After the success of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, many followers have been calling for the discharge of the director’s lower for 2016’s Suicide Squad, which was one other movie that suffered from heavy interference by Warner Brothers. Two years later, Suicide Squad director David Ayer teases that his lower of the movie could lastly see the sunshine of day.
The authentic Suicide Squad film was broadly thought of a failure upon its launch. In the years that adopted a lot of this was attributed to interference from executives at Warner Bros. and its DC division, with Ayer claiming that the theatrical lower didn’t resemble his authentic imaginative and prescient for the movie. The poor reception of the movie led to Ayer being changed when it got here time for a sequel, with James Gunn writing and directing The Suicide Squad, which premiered in 2021.
Despite his historical past with DC, David Ayer has beforehand said his assist for James Gunn’s Suicide Squad film whereas persevering with to push for his personal lower to lastly come to gentle. Ayer has additionally teased on Twitter that this relationship between the 2 may very well be what will get the Ayer Cut launched:
“I spoke to [Gunn] a while ago. All with patience. He has the right to put together his new universe before visiting the past. Cheer up. Good things are coming,” Ayer wrote on Twitter.
It’s at present unknown when or if the Ayer Cut could be launched. If it does, it would seemingly be categorized beneath the “Elseworlds” banner of movies, which incorporates any initiatives not canon to the primary DC Universe being constructed by James Gunn and Peter Safran. Current initiatives on this class embrace Joker: Folie à Deux and The Batman: Part II.
The way forward for the DC Universe
James Gunn and Peter Safran informed journalists that their imaginative and prescient for the DC Universe contains locked scripts, wiggle room and a unified storyline throughout movie, teleivsion, animation and online game initiatives. The two defined that the DC Universe might deliver again components from earlier DC regimes, that means that their eight-to-year plan will not be a full reboot.
Shazam! Fury of the Gods, The Flash, Blue Beetle and Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom are at present in numerous phases of post-production at Warner Bros. Discovery, with all 4 DC Universe motion pictures slated to hit theaters in 2023. Will the characters from these motion pictures make appearances within the new DCU? Only Gunn and Safran know.
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