James Gunn has revealed that a forgotten action game by Goichi Suda inspired Harley Quinn's breakout fight scene in The Suicide Squad.
During an interview with Collider, Gunn discussed the filmmaking process and his vision for the DC movie, revealing he drew inspiration for Harley Quinn's hallway fight from Lollipop Chainsaw, a 2012 hack-and-slash video game he helped to develop. He said he used the game as a visual reference to create the colorful yet gory "Harley-vision" for the sequence.
"I did a video game called Lollipop Chainsaw," Gunn explained, citing the game he worked on with Suda. "I always loved the way that the hearts and beautiful little things came out of people mixed with blood. So, a lot of it goes back to that, the aesthetic of mixing this horrible gore with Harley's starry-eyed way of looking at life and creating Harley-vision basically."
Gunn noted that the video game tribute was present in the first draft of the script and made it right the way through to production, where Gunn and the crew shot the standout scene, which explodes with bright flowers as Quinn charges into a violent rampage through a heavily fortified fortress, providing a memorable fight that blooms with brutality.
Lollipop Chainsaw is a zombie-hunting action title designed by Grasshopper Manufacture from a collaboration between game designer Suda51 and Gunn, who wrote the narrative with Masahiro Yuki. It offers a one-of-a-kind experience, following a cheerleader hero named Juliet Starling who must battle an army of the undead with charm and a chainsaw.
If you want to see the similarities between the game and the movie for yourself, The Suicide Squad is now playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max. IGN scored the supervillain blockbuster a 9/10, calling its showcase of F-list DC villains "nothing short of brilliant," which makes for "a bloody, chaotic ride from start to finish" that is "endlessly shocking and funny."
Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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During an interview with Collider, Gunn discussed the filmmaking process and his vision for the DC movie, revealing he drew inspiration for Harley Quinn's hallway fight from Lollipop Chainsaw, a 2012 hack-and-slash video game he helped to develop. He said he used the game as a visual reference to create the colorful yet gory "Harley-vision" for the sequence.
"I did a video game called Lollipop Chainsaw," Gunn explained, citing the game he worked on with Suda. "I always loved the way that the hearts and beautiful little things came out of people mixed with blood. So, a lot of it goes back to that, the aesthetic of mixing this horrible gore with Harley's starry-eyed way of looking at life and creating Harley-vision basically."
Gunn noted that the video game tribute was present in the first draft of the script and made it right the way through to production, where Gunn and the crew shot the standout scene, which explodes with bright flowers as Quinn charges into a violent rampage through a heavily fortified fortress, providing a memorable fight that blooms with brutality.
Lollipop Chainsaw is a zombie-hunting action title designed by Grasshopper Manufacture from a collaboration between game designer Suda51 and Gunn, who wrote the narrative with Masahiro Yuki. It offers a one-of-a-kind experience, following a cheerleader hero named Juliet Starling who must battle an army of the undead with charm and a chainsaw.
If you want to see the similarities between the game and the movie for yourself, The Suicide Squad is now playing in theaters and streaming on HBO Max. IGN scored the supervillain blockbuster a 9/10, calling its showcase of F-list DC villains "nothing short of brilliant," which makes for "a bloody, chaotic ride from start to finish" that is "endlessly shocking and funny."
Adele Ankers is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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