There’s a shark. With legs. And he just..eats a guy. And that’s but one moment in a trailer that is stuffed full of explosions, profanity and gore.

The first trailer for the upcoming DC team-up film The Suicide Squad dropped Friday and there was a lot going on in the R-rated teaser – and by a lot, we mean the cast is huge.

The Suicide Squad is meant to be a standalone sequel to David Ayer’s unpopular Suicide Squad from 2016, and the new Squad brings back a few of the same supervillains and introduces new ones. A lot of new ones. Viewers should expect many of them to come to violence, considering the R-rating. The cast is so huge, you can be forgiven for not noticing that Will Smith isn’t joining the fun this time around. You will see Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis return, as Col. Rick Flag and Amanda Waller, respectively.

Welcome to hell—a.k.a. Bell Reve, the prison with the highest mortality rate in the US of A. Where the worst supervillains are kept and where they will do anything to get out—even join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X. Today’s do-or-die assignment? Assemble a collection of cons, including Bloodsport (Idris Elba), Peacemaker (John Cena), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney), Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior]), Savant (Michael Rooker), King Shark (voiced by Sylvester Stallone), Blackguard (Pete Davidson), Javelin (Flula Borg), and everyone’s favorite psycho, Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie). Then arm them heavily and drop them (literally) on the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

Official description of The Suicide Squad

Smith was unable to reprise his role as Deadshot in the sequel, so Gunn wrote the Bloodsport character with Elba in mind. Other new cast members (yes, there are more!) include Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmalchian), whose trademark polka-dotted suit is actually a collection of gadgets; Weasel (Sean Gunn), an anthropomorphic weasel (duh); Sol Soria (Alice Braga); T.D.K. (Nathan Fillion); Flo Crawley (Tinashe Kajese); Bloodsport’s daughter Tyla (Storm Reid); and Thinker (Peter Capaldi). More on Thinker below.

The humanoid shark guy is King Shark and the trailer suggests he’ll responsible for some of the movie’s goriest moments. We also catch a glimpse of what appears to be Starro, a building-sized starfish-like telepathic alien whose comic counterpart was the first villain to face the Justice League.

John Cena as Peacemaker could be the highlight of the film; his character is getting his own HBO Max spinoff from Gunn, coming out next January. Gunn took on The Suicide Squad after Disney and Marvel dropped him as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 back in 2018, when past controversial tweets surfaced. The day after Gunn agreed to work for Warner Bros. in the DC Extended Universe, Disney had a change of heart and rehired him as the Guardians director.

Gunn is seemingly willing to credit those whose designs make it into his movie. In a post to Twitter, comic book artist Patrick “Patch” Zircher pointed out that The Suicide Squad‘s version of Thinker is based on his 2013 redesign. “Gunn went with my design for the Thinker in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie. Exciting,” Zircher wrote. “Also 99% chance my name won’t be in the credits.” But DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee replied, “You are. 100%,” prompting a thank you tweet from Zircher.

Clifford DeVoe/Thinker was originally created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Everett E. Hibbard, with the character first appearing in 1943’s All-Flash #12. However, it was writer Matt Kindt and artist Zircher who brought the character to DC’s Prime Earth continuity, using Zircher’s redesign, with 2013’s Suicide Squad #24, which was published under the New 52 banner. 

The Suicide Squad opens in theaters and on HBO Max on August 6th.