David Ayer

Despite lackluster reviews, a questionable villain and not enough of the Jared Leto Joker, Suicide Squad is still doing well at the box office and has now passed the $700 million mark. Director David Ayer took to Twitter to thank everybody for Suicide Squad‘s success. @SuicideSquadWB Over $700 million World Wide! #humbled #nowords #thankyou While the

For fans hoping for a Suicide Squad Ultimate Cut, that might not be in the cards.

Following the disappointing theatrical release of Batman Vs. Superman, an extended Ultimate Cut was released, which I felt was a heck of a lot better than the movie version.

With Suicide Squad currently mirroring Batman Vs. Superman over at Rotten Tomatoes with a paltry 27% positive rating (dropping 11% in the past day or two), and it also learned a lot of Jared Leto Joker scenes were cut from the movie, I’ve seen some fans online hoping for a Suicide Squad Ultimate cut.

The reason there may not be a Suicide Squad Ultimate Cut is because the theatrical release of Suicide Squad is director David Ayer’s version. Regarding Batman vs. Superman, Zack Snyder wanted to put out a longer theatrical version, but was turned down by WB brass. 

Ayer filled in Collider that they have “a chunk” of deleted scenes for the Suicide Squad Blu-Ray with “definitely over 10 minutes of material on there.” Ayer continues with confirmation the theatrical version of Suicide Squad is his cut.

“But this cut of the movie is my cut, there’s no sort of parallel universe version of the movie, the released movie is my cut,” Ayer said. “And that’s one of the toughest things about writing, shooting, and directing a film, is you end up with these orphans and you f—ing love them and you think they’d be amazing scenes and do these amazing things but the film is a dictatorship (laughs), not a democracy, and just because something’s cool and charismatic doesn’t mean it gets to survive in the final cut. The flow of the movie is the highest master.”

You can watch one of those cut Jared Leto Joker scenes here.

I’m also going to post a slight spoiler following this image why a Suicide Squad Ultimate cut wouldn’t even work.

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The biggest flaw with the movie is the villain. I can’t see how they can fix that with added scenes. Sure it would be cool to see more of Leto’s Joker (I actually had no problem with his screen time), but I’m guessing it wouldn’t add anything to the story, which overall I felt was extremely lacking. The villain (not the actor who played the role) was awful. Again, just my opinion.

Yesterday saw the early Suicide Squad reviews hit Rotten Tomatoes giving it a dismal rating; actually today the rating is even lower at 32%.

Now word of the problems surrounding the movie is beginning to come out as THR reports on the matter.

It’s said Suicide Squad had “Secret Drama: Rushed Production, Competing Cuts, High Anxiety” with the article going futher in depth:

• One WB exec is quoted as saying “better late than never.”

• Used a director, David Ayer, untested in tentpole movies.

• Too rushed (script was done by Ayer in six weeks).

• Mutiptile and competing cuts of the film in part due to an early test screening as well as reaction to the trailers (needed to be more fun and light, and less somber than Ayer’s version).

• Too much studio intervention (unclear what it means to be the actual director on the movie).

• WB let Ayer pursue his original vision, but Warners set about working on a different cut at the same time working with the company that put out the trailer.

• A source with ties to Suicide Squad says they would have been better off giving Ayer more time to work.

• WB was nervous from the start and became extremely rattled and even more nervous following the reaction to Batman Vs. Superman (which also had editing and cuts issues).

• WB CEO Kevin Tsujihara “was really pissed about damage to the brand,” following the reception to Batman Vs. Superman.

• Mutilple editors.

• Another sources describe the “fraught process”: “a lot of panic and ego instead of calmly addressing the tonal issue.”

• The demands by WB started to bother Ayer: He fired and rehired his management team; WB didn’t pick up his Will Smith Bright movie which went to Netflix with Ayer getting a massive $90 million.

• The article does note Ayer was on board with the process as Ayer and WB released a joint statement: “This was an amazing experience. We did a lot of experimentation and collaboration along the way. But we are both very proud of the result. This is a David Ayer film, and Warners is proud to present it.”

• Suicide Squad needs to make $750-800 million to be a success.

David Ayer also took to Twitter to address the critical reviews stating he’s proud of the movie and did it for the fans.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Synopsis:

It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Supervillains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

It’s learned King Shark almost made it into the Suicide Squad movie.

David Ayer was asked the question on Twitter, “What other characters had you considered including into the Skwad that didn’t quite make the cut?”

With Ayer responding via video (watch below), “So one of the characters I was thinking about for the Squad line-up was actually King Shark, but we realized it would take a lot of work, lot of CG work, I wasn’t quite comfortable having a full CG character. We actually ended up going with Killer Croc who turned out to be the right guy for the job.”

It’s probably a good thing King Shark never made it into Suicide Squad otherwise the character may have never shown up on The Flash. WB put the clamp down on Arrow from using Suicide Squad characters as they thought the brand recognition would get mixed up in the eyes of the fans.

Speaking of King Shark, DC Collectibles also revealed the cool Flash action figure at Comic-Con. Check that out below as well.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Synopsis:

It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Supervillains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

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Director David Ayer has taken to Twitter to offer a tease that ARGUS is involved with the Suicide Squad movie.

Ayer tweeted out an image used for the movie of a government manual which features the ARGUS logo.

ARGUS is a part of Homeland Security that deals with the metahuman threats.

David Ayer also tweeted out that Suicide Squad is officially finished.

“Squad is completed! Finished final mix and coloring. Now it’s off to the lab and then the world. Nothing like it out there. It.Is.a.Beast,” Ayer said.

Earlier also saw it reported that Suicide Squad has a run-time of 1 hour and 40 minutes. After seemingly confirming the run-time with a retweet, David Ayer followed up the tweet stating the reported run-time is inaccurate. 

WB has also launched a new Suicide Squad viral site where fans can create their own skulls. Head on over to squadyourself.suicidesquad.com to check it out.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Synopsis:

It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Supervillains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

Update: Director David Ayer is stating the run-time is not true.

The run-time for Suicide Squad is revealed.

The David Ayer directed movie comes in a lot shorter than Man of Steel and Batman Vs. Superman.

Fandango’s Flixster reveals the Suicide Squad run-time to be 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Man of Steel has a 2 hour and 28 minute run-time, with Batman Vs. Superman coming in at 2 hours and 33 minutes (3 hours for extended version).

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Synopsis:

It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated Supervillains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren’t picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?

Following the critics slamming Batman Vs. Superman, a known pro-Marvel web site came out and said Warner Bros. was adding additional scenes containing humor to Suicide Squad as a result.

Director David Ayer has taken to Twitter to laugh at the notion and says the reshoots are to add in more action.

Jai Courtney, who plays Boomerang, recently said the same.

Watch the new Suicide Squad “Blitz” trailer below.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

David Ayer has taken to Twitter to tweet what appears to be something Suicide Squad related.

The image looks to be a neon sign possibly from a Chinese restaurant or fish market? 

And we see the image also appears to be on fire.

What it means is anybody’s guess. Diablo? 

Maybe we’ll find out more tomorrow when new Suicide Squad footage debuts on the MTV Movie Awards (watch the teaser here).

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Suicide Squad Trailer
 

Check out what director David Ayer had to say in the latest issue of Total Film Magazine about Suicide Squad as well as some images.

In your normal comic-book movie you have the good guy, the hero, and there’s a checklist and you can reverse engineer their actions from any given situation because they’re going to do the right thing. These are bad guys, so they have a lot more options open to them in any given situation. They’re capable of anything, and that’s the fun of this.

What Jared has done is absolutely incredible. When he steps onto the set the world stops. Everything stops. What he’s done is so powerful, so menacing, so palpable, you can feel him. The crew stops working and just watches him. I have to get everybody going again because he’s so fascinating.

What’s interesting to me is how there’s been a lot of perceptions of what this film is because we have been exposed more than other movies. What people think this movie is is not what it is. There’s so much more to come.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Suicide Squad has officially wrapped as director David Ayer posted the following cast image on Twitter letting the news be known.

The cast looks to have celebrated a few days early as images from a wrap party previously hit the net.

Ayer also posted some set images.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Following the Suicide Squad tattoos, director David Ayer has now taken to Twitter to tease the hometown of Hawkman with Midway City.

Ayer posted a pic of the Midway Fire Department.

This is at least the second time images from the set featured Midway City, as previous set pics revealed Midway City Square and police cruisers.

Note: It’s unclear if these Midway City teaser pics reference Hawkman as Midway City is also the home of the Doom Patrol, and one member, Karma, ended up joining the Suicide Squad and meeting his death on his first mission during DC’s “War of the Gods” event.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.

Suicide Squad Trailer
 

We get more from David Ayer in regards to the Suicide Squad movie and Arkham Asylum as the director tweeted an image of his chair with a “City Of Gotham Public Health Services” book, which includes “Arkham.”

Ayer previously tweeted treatment records from Arkham as well.

Suicide Squad officially opens in less than a year.

“Suicide Squad” has an August 5, 2016 release date directed by David Ayer starring Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress, Jai Courtney as Boomerang, Joel Kinnaman as Rick Flag, Viola Davis as Amanda Waller, Adam Beach as Slipknot, Karen Fukuhara as Katana, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Killer Croc, Jay Hernandez as El Diablo, and Scott Eastwood in an unknown role.