UPDATE: There may be more to these visits: we’re told the studios plan directors’ cut theatrical releases with red carpets and Q&As, and Ayer is on the list alongside Snyder.
First Zack Snyder. Now David Ayer.
On the same day Snyder posted a selfie from the Warner Bros. lot set to a song called “Home,” Ayer shared his own shot from the lot on his Instagram story: the same WB water tower, this time in black and white.
His soundtrack pick: Oingo Boingo’s “Just Another Day.”
Sure it is.
“Just Another Day”
The song-title game now has two players.
Snyder stood under that tower Wednesday and cued up “Home” while calling the people on the lot amazing.
Ayer followed with the same tower and a deadpan wink of a title, on a day that is anything but just another day for him.
10 Years Of Suicide Squad, And Unseen Footage
Thursday marks the 10-year anniversary of the release of Ayer’s Suicide Squad, and the director celebrated on X with something fans have never seen.
“10 years already. Incredible,” wrote Ayer, posting a raw footage frame of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and Karen Fukuhara’s Katana from the dailies.
The #ReleaseTheAyerCut faithful have been loud all week, including in the comments of Snyder’s own posts, asking him to back the cause for the anniversary.
Fun fact: Ayer’s Suicide Squad in today’s dollars is a billion-dollar movie.
The Ayer Cut Ends With Steppenwolf
Here is why the Ayer Cut matters to the bigger picture.
Ayer’s original version of Suicide Squad famously ended with Zack Snyder’s Steppenwolf and more, tying the film directly into Snyder’s universe before the theatrical version stripped it out.
The Ayer Cut was never just its own cause. It is a missing piece of the SnyderVerse.
And Snyder himself invoked Steppenwolf just weeks ago, teasing “hope rises” with black suit Superman.
Why Ayer Is On The Lot
Ayer has legitimate business at Warner Bros. these days. He is on board WB’s American Blue series as director and executive producer.
But posting the water tower with a wink of a song title, the same day when Snyder did the same, on this anniversary, while dropping unseen Suicide Squad footage across town on X, that is a man who knows exactly what week it is.
Two directors whose cuts were taken away. One lot. Two days.
And every path to restoring any of it runs through the same courtroom, where Governor Newsom is pressuring Rob Bonta to settle the Paramount lawsuit.
Check back, because this one is developing.
