Amanda Waller Pulls the Strings of Her Dangerous Criminal Team in a New Suicide Squad Trailer

"Puppet Masters" is the title of the new trailer release by Warner Bros. for Suicide Squad, the upcoming superhero film directed by David Ayer and based on the DC Comics supervillain team. The trailer features U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) assembling and pulling the strings of her dangerous team to help save world. Suicide Squad is scheduled to wreak havoc in theaters on August 5th, 2016.

It feels good to be bad" Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous, incarcerated Super-Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government's disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren't picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it's every man for himself?

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