With the release of The Suicide Squad, Film Twitter has been fill of folks clamoring for the release of the Ayer cut of the 2016 film. Those folks may not like the latest news as producer on the film has come out and revealed that Ayer’s Cut tested pretty much the same as the version that was released to the masses.
During an interview with “The Hollywood Reporter”, producer Charles Roven revealed that both versions of the film tested virtually the same so that’s why the decision was made to combine “the best of both versions.” According to Roven, “they tested exactly the same…we all sat in a room and tried to come up with what would be the best of both versions.” Roven’s full statement stated,
“We tested both versions. They tested exactly the same. Because they tested exactly the same, David and the studio and ourselves, meaning [Richard Suckle] and I and the heads of DC at that time — Jon Berg and Geoff Johns — we all sat in a room and tried to come up with what would be the best of both versions. Obviously, the movie made a really nice piece of change. Audiences liked it enough for us to want to do a sequel. But it definitely wasn’t the exact vision of David, and it definitely wasn’t the exact vision of the studio … That testing process, or what we call bake-off, that is not an unusual process. That happens, more than you might think. But most of the time, there is a clear winner. And usually, everybody agrees, “Well if we are going to do the bake-off, we should really go with the clear winner. Let the audience decide.” In this case, there wasn’t a clear winner. It literally came to the exact same place. They just liked different parts of the movie. Different audiences commented on different parts of the movie they liked better or not. That doesn’t always work to create the best movie, to be honest, it’s an imprecise process.”
It’s safe to say that there will not be a release of the Ayer cut anytime soon.
