--- title: Lord of the Rings Gets the Suicide Squad Treatment: Mashup description: One movie buff has taken footage from The Lord of the Rings, and edited it into a montage that plays off the Suicide Squad style. canonical: https://time.com/4202191/lord-of-the-rings-suicide-squad-mashup-trailer/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-01T16:29:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:31.400Z og:title: Watch Lord of the Rings Get the Suicide Squad Treatment in This Mashup Trailer og:description: "Kick Orc butt" og:url: https://time.com/4202191/lord-of-the-rings-suicide-squad-mashup-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Lord of the Rings Get the Suicide Squad Treatment in This Mashup Trailer twitter:description: "Kick Orc butt" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch _Lord of the Rings_ Get the _Suicide Squad_ Treatment in This Mashup Trailer > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=60824044-b2f2-4869-9f8e-e45c280ebc4b&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 1, 2016 4:29 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 1, 2016 4:29 PM UTC The first official [_Suicide Squad_ trailer](http://time.com/4186403/suicide-squad-first-official-trailer-new-watch/) was released in January and shows the [Joker](http://time.com/4087973/jared-leto-suicide-squad-empire/), [Harley Quinn](http://time.com/4091251/suicide-squad-deadshot-harley-quinn/) and the rest of the villainous team creating chaos as they set out to save the world. Set to the tune of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the preview makes the film look like a rollicking good time. As an added bonus, one movie buff has taken footage from another popular fantasy franchise, [_The_ _Lord of the Rings_](http://time.com/4199539/dominic-monaghandavid-bowies-lord-of-the-rings/), and edited it into a montage that plays off the _Suicide Squad_ trailer’s distinctive style. **Read More:** [Watch the First Official Trailer for _Suicide Squad_ Featuring the ‘Worst Heroes Ever’](http://time.com/4186403/suicide-squad-first-official-trailer-new-watch/) YouTuber [The Unusual Suspect](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkB2UdPzu%5F6n252STTY95Ew)‘s mashup trailer draws on many of the funnier moments from the Middle Earth trilogy to turn the Fellowship of the Ring into the slapsticky Ring Squad, a ragtag group of heroes whose main objective is to “kick Orc butt.” Watch the full video above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4202191/lord-of-the-rings-suicide-squad-mashup-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4202191/lord-of-the-rings-suicide-squad-mashup-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch Lord of the Rings Get the Suicide Squad Treatment in This Mashup Trailer","datePublished":"2016-02-01T16:29:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:31.400Z","description":"\"Kick Orc butt\"","url":"https://time.com/4202191/lord-of-the-rings-suicide-squad-mashup-trailer/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Movie trailers","mashups","Lord of the Rings","Suicide Squad"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4202191/lord-of-the-rings-suicide-squad-mashup-trailer/","name":"Watch Lord of the Rings Get the Suicide Squad Treatment in This Mashup Trailer"}}]}] ```