When Batman V Superman was released earlier this year it didn’t just promise an epic clash of the titans, it was also the launch pad for an Extended Universe road-mapped right through to 2020. Things didn’t exactly go to plan. After a critical beat down and toxic word of mouth, BvS made a relatively under whelming $872 million at the box office, well short of the expected billion dollar benchmark, leading many to wonder what DC could do to earn back the goodwill they squandered. The answer was already in the can.

JOKER IN THE PACK?

It’s July 2015 and SFX is at Pinewood Toronto Studios, base of operations for David Ayer’s big-screen Suicide Squad adaptation. The facility’s humongous sound stages are currently home to several of the tailor-made cells for Belle Reve penitentiary’s notorious inmates, as well as a full-size train station entrance modeled on New York’s Penn Station. A massive battle between Task Force X – the super villains forced to fight for their government – and a mysterious, otherworldly threat known as the Eyes of the Adversary is due to be shot here later in the week, but today filming has moved to Buttonville Municipal Airport where the Squad, recently released from prison and freshly implanted with coercive nanite bombs in their necks, are reunited with the gear confiscated when they were thrown in the slammer.