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Suicide Squad hasn’t even started filming and it’s already experienced a major casting change. Tom Hardy, who was set to star as Rick Flag, a military lifer who works alongside the team of super villains, has dropped out of the David Ayers-directed film because of scheduling conflicts, reports The Wrap. It looks like producers already have a replacement in mind to join Will Smith, Margo Robbie, and Jared Leto: None other than Jake Gyllenhaal, who already worked with the filmmaker on End of Watch. This isn’t Gyllenhaal’s first brush with a comic book franchise — he nearly replaced Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 2.
In other news…
The sacrifices some make for their art: “It’s important to me as an actor to be able to make a living (but) I’m going to tell you something — I paid more money to my babysitter and my dog walker than I made on Boyhood,” Patricia Arquette revealed in a recent interview. [WENN]
Seven reasons why Empire might be the next Dynasty. [NYP]
Dick Pope on Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science President Cheryl Boone Isaacs’ “Dick Poop” flub: “You know what, I have been called a lot worse in my time. I don’t think twice about anything like that. I am happy to be nominated.” [USA Today]
Ron Howard has recorded new narration for Mitch Hurwitz’s re-edit of season four of Arrested Development. [Twitter]
