David Ayer is continuing with his “Suicide Squad” redemption tour. This time he’s telling The Hollywood Reporter that his director’s cut of the film was an all-timer:
The thing that’s been difficult for me is that I made a great film. I made a great film. The people who have seen my cut have pretty much unanimously said that it’s one of the best comic book movies ever made. If someone who’s seen the cut wants to dispute that, then they can come talk to me.
Around a month ago, Ayer had tweeted that his Director’s Cut “will change the course of history.” Hilarious. Ayer had previously stated that the butchering of his original cut of ‘Suicide Squad’ was “like watching someone you love get fucked by someone you hate”.
If that wasn’t enough, he goes on to criticize today’s superhero movies, but in a way that only further proves that he, probably, still, doesn’t fully understand how to make a great film out of the genre:
A lot of superhero movies these days have been really jokey and really kind of silly. I think we’ve got to go back to the roots where it was always stories about fixing the world, you know. It was always stories about outsiders that have always been rejected by society who, no matter what, have got good hearts and are going to try to fix things.
Holy hell. He actually said that. I get it, a filmmaker shouldn’t have his vision tampered with by greedy studio bigwigs, but does anybody actually buy that Ayer’s cut of “Suicide Squad” will be a great movie?
Ayer also confirms that James Gunn and Warner Bros have been ghosting him: “It’s been radio silent, and I’m done pushing a rock uphill.”
What happened? Ayer was hopeful as recently as December about his cut being released, but recent developments seem to have put a damper on his hopes — “I’m done with DC,” he tweeted out last week.
Ayer’s latest film, “The Beekeeper,” is now in theaters. It holds a 70% on Rotten Tomatoes and 54 on Metacritic. Up next for him is a sequel to his much-maligned Netflix movie “Bright,” which I believe is still in development.
The Spanish-language Oscar hopeful from Los Javis, Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, will now hit theaters October 16, nearly three weeks earlier than planned, before arriving on Netflix December 2.