Producer Dan Lin provides an update on the Suicide Squad movie

Following the runaway success of Marvel's The Avengers earlier this year, rival studio Warner Bros. is becoming increasingly keen to exploit its roster of DC Comics characters by developing a superhero team-up of its own. Over the past few months, much of the talk has centred on Warner's proposed Justice League movie, which is said to be looking at a 2015 release where it will go head-to-head with The Avengers 2, while Guillermo del Toro has also spoken about his desire to bring the supernatural characters of the DC Universe to the screen with an adaptation of Justice League Dark entitled Heaven Sent.

However, one potential ensemble movie that looks to be on hold for the foreseeable future is that of Suicide Squad, with producer Dan Lin (Gangster Squad) providing Collider with a brief update on the adaptation, which has been in development at WB for the past couple of years: "[Suicide Squad] has a script from Justin Marks [Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li], but it's on hold right now. I think Warner Bros. wants to finish their A-list stories first and then we'll talk about stories like Suicide Squad."

The original Suicide Squad debuted in The Brave and the Bold in 1959 and revolved around a team of non-powered heroes, while the second incarnation was created in 1987 and features a group of incarcerated supervillains hired by the government to take part in top secret black ops missions. Led by Amanda Waller, the current New 52 line-up includes the likes of Deadshot, El Diablo, King Shark, Harley Quinn, Iceberg and Captain Boomerang.