A Fan Theory About ‘Suicide Squad’s’ Joker Turned Out to Be True
By George Robbins
Many people can agree that probably the worst entry for the DC Extended Universe was the 2016 film, ‘Suicide Squad.’ What we are discovering even more as of late is the fact that it was meant to be a very different film from the one that we ended up with. A couple of months back, fans received word that the Snyder Director’s Cut of ‘Justice League‘ will be coming out on HBO Max some time early next year. When word of this came out David Ayer, the director of ‘Suicide Squad‘ started revealing on social media that what people expected had happened did happen. This means that Warner Bros., the studio behind the release of the movie, had a lot of interference in the project and basically changed the whole thing.
Ayer let it be known that if he was able to make his own director’s cut for ‘Suicide Squad’ then he would since he has it pretty much almost done. Ayer has said that the only thing he needs to do to finish his cut of the film is add VFX and the film will be ready for a release, so he has been advocating for people to ask the studio for this version to release. Based on the response of the studio in regards to ‘Justice League’ he is hoping that they will relent and allow him to put his vision for the film out to the public. In the meantime, in order to get people on his side and to try and get people more onboard with the film, he has been putting out information on the film’s production.
Whenever a fan asks about the film in some way, he does his best to respond in order to make sure people know exactly what happened when the film was made. For instance, when asked about what he wanted in the film versus what actually made it in, he said that Diablo’s backstory is the only thing to make it in. Much of what he already filmed was thrown to the wayside and reshoots were done by order of the studio in order to make the film more light-hearted. What he had in store for the film was a much darker tone than the one we ended up with and as such it didn’t fit in with the story of the movie. This muddled tone is one of the biggest complaints people had for the film and is one of the reasons it didn’t do well.
Overall, there were a lot of changes to the film that cut out entire parts of the story that Ayer wanted to originally be left in. Of these many things, there was a theory that Joker had replaced Harley with other women while she was locked away in prison and Ayer said that this theory “is not wrong.” This is just one of the things that would have made Joker more interesting as a character; which apparently he was supposed to have a much better story than he did. Many of his scenes, according to Ayer, were cut from the film which was a shame considering how much hype there was for the character. Hopefully he will be able to release his own version of the film in the not too distant future and it ends up being a much better version of what we got originally.