Inside the Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad

"Hollywood is like watching someone you love get fucked by someone you hate." ~That single line explains everything.

I would love to see “The Ayer Cut“ someday, I don’t think it would fix ever issue, but seeing a darker version would be a much more interesting movie

There are some cut scenes of Margot and Jared here on YT, and they are downright chilling. They make the Joker seem like a horror movie villain which is completely appropriate imo, but also explains why the other actors were wary around him. Jared said that Aayer shot more than 40 hours worth of film of him and Margot as Harley and Joker. In the extended cut, the Joker appears on screen for about eleven minutes. So I completely understand why he resents WB and DC. If they hadn't been trying to imitate Marvel, SS 2016 could have been amazing.

Bruh, them developing Harley and Deadshot’s relationship actually would have been interesting to watch considering the hints throughout

So WB wanted Ayer's Suicide Squad to look like Guardians of the Galaxy. Then when they reboot The Suicide Squad, they bring in the very Director of Guardians of the Galaxy. They like it so much, they want him to reboot the entire DCEU as the DCU. The Director of The Suicide Squad then tells the Director of Suicide Squad that his true vision will be released as it should have been. We'll see if Gunn keeps his word.

I think the Ayer version at least sounds quite a bit deeper and more visceral. If it is indeed all he wanted to do, I think it may have been a pretty solid film. The character development sounds better, especially with Harley and Joker. Probably not spectacular, with all the meddling still at hand, but seems like worth a watch!

My favorite of the Jared Leto-Suicide Squad set stories is the one where Viola Davis’ husband told Jared to his face that if he tried any of those stunts on his wife then he would kick his ass on sight. Jared did not mess with Viola not a single time for the duration of that shoot😂

Ayer's original script with parademons could have been a great build up to justice league! The suicide squad win a small battle, but Stepenwolf's arrival is imminent, so the justice league has to come together

A movie titled SUICIDE SQUAD with VILLAINS as protagonists, and an EVIL WITCH as the antagonist and WB was worried that it was too dark and dreary?? What were they expecting??

To this day I have mixed feelings about Leto’s Joker. I feel like if Affleck had gotten his solo film, and in said film there were scenes that explored the history between Affleck’s Batman and Leto’s Joker that Ayer himself mentioned in interviews (the Robin costume shown in BvS, and Joker’s grille which was caused by Batman literally knocking his teeth out with his steel knuckled gloves) that his version of the character might have been much better. It’s unfortunate that we’ll never know now, for either of their respective versions of the character. Not to mention Joe Mangianello’s Deathstroke

If the Ayer cut really releases one day. That would mean there are 3 version of the same movie. Suicide squad (2016) Suicide squad Extended Edition (2016) David’s Ayer Suicide squad (20- -)

I remember seeing the initial teaser trailer and being very excited for the movie. Enchantress looked so creepy and cool, and I was looking forward to seeing Harleen being turned into Harley. Almost everything in this video is what I had wanted to see, more of enchantress and a true depiction of joker and Harley’s toxic relationship.

It's incredible and maddening the way studios still haven't learned not to mess with the creator's vision.

I enjoyed Suicide Squad, but maybe the dark tone would have actually helped it in credits so I can’t wait to see the “Ayer cut” when it hopefully comes out

I can't believe how insane it is to hire a trailer editing company for a major motion picture

I'm sure the Ayer cut would have been better than what we got, but it still sounds like it has many of the same problems that the studio version does- the entire premise of the Squad being assembled for black-ops missions only to spend the rest of the movie hunting their own renegade teammate, Amanda Waller being dangerously incompetent but still presented as a mastermind, "that" version of The Joker, the whole idea of making a Suicide Squad so early in the DCEU timeline in the first place, the DCEU starting off after Jason Todd has been murdered, Deadshot being more of an anti-hero than a proper villain... I'd be mildly interested in seeing it, but it sounds like a film that was flawed from the outset.

I know it could’ve been sooo much better without the studio’s involvement in butchering it. Not award winning but a complete vision from the director. Ayer’s movies all have depth.

I think the main issue was Suicide Squad had too much going on. I think it would've been easier if the premise was "Amanda Waller test her Task Force X by having them hunt down The Batman. As they do however, they come into conflict with Gotham's Clown Prince of Crime and a member of their own team" so the world ending scope is changed for a just crazy enough action film

Thank you for all your hard work!

Wow, great breakdown! They really do need to release this; it sounds much better and unfair that they totally changed Ayer's vision!