James Gunn Promised That His Version of ‘The Suicide Squad’ Will Be in Theaters
By George Robbins
As of late there has been a lot of different movie news that has been poignant for many of the films currently in production. Not all of the news that we have been hearing about has been news that was well received because it revealed flaws in the movie industry that are becoming more and more apparent. Recently, there have been a lot of discussions about studio interference in the filming of a movie production and how it results in an end product that nobody wants. This has been brought up again in the wake of the announcement that the Zach Snyder Director’s Cut for the Justice League movie will be releasing on HBO Max some time next year. It was a hope of fans that this would end up happening given the proper amount of time and petitioning from the fan base.
Snyder never had the chance to make the movie the way he wanted due to the fact he had to leave the director’s chair to spend time with family following a personal tragedy. As a result, Joss Whedon took over the chair and the production as a whole which resulted in a number of reshoots that changed the movie in its entirety. The reshoots are not entirely Whedon’s fault as it has been reported that WarnerMedia executives reportedly decided that certain aspects of the movie should be changed. They wanted this as they thought that it was more in line with what the audience would respond to better. The end result was a movie that became difficult to follow and wasn’t at all what fans thought the movie would end up being.
The ‘Justice League’ movie was not the only film that was interfered with by WarnerMedia when it came to movies in the DCEU apparently. David Ayer, the director of ‘Suicide Squad’ has already said multiple times recently that the version of the movie that he ended up making was not the one he intended to make. The version of the movie that was released theatrically was, in the end, one that was reshot and redone by Warner executives that were trying to make the movie more appealing to audiences. Of all of the things Ayer wanted left alone in his version of the movie, the only thing he was able to keep in the movie was Diablo’s backstory. Ayer has since said that just like the Snyder Cut he wants to be able to put his own version of his film out there and that he has a version of it almost finished.
These types of changes are nothing new in the industry, but they can take a movie that could have been well-received and turns it into one that people dislike. They tried turning the first ‘Suicide Squad’ movie into a different version of the very successful ‘Deadpool’ movie and it failed because it just didn’t fit into the story that was being told. The tone of the film was one that didn’t feel right and confused audiences which was the exact opposite of what the executives wanted. The director of the new movie ‘The Suicide Squad,’ James Gunn, and the director of ‘Birds of Prey,’ Cathy Yan, agreed that what happened to Ayer should not have happened at all. This is why Gunn recently announced that it would be his version of the film that will end up in theaters, so lets hope that he is telling the truth and that it ends up being the movie many expected the first one to be.