Suicide Squad 2016 director David Ayer has responded to an internet backlash towards his help for James Gunn’s Superman and its lately launched debut trailer.
Ayer, whose broadly panned Suicide Squad film fashioned part of the now defunct DCEU, had initially taken to X/Twitter to ask followers to not launch the most recent ‘Ayer Cut’ marketing campaign similtaneously Thursday’s Superman trailer launch date.
“I didn’t understand James was dropping Creature Commandos when the final Ayer reduce marketing campaign hit,” Ayer tweeted. “The new Superman trailer is dropping quickly and I do know there’s intentions of one other marketing campaign for my model of Skwad.
“As a movie makers [sic] I wish to help different movie makers. I’m excited to see the trailer and have heard via the rumor mill it’s fairly unbelievable.
“I simply wish to publicly say it might be good to remain far away from Thursday for any campaigning.
“I admire everybody listening to me out. At the tip of the day I’m driving a tiger right here. Just getting in heard [sic] on this. 🙏🏼”
Some of the response to this tweet, significantly from supporters of the Ayer Cut marketing campaign, went overboard, rekindling reminiscences of the notorious Zack Snyder fandom that performed an element within the 2021 launch of the Snyder Cut of Justice League. Ayer, clearly exacerbated by what he’d witnessed on social media final week, introduced he was taking a “step again” from the discourse.
“My Lord,” he tweeted. “If supporting one other movie maker is so contentious, I’m simply misplaced at this level.
“When I used to be a child I had a nightmare childhood. My greatest buddies have been comedian books. They held me and gave me firm when nobody else did.
“Batman spoke to my injured soul. Superman’s optimism was an instance how you can see the world with out darkness.
“I can’t f***ing wait to see Jame’s [sic] trailer. Real discuss. And I can’t wait to see his movie. And completely am certain he crushed it. Because that straightforward optimism of Superman is throughout it. And the little child in me wants that proper now.
“I’m a nasty man for that? So be it.
“I do troll what I can management. And can’t what I can’t. Gonna step again from all this for a second.”
While the ‘launch the Snyder Cut’ on-line marketing campaign did find yourself contributing to Warner Bros.’ choice to make it a actuality, Ayer stated in January that he had formally given up on his marketing campaign to have his director’s reduce of Suicide Squad equally launched.
Cries for the Ayer Cut started after the prolonged Snyder Cut of Justice League was launched in 2021. This model was usually thought-about to be an enchancment upon the much-maligned unique, and Ayer had lengthy maintained that “his model” of Suicide Squad would have the identical consequence. He’d additionally remained optimistic concerning the eventual Ayer Cut launch, even with James Gunn and Peter Safran ditching the DCEU for a contemporary begin.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
