http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/03/31/suicide-squad-reshoots-bode-well-for-the-dc-movieverse

A couple of weeks ago I spoke with an excellent source who told me something surprising: the trailer for Suicide Squad, the one with the Queen song, did not represent the film as it then existed. "Every joke in the movie is in that trailer," this source told me. The enormous positive response to the trailer led to Warner Bros requesting reshoots that would alter the tone of the film, bringing in some more of the lightness to which audiences responded. 

I have since spoken to more sources and I understand that the reshoots are happening right now, as recently as this week, and that they're big - tens of millions of dollars big. And they're adding more humor and lightness into the film. 

This, to me, is great news. Hearing that WB is aware that they need to inject some fun into these movies - and that's what I'm hearing is happening here, not that they're inserting jokes left and right but that they're beefing up fun character moments and interactions - can only mean good things for the future of the DC Movieverse after the deadly serious, zero fun Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. 

Justice League begins shooting very, very soon - within a couple of weeks - could this attitude find itself a home on the set of the next Zack Snyder movie? Remember, this is the guy who didn't have Superman and Wonder Woman speak one word to each other - will WB mandate more character interactions? Word is that they're being much more involved this time around...

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Do you like this move by Warner Brothers to make Suicide Squad lighter or would you have preferred the original darker vision?  What could be consequences of studio being involved for future DC projects?

Unless a movie is aimed at kids, reviewers criticising a movie for not being 'fun' is pretty weak journalism.

Don't think they should change the original vision of the movie just to appease critics and get a slightly higher RT score.

To be fair. lack of fun isn't the same as lack of levity.  Going full dark is hard to maintain and very often doesn't produce the best works with the most longevity.  Some do mind, it's just uncommon.  But many classics of recent and olden times -  Lord of the Rings, Citizen Kane, Hamlet (most of Shakespeare really), Ovid's Metamorphoses, etc. feature a balance of tones rather than just hammering one home.  And those clasics that do focus on the dark tone usually have lulls that give you breathing room.  It may be that the pace of the movie doesn't allow for that approach so levity is what they hope will lighten it up a bit.  Also, movies (and games and plays and books and poetry and painting and etc etc) are both art and business.  They want to please the crowd on some level, even artists do :P

April 1st? Doesn't seem like the sort of thing.

Sad it true, it's called Suicide Squad, I expect it to the dark. It's not funny like Deadpool and it's not funny like GotG. It should stand on it's own.

All I know is that some of the Suicide Squad better die. I don't expect Deadshot, Harley Quinn or Joker to die, but everyone else should be fair game.

Most of the best "serious" movies do have moments of levity, and that is perfectly fine of course, or even necessary.

My main problem with this is that the writers and director must have felt that they struck a balance already, but have apparently been swayed by the reception of another movie.  Hopefully whatever they add doesn't feel too forced or spoil the pacing of the movie.

Doesn't feel like the right choice. BvS is a mess because of it's terrible screenplay and lack of structure, not precisely because it's "dark and serious". Plus SS is about a group of criminals and psychopaths.

That's annoying, humor is hard to do, especially black humor. Get tarantino on this, he does it really well.
Don't fuck up the tone.

I think it's more in response to the reception of their own trailer which was lighter in tone. I mean, if negativity about seriousness was their concern then Man of Steel being rated lower than Superm Returns (BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA...ahem, sorry, the fact critics actually did that still blows my mind) should have been enough of an indicator. And it's not like Batman vs Superman hasn't done well enough for itself financially. So I really do think it's the trailer reception and not the BvS reception that's driving this.