David Ayer has made just a few options since 2016—together with 2017 Netflix fantasy Brilliant—however the one his identify is most related to is one other Will Smith-starring launch: Suicide Squad, which 5 years after its launch obtained a form of sequel/do-over from James Gunn titled The Suicide Squad.
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Lately, most individuals affiliate James Gunn together with his latest enterprise: heading up DC Studios with Peter Safran and plotting the way forward for leisure because it swirls round DC’s comic-book characters, together with Gunn’s personal upcoming Superman: Legacy. However Ayer’s nonetheless speaking about Suicide Squad, normally within the context of his ongoing marketing campaign to have “the Ayer Reduce” of the movie—a model extra adequately representing his inventive imaginative and prescient—launched, one thing Gunn himself kinda, sorta weighed in on just lately.
You possibly can’t blame Ayer for doing his finest to maintain the Ayer Reduce within the information; persistence is, in spite of everything, why we obtained the “Snyder Reduce” of Justice League. In a brand new podcast, he digs a bit of deeper into the story, saying that whereas he was filming Suicide Squad, the response was so optimistic his identify was rumored to be a part of discussions about Warner Bros.’ superhero future.
“Throughout Suicide Squad, when the dailies have been coming in, individuals have been like ‘Oh shit, perhaps Ayer’s going to take over DC,’” Ayer stated on Jon Bernthal’s Actual Ones, by way of IndieWire. “It’s Sport of Thrones in there. The palace politics have been insane.”
The Ayer Reduce (which the director calls “like Schrödinger’s Reduce now. Is it extra legendary to see it or extra legendary to not see it?”) was apparently by no means examined by the studio; in response to Ayer, “everybody” he’s proven it to says “That is the film we needed, why didn’t we get this?”, and laments how the studio turned his “darkish, soulful film” right into a comedy. He additionally provides that he’s prepared to maneuver on and “heal” from the expertise, it doesn’t matter what occurs—however with a flicker of hope as Gunn plans DC’s future, there’s apparently nonetheless an opportunity it would see the sunshine of day.
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