James Gunn and David Ayer Have Discussed the Ayer Cut of Suicide Squad

David Ayer directing Margot Robbie in 2016's Suicide Squad.

The same weekend a film mentioning Zack Snyder’s cut of Justice League crossed a billion dollars at the box office, a film that also relates to Snyder’s story had reason to celebrate. David Ayer, the director of 2016's DC film Suicide Squad, said on X that he’s spoken to one of the presidents of DC Films, James Gunn, and Gunn said that Ayer’s version of that film “would have its time to be shared.”

To understand a bit of what that means, when Ayer’s Suicide Squad was released in 2016 (Gunn also made a movie called The Suicide Squad in 2021, which is largely unrelated to this story), much of the talk surrounding it was about how the version in theaters wasn’t the director’s vision. Ayer imagined, and shot, a darker version of the story, but Warner Bros. apparently wanted something lighter and more fun after the tepid release of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Eventually, an amalgamation of the two was created and released. The film was a huge hit but in the subsequent years, Ayer was vocal about his disappointment audiences didn’t get to see his version, which he believed worked better.

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So, what does it mean exactly that Gunn told Ayer the alternate cute “would have its time to be shared”? We do not know but io9 reached out to DC Films for potential comment or clarification and will update this post if or when we hear back.

Some, however, interpreted that quote as Gunn and DC were planning on releasing Ayer’s cut of Suicide Squad before the new DC Universe starts, but that’s not the case. “Silly rumor. Not true,” Ayer tweeted. Either way, it seems like, at some point, in some way, there might be some movement around this thing. And you just know many fans, and even non-fans, out there would watch the Ayer cut of Suicide Squad, even out of curiosity.

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