After the announcement of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, it was only a matter of time before #ReleasetheAyerCut began to trend. That was aided by director of Suicide Squad, David Ayer, who posted a cryptic video of Jared Leto on Twitter. It appeared that the director was teasing a potential Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad, and the hashtag #ReleaseTheAyerCut started trending soon after.
After the hashtag began to trend, Ayer officially confirmed that the Ayer Cut does exist, and not only that, it’s nearing its completion. On Twitter, a fan of the filmmaker directly asked him to verify that the Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad is actually happening, and he then got a reply straight from the man himself. Translated, Ayer’s reply reads:
“Of course it exists. And it is almost complete except for some visual effects”.
Since the release of Suicide Squad back in 2016, Ayer has been vocal in the past about the problems he had in post-production while working on Suicide Squad. Some of those complaints include changes to the film’s central characters, which included plans to feature Jared Leto as the Joker much more prominently in the movie before studio edits had essentially reduced his role to a cameo.
Ayer has also suggested things would have been different for Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn as well, had the studio not intervened in the editing process. Regarding Quinn’s narrative, Ayer stated,
“Sadly her story arc was eviscerated,”
There is no word as to whether or not this version of the film will ever see the light of the day, but it’s fun to theorize the potential of the film if Justice League does well in 2021.
