12 Years Later, Joel Kinnaman’s Sci-Fi Flop Officially Gets a Second Chance on Streaming

Published Aug 8, 2026, 11:30 AM EDT

Rohan Naahar is a News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he’ll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He also writes obsessively about the box office, charting the many hits and misses that are released weekly, and how their commercial performance shapes public perception. In his time at Collider, he has also helped drive diversity by writing stories about the multiple Indian film industries, with a goal of introducing audiences to a whole new world of cinema.

Hot off the success of three major series — the fifth season of For All Mankind, Imperfect Women, and Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole — Joel Kinnaman is set to continue this hot streak with TNT’s upcoming High Value Target: The Hunt for Saddam. The limited series debuted its first trailer recently, ahead of a September release. Kinnaman now appears to firmly be in his streaming era, but for a few years around a decade ago, he was tipped to be the next major Hollywood leading man. This was around the same time that Taylor Kitsch and Armie Hammer were positioned as Kinnaman’s close competitors. Kinnaman secured leading roles in two major franchises, but neither of those two attempts panned out the way anyone involved would have liked.

In 2016, he played Rick Flag in David Ayer’s ill-fated Suicide Squad, which was majorly retooled by the studio following the disappointing reception of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Although Suicide Squad was a box-office hit, grossing around $750 million worldwide against a reported budget of $175 million, the movie received poor reviews and caused controversy for its behind-the-scenes troubles. Kinnaman reprised his role in the soft reboot The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn five years later. That movie ended up underperforming at the box office, although it received positive reviews. In 2014, Kinnaman headlined what is arguably his biggest film, which recently saw a streaming viewership spike.

Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.

You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.

You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.

You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.

You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.

You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.

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