Despite Popular Belief, ‘Suicide Squad’ Was Not Going to Be R-Rated
By George Robbins
Lately, there has been a ton of different news about movies that are going to be coming out, as well as movies that have already been out for awhile. This is how we’ve ended up with so many discussions as of late about movies that have already been out for a long time now and how they should be different. A majority of these conversations started happening after the release of information about an upcoming directorial cut of a movie that many people have wanted for a couple of years now. That upcoming movie is the ‘Justice League‘ movie that released back in 2017 which we now know will be getting a new cut which will release to the public some time in early 2021.
This upcoming rendition of the ‘Justice League’ movie was spurred on by the fact that fans were not content with the original final product. This stems from the fact that the original film had two different directors because the first one, Zack Snyder, had to step down early on to deal with a family tragedy. After the release of the film, fans believed that the end result was one that was not really in-line with what the director would have wanted. After a lot of complaining from the public, Warner Bros. decided to give Snyder a budget to make his own version of the film which will premiere early next year on their HBO Max streaming service. With this news, many other fans believed that this was not the only movie to be messed with during production.
This theory would be one that is apparently true as the director of the 2016 DC film ‘Suicide Squad,’ David Ayer, confirmed that his movie did not turn out like he wanted it to. Ever since the announcement of the Snyder Cut for ‘Justice League,’ Ayer has been asking fans to petition for a director’s cut of his film. Since then, a lot of different news has come out revealing just how different the film ended up being from its original rendition. Many changes were made after the film was already released which is what Ayer blames for the movie doing so poorly. However, it seems that not every fan theory about the film’s production was true because Ayer revealed recently that, despite fan theories, the movie was never meant to be an R-Rated film.