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The Suicide Squad’s Thinker as played by Peter Capaldi went through some minor redesign after the initial screen test for the character.
Peter Capaldi’s metahuman scientist The Thinker was one of The Suicide Squad’s creepier looking characters, and writer/director James Gunn recently shared a photo showing Gaius Grieves’ early look.
Gunn tweeted the photo from Capaldi’s first screen test. “The careful observer will notice that the wires & the size & shape of some of Thinker’s ‘upgrades’ are different from our final version in The Suicide Squad,” Gunn said. The image shows Capaldi in full Thinker makeup, and the look at first glance is largely consistent with the character’s eventual onscreen appearance. Closer observation, though, does reveal some subtle differences in the look and placement of the metal electrodes around Grieves’ enlarged cranium.
“They were made mostly out of metal,” Gunn confirmed in a subsequent tweet, “But I don’t think they’d impale him if he fell. Also Peter is very graceful & it’s impossible to knock him over.”
In The Suicide Squad, The Thinker was one of the main players in the development of Project Starfish, in the employ of Corto Maltese dictator General Presidente Luna. Task Force X later captured Grieves and forced him to help them against Luna. He aided the team in their mission, but was later killed by an enraged Starro after escaping imprisonment.
Capaldi’s look for the character is similar to that of the latest — but unnamed — incarnation introduced by DC Comics in 2013 by Matt Kindt and Patrick Zircher in Suicide Squad #25 as part of the publisher’s “Forever Evil” event.
Written and directed by James Gunn, The Suicide Squad is set to release on DVD and Blu-ray on Oct. 28.
Source: Twitter
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