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With calls to “Release the Ayer Cut” picking up steam again, here’s everything we know about David Ayer’s cut of Suicide Squad.
Two things had to happen for calls to “release the Ayer cut” of the widely-panned Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer, to kick up steam again. The first was the release of the long-awaited, definitive Zack Snyder’s Justice League, and the second was the release of James Gunn’s standalone sequel to Ayer’s film, The Suicide Squad, to huge critical success.
With Ayer confirming through a sentimental, eye-opening tweet that his edit of the film exists and revealing that some recent script leaks were all filmed, the calls for his edit of Suicide Squad are at a high. Here’s everything we know about the film.
Suicide Squad’s Early Problems
The Hollywood Reporter released an article in August 2016, days after the release of Suicide Squad, that broke down the goings-on behind the scenes of the film. It was revealed that there were multiple editors being commissioned to make different cuts of the film, a six-week writing period for the script and an ambitiously early release date, all of which created a ticking time bomb for the film. Ayer was forced to choose between competing cuts, and after much deliberation, the studio-made edit with more characters and a pointedly more comedic tone to be more like Deadpool. Suicide Squad then underwent reshoots to match what the studio wanted, and the film that was released in theaters effectively ceased to be Ayer’s.
Zack Snyder’s Justice League
In May 2020, CBR reported that Warner Bros. was discussing the possibility of an Ayer edit after they announced that Zack Snyder’s Justice League would be released in March 2021. Ayer confirmed that the film was mostly completed, sans visual effects, since it was used for an early test screening. These discussions went nowhere, but shortly after, the website Release the Ayer Cut went live. A series of three articles, detailing what went wrong with the theatrical cut, an analysis on the villains used in the film, and the differences between the theatrical and the Ayer edits were released over June 2-6.
A year later, in March 2021, when the first official trailer for The Suicide Squad and Zack Snyder’s Justice League were both released, questions of an Ayer edit arose again. At this time, the CEO of WarnerMedia Studios, Ann Sarnoff, did an interview with Variety where she was asked if there would ever be a release of the Ayer edit of Suicide Squad. By that point, the movement had been making its rounds on the trending pages of Twitter and executives at WarnerMedia knew of the campaign to get it released. But when the question “[w]ill we see David Ayer’s cut of ‘Suicide Squad’?” arose, Sarnoff bluntly replied “[w]e won’t be developing David Ayer’s cut.” It was a rather disappointing, grim note for fans pressing for the Ayer edit to be released, especially after the success of the Zack Snyder’s Justice League campaign.
Recent Developments About David Ayer’s Suicide Squad
Flash forward to July: Ayer took to Twitter in a post titled “My turn…,” where he detailed his childhood hardships and revealed some insight into his Suicide Squad. He effectively disowns the theatrical release in the open letter and critiques Warner Bros. for meddling, stating, “The studio cut is not my movie. Read that again. And my cut is not the 10 week director’s cut — it’s a fully mature edit by Lee Smith standing on the incredible work by John Gilroy. It’s all Steven Price’s brilliant score, with not a single radio song in the whole thing. It has traditional character arcs, amazing performances, a solid third-act resolution. A handful of people have seen it.” This statement invigorated even more interest in an Ayer edit and even garnered a response from Gunn. However, Ayer said in the same post that he would not tell his side of the story and that this is the last he will be speaking on the matter publicly.
On Aug. 14, @RTAyerCutSS then began leaking pages of the script of Suicide Squad as part of their Aug. 13 #ReleaseTheAyerCut trending event. The leaks reveal many scenes not featured in the theatrical cut, including more Joker, Batman and Enchantress possessing Katana. A screencap of Deadshot and Harley kissing was even leaked as well, which Ayer confirmed as part of his version of Suicide Squad. The leaks only stirred up more interest in Ayer’s Cut, but, as of now, WarnerMedia has continued to remain silent on the matter.
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