No sooner had WarnerMedia and HBO Max announced that they were allowing Zack Snyder to complete the Snyder Cut of Justice League than a section of the DC fanbase began calling for similar treatment for David Ayer and his 2016 supervillain team-up Suicide Squad.
Ayer, who had reshoots and changes enforced on him by the studio, was himself quick to get behind the #ReleaseTheAyerCut movement, calling his original cut “fucking amazing” and stating that he would find it “incredibly cathartic” if WB was to release his version of the film.
However, after shutting down any hope of the SnyderVerse continuing post-Zack Snyder’s Justice League, WarnerMedia CEO Ann Sarnoff has confirmed to Variety that “We won’t be developing David Ayer’s cut”, prompting the director to issue the following response on social media:
Why? 🥺 https://t.co/0oJrRv54Av
— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) March 22, 2021
Unlike The Snyder Cut, which cost around $70 million to complete, Ayer’s cut of Suicide Squad is already believed to exist in a finished state, and so it’s perhaps understandable why the director is questioning what appears to be a definitive “no” from WarnerMedia. However, WB also has The Suicide Squad incoming this year, with Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn essentially rebooting the franchise, so it seems the focus here is firmly on the future – for the time being, at least.
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Suicide Squad saw David Ayer (Fury) directing a cast that included Will Smith (Focus) as Deadshot, Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) as The Joker, Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) as Harley Quinn, Jai Courtney (Terminator Genisys) as Captain Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop) as Rick Flag, Viola Davis (The Help) as Amanda Waller, Cara Delevingne (Paper Towns) as Enchantress, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Thor: The Dark World) as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez (Hostel) as El Diablo, Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers) as Slipknot, Jim Parrack (Fury) as Johnny Frost, Ben Affleck (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) as Batman, newcomer Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Common (Selma) as Monster T, Ike Barinholtz (The Mindy Project) as Captain Griggs and Scott Eastwood (The Longest Ride) as Lieutenant ‘GQ’ Edwards.
