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WB Gets Suicidal over New Superhero Franchise

Warner Bros. has set up DC Comics' SUICIDE SQUAD for Dan Lin to produce as a potential franchise, according to VARIETY. The series is about a group of jailed supervillians and started life as a DC Comic in 1959 and got its own series in 1987.

Lin (SHERLOCK HOLMES) will produce with Stephen Gilchrist at Lin Pictures. Justin Marks, working now on 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA, will write the script.

A mix of famous and unknown villains, the Suicide Squad is recruited by the government for work too dangerous for superheroes. To form a cohesive unit, the former evil-doers must put aside conflicts and agendas to take on their task.

Lin is a former WB exec who opened his Warner Bros.-based shingle a year ago. He is also a producer on THIS SIDE OF TRUTH and THE BOX and is exec producing TERMINATOR SALVATION and SHORTS.

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