SUICIDE SQUAD Director David Ayer On Why WB Turned His “Darkish, Soulful Film Into A F*cking Comedy”

Although 2016’s Suicide Squad really carried out fairly properly on the field workplace, critics had been removed from received over by the primary big-screen outing for the Activity Power X crew, and it is nonetheless extensively thought to be one of many worst entries within the DCEU franchise.

It has been properly documented that director David Ayer initially had a really completely different imaginative and prescient for the film, and he has spoken a number of occasions about how Warner Bros. altered the ultimate product virtually past recognition, releasing a wildly inconsistent, bastardized model into theaters.

Throughout a latest look on Jon Bernthal’s Actual Ones podcast, Ayer as soon as once more opened up about his damaging expertise whereas engaged on the film.

The Punisher actor, who Ayer labored with on Fury, requested the filmmaker what essentially the most troublesome time he’s skilled in Hollywood was.

“Hollywood—I inform folks—is like watching somebody you like get [frick]ed by somebody you hate,” defined Ayer. “The large one is Suicide Squad. That shit broke me. That handed me my ass.”

“Come proper off Fury, proper? I had the city in my hand—might’ve accomplished something, and I did do something. And go on this journey with [Suicide Squad]. And the identical factor—genuine, truthful, let’s do all of the rehearsal, let’s actually get in one another’s souls. Let’s create this superb, collaborative factor, proper? After which Deadpool opened, and so they by no means examined Batman v. Superman, so that they had been anticipating a unique outcome after which they received hammered by all of the critics. Then it’s like, ‘Okay, we’re going to show David Ayer’s darkish, soulful film right into a [frick]ing comedy now.’”

The director continues to marketing campaign for the discharge of his “Ayer Reduce” of Suicide Squad, and DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn has reportedly assured him that he’ll get the chance to share his true imaginative and prescient for the film with the world sooner or later.