the site reports that filming has seriously overrun.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/jake-gyllenhaal-eyed-to-replace-tom-hardy-in-david-ayers-suicide-squad-exclusive\/\"><em>The Wrap<\/em><\/a>, David Ayer is waiting around for a fix and has reached out to his <em><strong>End Of Watch<\/strong><\/em> co-star Jake Gyllenhall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DIrv11c.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70892 aligncenter\" alt=\"DIrv11c\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DIrv11c.gif\" width=\"350\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gyllenhall is a fantastically atypical choice. Hardy may be the thinking man&#8217;s tough guy, but Gyllenhall is the tortured man&#8217;s tough guy and is at the top of his game thanks to the aforementioned <em><strong>End Of Watch<\/strong><\/em>, as well as thrillers <em><strong>Prisoners<\/strong> <\/em>and <em><strong>Nightcrawler<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact he&#8217;s played a detective called Loki and the lead in <em><strong>Nightcrawler<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong><\/em> will be his first comic-book role.<\/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>David Ayer has a credible replacement in mind for Tom Hardy in the Suicide Squad movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":70893,"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],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Suicide-Squad-Jake-Gyllenhall.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70891"}],"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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}