Idris Elba Wants to Battle Superman as ‘Suicide Squad’ Anti-Hero Bloodsport: ‘It Needs to Happen’

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Antonio Ferme editorIdris Elba is teasing his potential return as the DC Comics assassin Bloodshot.“I would definitely like to tell the Superman story.

There’s no doubt,” Elba tells Variety. “Bloodsport versus Superman. It needs to happen.”The actor was referencing how Bloodsport was sent to prison for putting Superman in the ICU with a kryptonite bullet, a key element of his character’s backstory that’s alluded to in “The Suicide Squad.”Bloodsport was one of the few remaining members of Task Force X that survived the battle against Starro in “The Suicide Squad.” While the film ended with Bloodsport blackmailing Amanda Waller into setting his team free, the assassin’s current whereabouts in the DC cinematic universe remains to be seen.

Variety caught up with Elba at the New York premiere of his new movie “Beast,” which sees the actor face off against a deadly lion.Elba headlines as Dr.

Nate Samuels, a father who takes his two daughters on an African safari following their mother’s death. The family later finds themselves being hunted by an enraged lion bent on revenge for the poachers that killed his pride.“It’s a monster movie, but it’s kind of the anti-monster movie,” writer Ryan Engle told Variety. “You have a unique situation where the hero and the villain, the villain being the lion, share the same desire to protect their family.