Marvel Studios gives James Gunn the SWEETEST gift as he kicks off Suicide Squad 2 filming; Check it out

James Gunn kick-started the filming of Suicide Squad over the weekend. The DCEU movie roped in the Guardians of the Galaxy director when the filmmaker was fired for insensitive tweets he posted years ago resurfaced on social media. While the director was rehired to work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, Gunn will be focusing on wrapping Suicide Squad before he gets back to GotG 3. Gunn took the director's seat to start filming the star-studded film and Marvel Studios made sure he has a memorable first day. 

Marvel productions Kevin Feige, Victoria Alonso, Louis D'Esposito, Mary Livanos, and Jonathan Schwartz put together a special gift for the filmmaker. Gunn took to Instagram and shared a picture of the sweet gift and poured his heart out as he thanked the team at Marvel Studios. What was the gift? Well, the team put together a scrapbook with pictures of their memorable moments together. Gunn confessed the gift moved him to tears. 

"Starting production on #TheSuicideSquad, I received perhaps the coolest and sweetest start-of-production gift ever, along with a note of how excited they are for the movie from Kevin, Lou, Victoria, Mary and Jonathan at @marvelstudios. They made me this incredible scrapbook of our journey so far on #GuardiansoftheGalaxy. It’s a thick tome packed with memories that brought a tear to my eye. As I’ve said so many times, at the end of the day, Marvel and DC fans have a lot more in common than they do not. ," he wrote. 

"I am now and have been for almost all my life, both. Maybe you like one more than the other - that’s cool - but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy them all or that you have to tear the other down. I know that I and my partners at both Marvel and DC believe that what’s good for one studio is generally good for all: spurring each other on daily with heartfelt, spectacular, and innovative entertainment that keeps audiences around the world loving movies based on or inspired by sequential art. #marvel #dc Let’s go, team(s)," he concluded his post. 

Check out the photo below: 

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Suicide Squad 2 will release on August 6, 2021. The film stars Taika Waititi, Peter Capaldi, Idris Elba, John Cena, Storm Reid, Pete Davidson, David Dastmalchian and Daniela Melchior. The new faces will join the OG cast consisting of Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Joel Kinnaman and Jai Courtney. Gunn shared a few photos with a part of the cast on Instagram recently. 

Some of #TheSuicideSquad (and Pom). Many of us are doing weird things in this photo. After a screening of Joker (thanks @wbpictures!)

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