The DCEU is behind us, however details about the earlier shared universe continues to be trickling out. Followers are wanting ahead to co-CEO James Gunn’s plans for the brand new DCU, beginning with Gods and Monsters, though there’s nonetheless some discourse about earlier tasks like David Ayer’s Suicide Squad. And whereas the director defined how Batman and Deadshot’s scene was imagined to go, I am nonetheless not satisfied.
Moviegoers who spent years watching the DC films so as will recall the fan pleasure about Batman showing in Suicide Squad (which is streaming with a HBO Max subscription). He had two transient scenes, arresting Harley Quinn and Deadshot previous to the film’s important storyline. However the latter scene was initially longer, and Ayer took to Twitter to disclose his unique plans. Within the filmmaker’s phrases:
Want you may see the scene as shot. There’s rather a lot happening. It’s wealthy and emotional. Maybe by arresting her father, Batman believes he’s sparing her worse trauma. Or maybe along with his personal traumatic previous Batman is doing what many harm individuals do: he’s leaving wreckage behind him with out being conscious.
For years now David Ayer cited studio interference messing up his unique imaginative and prescient for Suicide Squad. He even went as far as to say Joker and Harley’s story was eviscerated. And it seems like he needed far more display time shared between Batman and Will Smith’s Deadshot.
After the Zack Snyder’s Justice League was inexperienced lit and accomplished, some followers referred to as for Suicide Squad to get the Ayer Minimize, due to this fact permitting the filmmaker’s imaginative and prescient to lastly be realized. Sadly, there’s been no indication of this taking place. Later in the identical tweet, the Coaching Day director went on to share what he needed to perform with Batman and Deadshot’s scene, providing:
Batman has all the time operated on the edge. Does he battle and arrest unhealthy guys to guard his wounded internal little one? Is he simply reenacting the previous from an unhealthy place? I like this type of debate.
Whereas I respect Ayer’s imaginative and prescient, I am undecided I might have appreciated to see this sequence work out in such a matter. Ben Affleck introduced a jaded and murderous Bruce Wayne to the display in Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice, however the character was modified by that have and was a extra hopeful hero in future DC films. That features saving Harley Quinn from drowning earlier than her arrest, in addition to the occasions of each Justice League films.
The ethical query posed by Ayer is attention-grabbing, however I feel it might have taken away from the redemption arc that was began for Batfleck post-Daybreak of Justice. As an alternative, I feel this kind of scene would work higher in a venture like The Batman, which is targeted on Bruce Wayne and the darker aspect of being Gotham’s Protector.
Suicide Squad is streaming on HBO Max now, and the following DCU film hitting theaters is Supergirl on June twenty sixth as a part of the 2026 film launch listing.