Suicide Squad got ripped to pieces by the studio says director David Ayer. It’s not hard to believe since I’ve seen the movie and someone definitely murdered it. However we have known for some time that Suicide Squad had some serious meddling from the studio. Essentially the movie that was in theaters was very different from the movie David Ayer set out to make. The director recently spoke about the situation on social media
It was ripped to pieces – I can’t emphasize that enough https://t.co/O40q3Qozy7
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) October 31, 2020
For sure that became a factor – but the reason was BVS got chewed up by the critics, and the success of Deadpool – the studio leadership at the time panicked. Then major elements of my cut were ripped out before I could mature the edit. Then Johns wrote pages I had to reshoot 😔 https://t.co/MNmiXoH1Cc
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) October 31, 2020
As you can see, Ayer then went on to describe the the climate at that time. BvS was not loved by the critics or most of the fans, whereas Deadpool was a tremendous success. Major elements were then removed from Ayer’s cut, with John’s finally rewriting the script and getting him to shoot it.
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It’s pretty clear that Ayer still holds a grudge about what happened. I think I would do to. It’s Ayer’s name that’s on that movie as director and it ends up being nothing like the film he tried to make. That would certainly grind my gears. I guess this is something many filmmakers have felt when dealing with Studios. Then again, sometimes the studio meddling in the past had produced absolute classics. Normally though, it’s best to let that talent do what talent does, and leave the suits to make deals and talk money.
There has been many calls from fans looking to see the Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad. Sadly it seems like there is no desire from either WB, nor Ayer to get back into bed over this movie. For now all we can do is look to the future and The Suicide Squad coming form James Gunn. Given Gunn’s success it seems he was allowed to do what he wanted on this sequel/reboot movie. So far The Suicide Squad looks like tremendous fun, and I cannot wait to see it. Suicide Squad, that’s a movie i’ll gladly never watch again.
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