The Flash Is Set to Appear in Suicide Squad! Here's What Else We Know

The movie is jam-packed with Hollywood A-listers, including Will Smith as Deadshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Jared Leto as the Joker, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, and more.

No official storyline has been released yet, but fans can probably expect the movie to follow the same basic premise from the comic books. To break it down very simply, a group of imprisoned supervillains is rounded up by the United States government to complete dangerous, high-risk missions in exchange for their freedom. With each mission completed, their sentences are gradually reduced, but all are seen as expendable (hence their moniker, "Suicide Squad"). The villains we'll see in the movie are expected to be Harley Quinn, the Joker, Deadshot, Katana, Enchantress, Killer Croc, El Diablo, Boomerang, Slipknot, Monster T, and Rick Flag (the military man charged with keeping them all in line).

Prepare for the squad to explode into a theater near you on Aug. 5.

Harley Quinn is finally getting her live-action film debut after first appearing in 1992's Batman: The Animated Series, and it seems like Ayer is going to do her justice. As a former psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum, Dr. Harleen Quinzel is corrupted by the Joker and turns into Harley Quinn, and the director is intent on showing the audience a solid reason behind her actions. Instead of having her simply appear as a one-dimensional sidekick, Ayer tweeted, "The case of Harley Quinn: Her madness defines her. Is she mad because of WHO she loves or because she loves him so much?"

Don't let the flashiness of Harley Quinn or the Joker fool you — the lesser-known characters (Slipknot, El Diablo) are going to have their big moments, too. Chief among them appears to be Enchantress, who's getting a brand-new origin story. In the comics, she's a normal teenage girl named June Moore who attends a costume party at Terror Castle and is transformed into a black-haired superhero with magical abilities after casually bumping into a demon in a secret passageway (classic Friday night if we've ever heard one). Sadly, June's mind can't take it, she suffers a mental break, and she turns to a life of crime.

Cara Delevingne will take on Enchantress in the film, and the trailer alludes to a twist in June's origin — instead of a costume party, June will be transformed while spelunking in a cave. Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) also can be heard saying she's "possessed by a witch" while assessing their motley crew, so keep that in mind, too.

Ben Affleck was spotted on set in Toronto in June 2015, where he was seen filming some kind of car chase with the Joker and Harley Quinn. More rumors have popped up here and there about his second appearance in the DC Extended Universe, but none have been confirmed.

Ezra Miller will also reprise his role as the Flash. He first (ever-so-briefly) appeared in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.

With a movie this big, it's no surprise that the studio went all out for its soundtrack. Twenty One Pilots were tasked with writing an original song for the film ("Heathens"), and they're joined on the soundtrack by high-profile artists like Lil Wayne, Imagine Dragons, Eminem, Panic! at the Disco, and Skrillex. Although a lot of the tracks aren't yet available, check out the songs we do have access to below: