Will Smith on 'Suicide Squad': 'It's a Movie About Bad vs Evil'

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ET has a first look in the background of the up and coming Suicide Squad, including Will Smith, Jared Leto and Margot Robbie.

In the film, a portion of the world's most infamous supervillains are enlisted by the administration to execute hazardous dark operations missions in return for mercy. What makes it unique in relation to other comic book films is that there are, truth be told, no great folks.

Characters incorporate Deadshot (played by Smith), the world's deadliest and most exact marksman, Joker (played by Leto), Batman's main foe, Harley Quinn (played by Robbie), the Joker's insane sidekick and mate, and the sky is the limit from there.

"There's a piece of [Deadshot] that is considering, 'Perhaps I may have made a wrong turn or two in [my] life,'" Smith says in an off camera cut.

The greater part of the on-screen characters appeared to discover something human about their characters, regardless of how merciless, to sympathize with and hook onto.

"I didn't understand that the Joker was 75 years of age - the tale of the Joker," Leto says. "I never thought in a million years that I would have the opportunity to assume a part this way."

Robbie welcomed the opportunity to play a solid female character in a blockbuster activity motion picture.

"Dr. Harleene Quinzell is who Harley Quinn was before she got to be Harley Quinn," says Robbie. "She was working at Arkham Asylum and that is the place she met Joker and succumbed to Joker and afterward conceived out of that was the change into Harley Quinn."

The film is by all accounts the ideal motion picture for any individual who tends to pull for the terrible person, yet it additionally works for the more customary moviegoer, who yearns for good to triumph over insidiousness.

"We kind of arrived on the partition between being an awful person and being insidious," Smith says. "It's not a film about great versus fiendishness, it's a motion picture about terrible versus malicious."

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Former L.A. county sheriff indicted on new federal charges

Lee Baca announces his retirement during a news conference at Los Angeles County Sheriff's headquarters in Monterey Park , California January 7, 2014. 

Previous Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, who recently pulled back his liable supplication to a charge of deceiving government agents in a debasement test, was arraigned on Friday on three new criminal tallies, prosecutors said.

Baca, who hauled out of a supplication concurrence with prosecutors after a judge decided that the prescribed six-month jail term was excessively permissive, could confront up, making it impossible to 20 years in jail if indicted on every one of the three include passed on a U.S. Region Court great jury prosecution.

Those checks incorporate contriving to deter equity, deterrent of equity and deceiving the national government.

"These new charges speak to discipline by this United States Attorney's office for our customer's choice to look for a trial," Baca's lawyer Michael Zweiback said in an announcement.

Both prosecutors and barrier legal advisors refered to the 74-year-old previous lawman's late finding of Alzheimer's sickness in their thinking for looking for a moderately light sentence under the first arrangement.

"While my future and my capacity to guard myself rely on upon my Alzheimer's sickness, I have to set the record straight about me and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on the deceptive parts of the government examination while I am equipped for doing as such," Baca said on the courthouse ventures subsequent to pulling back his request on Monday.

In dismissing the supplication understanding, U.S. Locale Judge Percy Anderson said it downplayed the earnestness of the offense. He set another trial date for Sept. 20.

Baca served as the top chose law authorization official in Los Angeles for a long time before resigning in January 2014 in the midst of a government examination of prisoner misuse and other wrongdoing, including conceal endeavors, at the country's biggest province correctional facility framework.

He conceded in February to a charge of putting forth false expressions to examiners when he affirmed in 2013 that he had no earlier learning of his representatives' endeavors to pester a FBI operator and obstruct a criminal test of his specialization.

In particular, Baca conceded he knew that his appointees wanted to scare the specialist and guided them to "do everything except for put binds" on her, his supplication understanding expressed.

Seventeen others from the sheriff's area of expertise have been sentenced criminal allegations for wrongdoing inside the prison framework, which has a prisoner populace of around 18,000.

Baca's previous second-in-summon was sentenced to five years in jail in June in the wake of being discovered blameworthy of connivance and hindrance of equity.

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Ex-Los Angeles sheriff hit with stiffer corruption charges

This Jan. 7, 2014 file photo shows Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca announces his retirement at a news conference at Sheriff's Headquarters Bureau in Monterey Park, Calif. Federal prosecutors have brought tougher charges against Baca just days after he withdrew his guilty plea in a corruption probe. A grand jury indicted Baca Friday, Aug. 5, 2016 on charges of obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice and lying to federal investigators.

Previous Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca was arraigned Friday on charges of deterring equity and contriving with subordinates to wreck a government examination concerning debasement and beatings in the country's biggest correctional facility framework.

The energizes that convey to 20 years in jail come days after Baca pulled back a blameworthy request to deceiving agents and said he would go to trial to "put some rumors to rest" before he is debilitated by Alzheimer's ailment.

Baca, 74, settled on the choice knowing government prosecutors were liable to bring stiffer charges, yet his legal advisors said he didn't have much decision when arrangements caved in after an elected judge dismisses a supplication bargain as excessively permissive. That assention required close to six months in the slammer.

Guard legal advisor Michael Zweiback said it showed up the judge was looking for quite a long while in jail, and Baca required assurance since his condition has as of now weakened.

"We have a, little window of time that we trust Mr. Baca's life will be typical," he said Monday. "On the off chance that there was a probability that he was going to go past his great years in jail, then he ought to go out and battle."

Baca is currently confronting the first charge of deceiving government powers and new charges of check of equity and connivance to hinder equity.

Resistance legal advisors had foreseen the stiffer charges, and said Friday that they speak to discipline for Baca's choice to go to trial.

Lawyer Nathan Hochman said prosecutors uncovered in court filings that proof is meager to bolster the check body of evidence against Baca.

"On the off chance that you look in the administration's own particular sentencing position on this case, they experience every one of the distinctive activities of charged impediment, and you'll see, highlighted toward the end of every passage, they'll say: 'Baca was not included. Baca did not take an interest,'" Hochman said.

Twenty individuals from the Sheriff's Department have been sentenced in the test that started after delegates found a detainee was a FBI witness gathering proof about social equality misuse and defilement in the correctional facilites.

Baca had denied any contribution in a plan to conceal the source from the FBI in what backstabbers named "Operation Pandora's Box." The detainee was moved to various prisons and recorded under invented names. Appointees scared a FBI operator with the risk of capture at a certain point.

In the supplication assention that has subsequent to been pulled back, Baca recognized interestingly that he had deceived agents and knew about endeavors to foil the examination. Members of the jury won't be informed that he already conceded.

Baca unexpectedly ventured down in January 2014 in the wake of heading the country's biggest sheriff's power for a long time.

His second in summon, Paul Tanaka, who unsuccessfully battled to supplant Baca, was indicted and sentenced to five years for his part in the trick.

The president of the union speaking to sheriff's delegates, which condemned the request bargain as a slap on the wrist while general population officers got stiffer terms, said Baca's discipline ought to be at any rate as unforgiving as Tanaka's.

"Baca realized what was going on, and he propagated and energized the way of life," said George Hofstetter, president of the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs. "At the point when stood up to with the wreckage he had made, Baca faulted his subordinates as opposed to assuming liability as a pioneer ought to."

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North Korea wants to "conquer space" and plant flag on the Moon

North Korea wants to "conquer space" and plant flag on the Moon

North Korea is chipping away at an arrangement to put propelled satellites into space and plant the nation's banner on the moon, in a striking move counter to worldwide authorizations.

A senior authority at North Korea's space office, addressing the Associated Press, said that Pyongyang arrangements to have satellites in circle by 2020 and its banner on the moon inside ten years. He included that global assents the outcast state won't dissuade its desire for its space program.

"Despite the fact that the U.S. what's more, its associates attempt to hinder our space advancement, our aviation researchers will vanquish space and certainly plant the banner of the DPRK on the moon," said Hyon Kwang Il, executive of the logical exploration division of North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration.

North Korea's third-era pioneer Kim Jong-un approved the five-year program, Hyon said, as he keeps on requesting further ballistic rocket tests that heighten pressures with the nation's neighbors. On Wednesday, the North Korean military test-let go its fourth ballistic rocket in two weeks.

"We are wanting to build up the earth perception satellites and to take care of interchanges issues by creating geostationary satellites. Every one of this work will be the premise for the flight to the moon," Hyon said on July 28.

North Korea has become progressively unsettled after the U.S. what's more, South Korea declared that they would introduce a rocket safeguard framework on the Korean Peninsula in response to Pyongyang's proceeded with test. North Korea debilitated a "physical reaction."

The nation routinely issues dangers to its southern neighbor with aggressive talk however once in a while finishes.

North Korea stays secluded in the global group, with neighboring China going about as its exclusive incomplete political associate, and authorizes have harmed its economy, leaving thousands in destitution and Kim's administration not able to subsidize a military of might.

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Kerry to visit Turkey amid strained ties after failed coup

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, reviews the military guard of honor before a meeting with the President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan at the Presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Friday, Aug. 5, 2016. Nursultan arrives in Turkey, becoming the first foreign head of state to visit since the failed coup.

 Former Los Angeles Sheriff Lee Baca was indicted Friday on charges of obstructing justice and conspiring with underlings to derail a federal investigation into corruption and beatings in the nation's largest jail system.

The charges that carry up to 20 years in prison come just days after Baca withdrew a guilty plea to lying to investigators and said he would go to trial to "set the record straight" before he is incapacitated by Alzheimer's disease.

Baca, 74, made the decision knowing federal prosecutors were likely to bring stiffer charges, but his lawyers said he didn't have much choice when negotiations collapsed after a federal judge rejected a plea deal as too lenient. That agreement called for no more than six months behind bars.

Defense lawyer Michael Zweiback said it appeared the judge was seeking several years in prison, and Baca needed certainty because his condition has already started to deteriorate.

"We have a very, very small window of time that we believe Mr. Baca's life will be normal," he said Monday. "If there was a possibility that he was going to go beyond his good years in prison, then he should go out and fight."

Baca is now facing the original charge of lying to federal authorities and new charges of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Defense lawyers had anticipated the stiffer charges, and said Friday that they represent punishment for Baca's decision to go to trial.

Attorney Nathan Hochman said prosecutors revealed in court filings that evidence is very thin to support the obstruction case against Baca.

"If you look in the government's own sentencing position on this case, they go through each one of the different actions of alleged obstruction, and you'll see, highlighted at the end of each paragraph, they'll say: 'Baca was not involved. Baca did not participate,'" Hochman said.

Twenty members of the Sheriff's Department have been convicted in the probe that began after deputies discovered an inmate was an FBI informant gathering evidence about civil rights abuses and corruption in the jails.

Baca had denied any involvement in a scheme to hide the informant from the FBI in what conspirators dubbed "Operation Pandora's Box." The inmate was moved to different jails and listed under fictitious names. Deputies intimidated an FBI agent with the threat of arrest at one point.

In the plea agreement that has since been withdrawn, Baca acknowledged for the first time that he had lied to investigators and was aware of efforts to thwart the investigation. Jurors will not be told that he previously pleaded guilty.

Baca abruptly stepped down in January 2014 after heading the nation's largest sheriff's force for 16 years.

His second in command, Paul Tanaka, who unsuccessfully campaigned to replace Baca, was convicted and sentenced to five years for his role in the conspiracy.

The president of the union representing sheriff's deputies, which criticized the plea deal as a slap on the wrist while rank-and-file officers got stiffer terms, said Baca's punishment should be at least as harsh as Tanaka's.

"Baca knew what was going on, and he perpetuated and encouraged the culture," said George Hofstetter, president of the Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs. "When confronted with the mess he had created, Baca blamed his subordinates instead of taking responsibility as a leader should."

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