The Suicide Squad is less of a straight-up sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 original and more of a reboot that DC’s hoping will relaunch Task Force X in a less divisive way. James Gunn has filled his movie with a host of famous faces playing new anti-villains, too, and it seems the studio is now entertaining the idea of creating some spinoffs around them. In particular, Idris Elba may be getting his own film as his TSS character.

According to a source – Elba is playing Vigilante in Gunn’s movie, something that checks with a previous report from The Weekly Planet Podcast. Furthermore, we’ve been informed that Warner Bros. plans to give Elba his own standalone outing, which would explore the costumed hero’s beginnings.

Specifically, we’ve heard that the origins film would show us how he got himself into prison and became Vigilante. At this stage, it’s unknown which version of the character Elba is playing in TSS, though it’s been speculated that he could be portraying the most recent Vigilante from the comics, Donald Fairchild. What’s more, sources say Storm Reid will be reprising her role of Vigilante’s daughter from TSS in the spinoff as well.

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