Motion pictures are a sophisticated enterprise, and never all of them ever make it to the display screen in fairly the way in which they have been designed. There have been so many questions over time concerning David Ayer’s Suicide Squad and what that film was speculated to be, and but with each new piece of knowledge, we appear to get extra questions than solutions.
Whereas few individuals have ever been prepared to speak about simply what occurred behind the scenes of Suicide Squad, one of many issues that we actually thought we knew was that the massive purpose that the film went via such vital re-editing was check audiences merely didn’t like Ayer’s unique idea. Nevertheless, in a (now deleted) tweet, Ayer claims that’s truly incorrect, as no check viewers ever noticed his lower. The director stated…
Nope. Not true in any respect. I made a drama. Studio needed a comedy. Insanity ensued. My lower was by no means examined or screened for an viewers.
This information does fall in keeping with a few of what we had heard about Suicide Squad. Particularly, the concept that the model of the movie that was recut following the discharge of the “Bohemian Rhapsody” trailer, which was very effectively recieved and was considerably totally different from no matter Ayer had initially produced.
Suicide Squad had adopted the discharge of Batman v Superman: Daybreak of Justice, which each critics and quite a few moviegoers discovered too darkish. Whether or not WB was in search of a extra “enjoyable” film from the beginning or solely after the Daybreak of Justice returns, is unclear. Nevertheless, it appears that evidently Ayer’s model was by no means even allowed to face by itself earlier than it was reconfigured into the movie that we acquired.
Apparently Warner Bros. all the time needed one thing lighter in tone, and when Ayer introduced one thing that wasn’t, that’s when, in his phrases, “insanity ensued.” That half at the very least sounds proper. Suicide Squad would see some mixture of serious reshoots and equally vital re-editing right into a film that, to be honest, audiences did go to see in droves. The film was lambasted by critics, however was a smash hit on the field workplace.
In a lot the identical vein because the “Launch the Snyder Minimize Motion” which noticed followers marketing campaign to see Zack Snyder’s unique imaginative and prescient of Justice League and was profitable, in that we did ultimately get Zack Snyder’s Justice League, followers have needed to see the “Ayer Minimize” of Suicide Squad, if solely to see what that film initially was. Whereas the marketing campaign has by no means actually died, it’s additionally by no means reached fairly the heights of the Snyder Minimize motion, so such a launch appears unlikely.
However truthfully, now I’m extra within the Ayer Minimize than ever earlier than. If no person has ever truly seen it (past, we assume, studio execs) then perhaps the unique idea could be one thing audiences would love. They’ve apparently by no means had the possibility to seek out out.