Kevin Smith Loves 'Suicide Squad' Second Trailer

Clerks director Kevin Smith is one of the most outspoken comic book fans out there, even naming his daughter Harley Quinn in honor of the DC Comics villain (played by Margot Robbie in the big screen), and the superfan filmmaker he is, Smith got to watch January's Suicide Squad trailer ahead of everyone else. He loved it.

According to Bleeding Cool, the director and podcast star revealed he's already seen the second trailer for the film that will see Jared Leto's debut as The Joker, and it's as amazing as we've all dreamed.

"[I'll] tell you this much, it's got a lot of footage, song choice is perfect. That's what they're building," Smith said on his Fatman on Batman podcast, in a clip you can watch below. "A moody campaign and like it's not 'This is f**king villains fighting villains and sh*t.' They're building something that people [who] don't really read comics are interested in. I find it very fascinating what they're doing."

Warning: Graphic Language in Video (it IS Kevin Smith after all)

Smith also goes on about how the film's director, David Ayer, has "an eye" for adapting DC material, as Comic Book explains, begging the company to "let him make more DC movies."

Smith has been involved with DC projects on and off for years, and at around the time Tim Burton was involved in a possible Superman movie back in the 1990's (the one that would've starred fellow DC superfan Nicolas Cage), Smith was also brought in to possibly write the screenplay, though he ultimately clashed with DC over artistic differences and the project was eventually shelved after Batman & Robin became a massive box office flop.

Suicide Squad will premiere next summer all over the world, and besides Leto and Robbie, it has an all-star cast including Will Smith, supermodel turned actress Cara Delevingne and Viola Davis. The second trailer will premiere on The CW's half-hour special DC Films Presents: Dawn of the Justice League January 19.