Suicide Squad headliners embraced time in Toronto,
Toronto was at the centre of the action during filming of the supervillain movie Suicide Squad last summer
The Batmobile on Yonge St. Rubble and green goo at chic Avenue Rd. and Bloor St. Will Smith at the Art Gallery of Ontario. The movie Suicide Squad and its A-list cast made themselves at home last summer while the movie was being filmed in Toronto. The movie opens Friday.
Here’s where Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie and the rest of the cast of the supervillain action pic
Suicide Squad, opening Friday, were spotted while filming in Toronto last summer. Rappers’ delight Molson Amphitheatre On a break from filming, Smith was photographed backstage at OVO Fest, one arm around Drake, the other around Kanye West. “I am dyin’ to get back on stage!” he wrote on Facebook. Art Crawl Art Gallery of Ontario Smith stopped into the AGO to catch the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibit, where he snapped a shot with curator Magdalyn Asimakis. “Everyone was sneaking in last-minute visits,” the AGO wrote when they shared the photo on Facebook. Crashing in Toronto Yonge St. and College St. Talk about urban decay. Suicide Squad dropped a crashed plane in the centre of Yonge St. north of College last May, complete with chunks of supernaturally green goo. Traffic Stopper Bay St. and Lake Shore Blvd. Total Recall (2011), Crash (1996) and The Incredible Hulk (2008) all filmed in the gloomy underpass below the Gardiner Expressway. Suicide Squad stacked the street with “Midway City” police cars and armoured SWAT vehicles. Bring on the Bat Yonge St. and Gerrard St. A mob turned out when the Batmobile revved onto Yonge St., pursuing the Joker’s purple sports car. It wasn’t just the fans who felt the frenzy. “I’ve made a lot of movies, but when I saw the Batmobile come around the corner, I was like, ‘Ahhhh!’ ” Smith said (or shrieked) during a stop in Toronto on July 26. Dude, Where’s My Helipad? Bay St. and Wellington St. W. The film staged a hybrid helicopter/ bus crash, the helicopter heaped with green gunk, at the Brookfield Place office complex. Squad Central Lake Shore Blvd. E. and Carlaw Ave. When Suicide Squad wasn’t literally stopping traffic, the band of baddies was holed up at the 20-acre Pinewood Toronto Studios. The Secret Subway Bay St. and Bloor St. The Squad assembles in Lower Bay Station, the secret subway stop below Bay Station that has appeared in Total Recall (2011), Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s New York Minute and, most recently, Grimes’ music video for “Kill v. Maim.” Road Warriors Avenue Rd. and Bloor St. The chic shopping corner was rendered an urban eyesore as Suicide
Squad piled up the concrete rubble and hunks of glowing green matter, shadowed by a 6-metre-high towering green screen on Avenue Rd., where CGI surprises were added post-production.