When it comes to David Ayer’s original cut of Suicide Squad he thinks it’s time for a ‘funeral screening.’
Ayer has opened up a bit more about his original cut of Suicide Squad as of late. With him out there promoting his latest film, The Beekeeper, it’s not surprising his best-known film would come up.
Speaking with Variety, Ayer said, “That’s been the toughest part of my career. I made a great movie. I made an amazing film. I’ll go on record. Anyone wants to dispute that: Come look me in the eye.” He went on to add, “To have something I put so much love and so much heart into get taken away, reengineered… you know that Eric Andre meme where he shoots the guy and says, ‘Why’d you do that?’ That’s been like ‘Suicide Squad.’ ‘Why’d you do that?’ I didn’t.”
“Every time a new movie comes out in that space it starts up again,” he continued. “I get attacked for something that I didn’t do. It’s pretty unjust, and at the end of the day, at this point, I get it, it’s corporate America. It’s corporate IP. You know these are multi-billion dollar companies, but I think ripping the guts out of a filmmaker like that is is pretty unfair.”
Asked if he would be open to a one off-screening, he said, “I would love a ‘last rites’ screening. A funeral screening, you know, even just bringing the cast and crew together to show them what they actually made. That that would be fair for everyone.”
From recent comments from Ayer on social media, the director doesn’t seem to believe an eventual release in the same style as Zack Snyder’s Justice League is in the cards for the time being. Replying to a question about a potential release last week, Ayer replied, “Nothing about the situation feels good. Studio has no interest in releasing it. It’s time to run and not look back.”
The Beekeeper opens in theaters on Jan. 12.
