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Suicide Squad director says ‘The Ayer Cut’ release would be “incredibly cathartic”

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It seems like Zack Snyder’s Justice League coming to HBO Max opened the flood gates for filmmakers wanting to see their original visions, and it seems that David Ayer, director of 2016’s Suicide Squad, is hoping to see his film get the same treatment as Snyder’s much-talked-about cut of Justice League. Recently on Twitter, Ayer […]

Suicide Squad director David Ayer shares new Joker deleted scene image

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Amid renewed interest in his cut of the film following the announcement that Zack Snyder’s Justice League is coming to HBO Max, Suicide Squad director David Ayer has shared a previously unseen image from the original third act of his version of the 2016 DCEU supervillain team-up featuring Jared Leto’s Joker, which shows the Clown […]

Suicide Squad’s David Ayer responds to #ReleaseTheAyerCut fan campaign

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After two and a half years of campaigning Warner Bros. to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut, Zack Snyder fans were overjoyed this week to hear that HBO Max will be bringing the filmmaker’s original cut of Justice League to the streaming service next year. While we’ll finally get to see what Snyder had in store for the DC Extended […]

David Ayer to direct adaptation of Harlan Coben’s Six Years for Netflix

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Having handed over directorial duties on Bright 2 to Louis Leterrier, David Ayer has now added a new Netflix project to his slate in Six Years, an adaptation of the 2018 novel from Harlan Coben (The Stranger). The Amazon blurb for Six Years reads: Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love […]

Suicide Squad director is heartbroken that most of Jared Leto’s Joker work won’t be seen

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David Ayer, the director of Suicide Squad, says that his “heart breaks” for Jared Leto as most of his “magnificent” work as the Joker won’t be seen. It’s fair to say that Jared Leto’s performance as the Joker in David Ayer’s Suicide Squad didn’t live up to most people’s expectations. It’s true though that the […]

Suicide Squad director David Ayer confirms Joker fan theory

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David Ayer, the director of Suicide Squad, has confirmed a fan theory about Jared Leto’s Joker. The first attempt to bring Suicide Squad to the big screen certainly wasn’t a slam dunk, even if it did make some big bucks at the box office. One element fans didn’t respond too well to was Jared Leto’s […]

The Maze Runner screenwriter joins Netflix’s Bright 2

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With screenwriter Evan Spiliotopoulos kicking off production on his directorial debut Shrine, Discussing Film is reporting that The Maze Runner’s T.S. Nowlin has been brought in to co-write the script for Netflix’s Bright sequel. Along with all three instalments of The Maze Runner trilogy, Nowlin’s other screen credits include the sci-fi horror Phoenix Forgotten and […]

David Ayer offers an update on Netflix’s Bright 2

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The original Netflix fantasy film Bright debuted back in 2017 and even though it wasn’t praised critically, the streaming service announced that the film would be getting a sequel. However, more than two years of waiting for the film to enter production, director David Ayer has offered an updated on the upcoming sequel. In an interview […]

David Ayer says he had the opportunity the helm the Suicide Squad sequel

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Director David Ayer has revealed that after directing Suicide Squad back in 2016, he was offered the opportunity to helm the sequel but he decided to pass on the chance. “I had a chance to do it, but I went another way,” Ayer claimed in a recent interview with ComicBook.com after Fox’s presentation at TCA. However, […]