SUICIDE SQUAD Director David Ayer Praises James Gunn for Leading the Charge at DC Studios

Suicide Squad director David Ayer is actually a fan of James Gunn and admires him for what he’s taken on. In a recent post on X, the filmmaker praised Gunn for his decision to lead the charge at DC Studios alongside Peter Safran. He said:

“I absolutely can’t wait to see Gunn’s Superman. I have to say this. Gunn is the bravest man in Hollywood these days. He’s taking charge of the hardest ship to Captain in this industry. We make movies. We are entertainers. Not elected officials leading a nation. Everyone please chill.”

Following the release of 2016’s Suicide Squad, Ayer has been talking about how his original vision of the film was much better than that butchered version that Warner Bros. released. Since then, some DC fans have started a #ReleaseTheAyerCut campaign to try to get Warner Bros. to release Ayer’s original vision of the movie. This is something that Ayer said Gunn told him would eventually be released:

“All I know is my unseen film plays much better than the studio release. The interest in my cut being show seems real and organic. And Gunn told me it would have it’s time to be shared. He absolutely deserves to launch to launch his DC universe without more drama about old projects.”

Ayer previously revealed that his biggest Hollywood heartbreak was Suicide Squad and that making the movie broke him, saying:

“Hollywood — I tell people — is like watching someone you love get f**ked by someone you hate. The big one is ‘Suicide Squad.’ That shit broke me. That handed me my ass.”

He went on to share how everything fell apart for the movie:

“Come right off ‘Fury,’ right? I had the town in my hand — could’ve done anything, and I did do anything, and [I] go on this journey with [‘Suicide Squad’]. And the same thing — authentic, truthful, let’s do all the rehearsal, let’s really get in each other’s souls. Let’s create this amazing, collaborative thing, right? And then ‘Deadpool’ opened, right? And they never tested ‘Batman v. Superman,’ so they were expecting a different result, and then they got hammered by all the critics. Then it’s like, ‘Okay, we’re going to turn David Ayer’s dark, soulful movie into a f**king comedy now.’”

When previously talking about his original cut of the film, the director said:

“All I know is my unseen film plays much better than the studio release. The interest in my cut being show seems real and organic. And Gunn told me it would have it’s time to be shared. He absolutely deserves to launch his DC universe without more drama about old projects. In a way I’m chained to this thing. I’m riding a tiger here and navigating this situation the best I can. Life is a very strange journey.”

Ayer definitely got screwed over with this one, and I hope that one day, for his sake, his original vision for Suicide Squad will be released.