Squad Up: Viola Davis Been Amanda Waller

Be clear, with the announcement that Viola Davis is now cast as Amanda “The Wall” Waller in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie shit just got pretty fuck yes. Sure, we saw Angela “Did I give you permission to speak my name?” Basset play her in Green Lantern but we all know Amanda don’t fuck with Green Lantern like that in the comics, so her role wasn’t going to be major here. Yes, Amanda Waller was also portrayed on Smallville (we see you Pam Grier) and her cold all business demeanor (but not her likeness) has been (arguably?) most accurate under Cynthia Addai-Robinson with her portrayal in Arrow. However, what we have here is a big start, Suicide Squad is Amanda Waller’s mother fucking wheelhouse. If I could be so inclined to quote from the album of Beyonce, track 11 verse 8, this movie will have Viola Davis on her…

For those of you that don’t know much about Amanda Waller from DC Comics, the woman who Shoryuken / Dragon uppercuts the glass ceiling with how hard she goes in the paint. Let me give you the run down right quick. This is a woman that runs a squad of villains doing suicide missions in order to get time off for their sentences or pardons (rarely happens), the way she gets shit done with politics, through politics or by passing politics all together would make Theodore Roosevelt get her name tattooed across the belly while shouting out, “Yaasss, Amanda! Yaaasssss”. Waller takes the big stick ideology breaks it over here knee and says, “Let me show you how we goin’ …