After years of letting Marvel own the lion’s share of the superhero-movie marketplace, Warner Bros. is finally stepping up its efforts in 2016, and Suicide Squad is the opening salvo in the studio’s ambitious plan to build a bigger cinematic universe out of its DC Comics properties. Offering a villainous flipside to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, this David Ayer-directed feature assembles some of DC’s dirtiest rogues—including Will Smith as the assassin Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, and Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn—and makes them forced participants in a black-ops government program. It’s scheduled to arrive as we’re rounding the bend in a year with no fewer than eight comics-inspired films. But with a cast like this, who cares about a saturated marketplace?