Suicide Squad Director David Ayer Remembers When Audiences Applauded Success, Rather Than Cheering on Failures

The Suicide Squad director says too many individuals are celebrating the failure of movies.

David Ayer needs you to know it is alright to take pleasure in films. Monday afternoon, the filmmaker behind Suicide Squad took to X, the social media platform previously often known as Twitter, to share his ideas on at this time’s cinematic ecosystem. According to Ayer, far too many individuals are applauding the failure of flicks.

“I remember a time before. A time when audiences applauded success. Not cheering on failures. When film meant wonder and magic. Not a means of attack. When movies were enjoyed. Not reverse engineered in hopes of finding ammo to attack,” Ayer wrote on the service.

He added, “I applaud all my colleagues in the industry. I applaud all the people who work in film. I celebrate those with the courage to share a piece of themselves with the World.”

Is the Suicide Squad Ayer Cut getting launched?

After the profitable marketing campaign that introduced forth the discharge of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Ayer has mentioned his director’s lower of Suicide Squad should not be too far behind.

“I think so. I’m going to be hopeful. You know, there are a lot of people that are invested in certain narratives that don’t want it to see the light of day,” the filmmaker advised Total Film journal earlier this month. “So there’s an immense political headwind against it, because if that cut were made public, the cowardliness and the whole just general shittiness of how the film’s been treated, and how the actors have had this great work that they’d done taken away… That narrative blows up once people see the movie. But it’s coming. Something’s going to happen. Something’s going to be revealed. The truth always comes out. It always comes out.” 

The DC Universe formally kicks off with Creature Commandos, which has but to set a launch date, and Superman: Legacy, which enters theaters July 11, 2025. Ayer’s Suicide Squad is presently streaming on Netflix.

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