{"id":71113,"date":"2015-01-22T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=71113"},"modified":"2015-01-22T14:25:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:25:36","slug":"suicide-squad-loses-another-rick-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/suicide-squad-loses-another-rick-flag\/","title":{"rendered":"Suicide Squad in trouble as Tom Hardy replacement passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71116\" style=\"width: 616px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nightcrawler-Jake-Gyllenhaal.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71116\" alt=\"Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nightcrawler-Jake-Gyllenhaal.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nightcrawler-Jake-Gyllenhaal.jpg 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nightcrawler-Jake-Gyllenhaal-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nightcrawler-Jake-Gyllenhaal-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Nightcrawler-Jake-Gyllenhaal-510x286.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jake Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Following the news that Tom Hardy had dropped out of David Ayer&#8217;s <strong><em>Suicide Squad<\/em> <\/strong>movie, it was heavily rumoured that Ayer&#8217;s <strong><em>End Of Watch<\/em><\/strong> star Jake Gyllenhaal would step into the role of Rick Flag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2015\/film\/news\/jake-gyllenhaal-suicide-squad-rick-flag-1201411414\/\">Variety<\/a> reports that this will not be the case. The <strong><em>Nightcrawler<\/em><\/strong> star will not be appearing in <strong><em>Suicide Squad<\/em><\/strong>, and the hunt is still on for a Hardy replacement. Gyllenhaal is currently busy on Broadway but there&#8217;s not been a reason given for his passing on the project.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Suicide Squad<\/em><\/strong> stars Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Cara Delevingne and Viola Davis, and is currently set to start filming in April. The hunt for a suitable Hardy replacement continues&#8230;<\/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&#8217;s Suicide Squad still needs a Rick Flag as rumoured Tom Hardy replacement drops put<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":71115,"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":[944,4035],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Rick-Flag.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71113"}],"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=71113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}