On Sunday night at the MTV Movie Awards, DC revealed the third trailer for the much anticipated third movie in their Expanded Universe (and first potentially good one) in “Suicide Squad,” entering theaters this coming August.

Now, the DCEU is kind of a mess. “Man of Steel,” the beast that launched all of this, was mediocre and comically inaccurate. And “Batman v Superman” has it’s plethora of problems: from a bad script, to a bad director, to the many bad reviews (including mine HERE), to losing the top spot at the weekend box office to a Melissa McCarthy movie with a worse Rotten Tomatoes score.

Suffice it to say, “Suicide Squad” has a lot riding on it. And while I’m slightly more cautious about this now than I was before, “Suicide Squad” should begin to right the ship that is the DC Expanded Universe.

Key word: Should.

This third trailer, set to a You Don’t Own Me/Ballroom Blitz medley, initially starts on the wrong foot, implying the squad is a reaction to the emergence of Superman, but the mainly Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) led-trailer quickly gets back on track, offering more glimpses at El Diablo, Killer Croc, Will Smith’s Deadshot, and Jared Leto’s Joker (who is going to be incredible).

The trailer comes amid reports that DC and Warner Brothers have begun reshoots to make the movie “funnier“, in response to the negative reviews of “Batman v Superman” being too dark and brooding. But that wasn’t the issue with “BvS.” Yes, it was too dark and too brooding, but the issue with that film was a bad script with no story, and an even worse director in Zack Snyder, who somehow has still not been fired from the DCEU, with filming on “Justice League: Part One” scheduled to start today.

Starting reshoots on this movie to correct the problems of another movie is nowhere near a good sign, and even though Zack Snyder screwed up an overall lackluster movie that had incredible potential, Warner Brothers needs to remove their hands from the dirt and trust that David Ayer knows how to make “Suicide Squad” a success. I think he will.

“Suicide Squad” comes to US theaters on August 5, 2016.

Trailer (above) via JoBlo Movie Trailers YouTube Page.

Feature Image: International Business Times