By It’s well known that filmmaker David Ayer is understandably frustrated with the way his 2016 DC Comics adaptation “Suicide Squad” was gutted by the studio.
Earlier this year, he seemed to take a more upbeat tone that his director’s cut of the film will get a release someday; at one point, DC Studios boss James Gunn reportedly suggested to him the film’s original version “would have its time to be shared”.
That original take was tonally a very different film to what we got, a version which Ayer calls a ‘fully mature edit’ with no radio music drops along with traditional character arcs and a quite different third act.
Ayer recently spoke with Total Film about it and remains confident the Ayer Cut of the film will eventually emerge:
“I think so. I’m going to be hopeful. You know, there are a lot of people that are invested in certain narratives that don’t want it to see the light of day.
So there’s an immense political headwind against it, because if that cut were made public, the cowardliness and the whole just general shittiness of how the film’s been treated, and how the actors have had this great work that they’d done taken away…
That narrative blows up once people see the movie. But it’s coming. Something’s going to happen. Something’s going to be revealed. The truth always comes out. It always comes out.”
Earlier this year, Ayer said that whilst his cut “isn’t perfect,” he says “it is vastly better than the studio hack job” and the typical reaction he gets from those who’ve seen it is “shock [about] how much better it is.”
The current theatrical cut is currently streaming on Netflix.
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