SUICIDE SQUAD Director David Ayer Says His Cut Is "Intricate And Emotional" With "Not A Single Radio Song"

SUICIDE SQUAD Director David Ayer Says His Cut Is "Intricate And Emotional" With "Not A Single Radio Song"

On the eve of The Suicide Squad's release in many countries, Suicide Squad director David Ayer has now made his stance on the "Ayer Cut" clear while teasing his original vision for Task Force X.

By JoshWilding - Jul 29, 2021 01:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad faced problems from the very start. The first look at Jared Leto's Joker was met with an overwhelmingly negative response, while someone from inside Hall H later leaked the trailer and forced Warner Bros. to release it weeks, or possibly months, before they originally planned to. 

After the negative response to the Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice's grim tone, the studio panicked and made sweeping changes to David Ayer's 2016 movie. Commissioning multiple cuts of the movie, we eventually ended up with a stylish, albeit underwhelming effort that the filmmaker has claimed was nothing like what he originally had planned for his DC Comics adaptation.

Now, Ayer has issued a lengthy statement about his "Ayer Cut" of Suicide Squad

"I put my life into Suicide Squad," he says. "I made something amazing. My cut is intricate and emotional journey with some bad people who are shit on and discarded (a theme that resonates in my soul). The studio cut is not my movie. Read that again. And my cut is not the 10 week director’s cut – it’s a fully mature edit by Lee Smith standing on the incredible work by John Gilroy."

"It’s all Steven Price’s brilliant score, with not a single radio song in the whole thing," he adds, confirming that the Grammy-nominated soundtrack was not his doing. "It has traditional character arcs, amazing performances, a solid third-act resolution. A handful of people have seen it."

"I never told my side of the story and never will. I’m old school like that. So I kept my mouth shut and took the tsunami of sometimes shocking personal criticism." Ayer concluded by praising James Gunn's work on The Suicide Squad and added that "I will no longer speak publicly on the matter." As a result, it now seems clear that his version will never see the light of day.

Check out Ayer's full statement, and Gunn's response, below:
 

SUICIDE SQUAD Director David Ayer Won't Stop Talking About The Ayer Cut: I Think You Deserve To See It
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RageDriver2401
RageDriver2401 - 7/29/2021, 1:42 PM


Let. It. Go.
VictorAlonzo
VictorAlonzo - 7/29/2021, 3:51 PM
@RageDriver2401 - that was an interesting backstory! THAT is a movie. I went into the first paragraph amd was hoping to read more as I saw the last words in the middle of the sentence.
Santanaonfire
Santanaonfire - 7/29/2021, 6:21 PM
@VictorAlonzo - That was definitely worth reading the whole statement, rather than just the excerpts from the article.
solskulldeath
solskulldeath - 7/30/2021, 1:56 AM
@RageDriver2401 - just read the whole statement and you will understand his backstory. this Ayer guy really messed up his life since he was 4, man.
RageDriver2401
RageDriver2401 - 7/30/2021, 2:23 AM
@solskulldeath - I did, and all that has nothing to do with his movie or releasing his cut. Dude just trying to get sympathy.
firebreather117
firebreather117 - 7/30/2021, 8:02 PM
@RageDriver2401 - take your own advice.
RageDriver2401
RageDriver2401 - 7/31/2021, 12:40 AM
@firebreather117 - what am I holding on to, dear Vengie?
firebreather117
firebreather117 - 7/31/2021, 1:10 PM
@RageDriver2401 - your obsessive hate and vitriol.
BatNips
BatNips - 7/29/2021, 1:43 PM
Release the poopy cut
xfactor
xfactor - 7/29/2021, 1:43 PM
Oh [frick] off
CaptainDC
CaptainDC - 7/29/2021, 1:44 PM
Matador
Matador - 7/30/2021, 5:42 AM
@CaptainDC -

BoW
BoW - 8/1/2021, 5:29 AM
@Matador - You’re so edgy.
Matador
Matador - 8/1/2021, 6:13 AM
@BobbyW -

AtakanKaratas
AtakanKaratas - 7/29/2021, 1:44 PM
Oh for [frick]'s sake, its been 5 years since the damn movie. Ranting on the Twitter like a teenager doesn't help at all. Both WB and most directors they hire are unprofessional hacks at this point.
GeneralZod
GeneralZod - 7/29/2021, 3:10 PM
@AtakanKaratas - "Ranting on the Twitter like a teenager doesn't help at all."

ReverseFlasher
ReverseFlasher - 7/29/2021, 1:44 PM
Yeah no one cares when theres a new, vastly superior version on the horizon… just like the tweet that he replied to implies. Move on bro.
santoanderson
santoanderson - 7/29/2021, 1:45 PM
I don’t want to see an Ayer Cut. The guy had six weeks to write his script before shooting began. He was the one responsible for Leto’s Joker. A longer version of his film is going to have more of the crap audiences hated.
Vanillain
Vanillain - 7/29/2021, 1:47 PM
Doomsday8888
Doomsday8888 - 7/29/2021, 1:47 PM
The F*ck????
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