Chris Pratt: 'Suicide Squad' Had Too Many Characters
by EG
When Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 lands in theaters next month, it will be the 15th official Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. Over the course of those films, Marvel has spent time introducing superheroes, getting fans to care about them, and then doubling down on that excitement by having more and more of the heroes to meet and fight each other. Warner Bros. has tried something similar with their DC Extended Universe, whose latest installment was last year’s Suicide Squad, but the studio hasn’t achieved quite the same level of fan and critical adoration. In a recent press junket interview with i09, Guardians star Chris Pratt described what he saw as the big weakness of Suicide Squad and other DC movies.
“I really like all the Warner Bros. movies,” Pratt said. “I think they’re really cool and I’m not a real tough critic on those movies. But one of the flaws might have been they were introducing too many characters in Suicide Squad. They spent 10 minutes telling us why should we care about these characters, rather than creating trilogies for each character and convincing us to care about the characters.”
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Chris Pratt's most recent big-screen role was alongside Jennifer Lawrence in Passengers.