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A behind-the-scenes shot from an HBO Max featurette reveals that the baby Starros in The Suicide Squad weren’t entirely created in post-production.
WARNING: The following contains spoilers for The Suicide Squad, now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max.
A behind-the-scenes photo from the set of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad reveals that the baby Starros that appear in the film weren’t created entirely by CGI.
HBO Max released a behind-the-scenes featurette titled “The Suicide Squad: The Way of the Gunn,” which showed that the tiny Starros used by Starro the Conqueror to possess the humans in the film were actually masks worn by the actors. However, whether the masks were animatronic, or if the movements were added in post-production, is unclear.
Starro the Conqueror appears in The Suicide Squad as part of an evil plot titled “Project Starfish” that Task Force X is tasked with destroying — or so they think. The supervillain was created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky and first appeared in 1960’s Brave and the Bold #28. Starro is a giant, star-fished-shaped alien whose powers include mind control, regeneration and creating multiple clones of itself, hence the baby Starros in The Suicide Squad, that latch themselves on the face of a nearby organism, allowing Starro to control mass numbers of humans at once. This becomes the climactic battle of The Suicide Squad once Starro is unleashed, taking over the minds of the civilians of Corto Maltese.
In a previous interview, Gunn explained why he chose Starro as one of the film’s major villains, saying that the character is”hilarious because he’s ridiculous.”
“He’s a giant, cerulean blue starfish, but he’s also fucking terrifying,” Gunn said. “When I was a kid I thought that was the scariest thing of all time… and I think that exemplifies what this movie is: it is ridiculous and it’s also terrifying, and serious. So he works really well as the villain of the movie — as one of the villains, actually.”
Written and directed by Gunn, The Suicide Squad is currently in theaters and on HBO Max.
Source: HBO Max
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