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Jared Leto was “mistreated” and his Joker performance “ripped out of” Suicide Squad says director David Ayer

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David Ayer, the director of Suicide Squad, says that Jared Leto was “mistreated” and his Joker performance was “ripped out of the movie.” Since HBO Max announced that Zack Snyder’s Justice League will be released, a similar fan movement for David Ayer’s Suicide Squad has emerged. His film was changed dramatically from his initial vision, […]

Birds of Prey director Cathy Yan sympathises with David Ayer over Suicide Squad reshoots

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Cathy Yan, the director of Birds of Prey, says she sympathises with David Ayer over the troubled production of Suicide Squad. With the news that Zack Snyder’s Justice League will be made public, other directors in the comic book movie sphere have discussed their own troubled productions. One of these is Suicide Squad director David […]

David Ayer on Suicide Squad reshoots: “Imagine if Joker was reshot and recut because it was too dark”

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David Ayer has recently joined a movement, started by fans of his Suicide Squad film, in hopes of replicating the #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign and convincing Warner Bros. to release the director’s original version of the 2016 DC movie, prior to studio-enforced reshoots and recutting. The filmmaker has been actively discussing ‘The Ayer Cut’ of Suicide Squad […]

X-Men: Dark Phoenix director dismisses the idea of a ‘Kinberg Cut’

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While news was breaking that Zack Snyder was finally getting to release his version of Justice League on HBO Max, and David Ayer began to set the wheels in motion for his own much-maligned DC property rejig of The Suicide Squad, few people appeared to be clamouring for a take-two attempt of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, […]

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 […]

The overwhelming overreaction to Zack Snyder’s Justice League

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Anghus Houvouras on Zack Snyder’s Justice League… Pigs are flying. Hell has frozen over. Dogs and cats living together…. MASS HYSTERIA. Zack Snyder’s Justice League is actually going to happen. The legendary ‘Snyder Cut‘ will be released in 2021 courtesy of HBO Max. Once thought to be nothing more than a fever dream fuelled by […]

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 […]