Suicide Squad holds a special place for DC fans and those who follow supervillains. Including The Joker, Harley Quinn, Deadshot and a number of iconic supervillains of 12 Vintage Anime To Watch in 2023 and its extensions, Suicide Squad went on from being in the comics to having its own theatrical release. But it had its own share of troubles as David Ayer himself disapproved of a number of elements. Slamming the cut, the writer and director of Suicide Squad, Ayer voiced his opinion in a tweet. The tweet titled ‘My Turn’ had David expressing his views over the comparison between his version of Suicide Squad (2016) and the James Gunn sequel of 2021. With multiple images containing long segments of text, the tweet addressed a number of questions that were being raised on David Ayer, his capability as a writer-director and the movie itself.
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Due to the number of comparisons and criticisms of Ayer’s work, he quoted a critical tweet and replied to it with an explanation of his. He accused the Warner Bros. of recuts from the original version that he had shot. As per the claims, the recutting deprived the movie of a lot of its original elements. Ayer congratulated James Gunn on the brilliance of his movie and appreciated the 2021 sequel as something that gave the franchise the foundation it needed. It is true that Warner Bros. did cut the movie a number of times. Being done by different editors, in the eyes of fans, the cuts definitely didn’t prove to be positive for the Warner Bros.
Ayer reflected on his tough upbringing with his father committing suicide and the hardships of South Los Angeles. He also talked about how he had a problematic past with law. He stated that the work that he had created was amazing. His original work had a lot more to it before it was cut unusually by multiple editors. The #ReleaseTheAyerCut spark had people wondering how good the original theatrical version must have been.
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Ayer stated that he put his life into Suicide Squad and gave the villains an emotional journey of their own. He further stated that his soul resonated with the villains who had been discarded. His response to all the criticisms and scrutiny had the Hollywood polarised. But the move succeeded in putting the spotlight on what Warner Bros. did to the original version created by Ayer. The Warner Bros. had admitted that they had experimented with the work and were proud of the result. Having clearly not gone well with a lot of fans and critics who were waiting for the work, the experiments in Suicide Squad restricted it to a mere 26% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and 5.9 on IMDB.
The audience was left brainstorming when Ayer said that he had stayed quiet about his disagreements with Warner Bros. and that he was not going to speak about them in public. Claiming that him being an old school person is the reason behind it, he kept his mouth shut and was not going to address the personal criticism that he had received.
With the Hollywood divided and the fans clueless about what was in the original movie and why all of it got cut, Ayer thanked the supporters who rooted for him with the #ReleaseTheAyerCut tag. His tweet also included that very few people had watched his original version of the movie. It also read that a lot of claims by people who said that they had watched the movie were false.
Even though DC did not respond to the tag and the wave created by the people to watch the original David Ayer version of the movie, the tweet definitely dragged a number of huge Hollywood entities in the storm. Regardless of how his appreciation of the James Gunn sequel along with its cast and crew involved did succeed in making things sound a bit sweet in the end, David Ayer’s tweet gave life to a huge controversy about what the original version would have been like. To say the least, even with a lot of assumptions being made by people about what happened behind the closed doors, the franchise surely has a big question mark to carry for a long time.
