AMW2010 said:
Now does this look bad... no way... is it confusing AF? ABSOLUTELY!! Is it a reboot? Is it trying to be a rebooting while not trying to be a reboot and ended up being a sequel? Will there be time travel involved? They say it takes place in 1970's? But isn't everything else in the DCEU in like present time? If it's a sequel... how is it set in the past... if it's a reboot, why some of the same cast from the original.... this is just confusing to the average movie goer to the DC world like myself
By my count, there are four characters/actors returning from the original cast, which pretty clearly indicates "sequel," especially when one of them is Margot Robbie/Harley Quinn, who's such a big star and literally just had a second movie in this universe release earlier this year. To me, it seems pretty obvious that this will be the third in that same continuity. Regardless, in this day and age, the line between sequel and "reboot" is already pretty blurred, and I think audiences are accustomed to that. It's a sequel AND a soft "reboot" of sorts. We've long since moved past the audience needing those those definitions to be crystal clear and explained. It's a sequel for sure. What happened in the first movie happened. But because the first one was such a train wreck, and they were able to snag Gunn for a follow-up, who no doubt wanted to put his own spin on things, WB likely thought it best to come at this from a slightly different angle, as I'm sure audiences will be as well.
That, and to echo the above, this
doesn't take place in the '70s. The producer said that in a "It's
Die Hard meets [Whatever]" kind of way (traditionally referred to as a "this meets that"). He was
comparing it to a '70s war film in vibe/tone/etc.
