There's something terribly wrong with the Suicide Squad. That's always been the pitch, hasn't it? That some of the worst people in the world have been tasked with saving it. Except this time, that uncomfortable setup has leaked out of the fiction and infected the project that contains it. There's something terribly wrong with Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League. Yet its handlers at Rocksteady and Warner Bros. are going to send it out to die anyway.
There's nothing wrong with the pedigree behind the project, of course. Kill The Justice League is co-directed by Sefton Hill, the same man who has been at the heart of every Arkham game Rocksteady has ever made. Yet, watching Suicide Squad's reveal during last month's Sony State of Play, a sinking feeling set in as it became apparent a prestigious and once-innovative studio had second-guessed itself into serious trouble.
