Gavin O’Connor breaks the silence on his suicide 2 Squad and the push of the study for a comedy

Suicide Squad (2016) It was not exactly what the director David Ayer expected. The interference of the study has remodeled the film to have a more “fun” tone after the public rejected Batman V SupermanMeditabonda atmosphere. But what came after could be even more frustrating for fans who hoped in a more rooted sequel.

Before James Gunn entered with his 2021 Suicide, Warrior AND The accountant director Gavin O’Connor He had his vision for Suicide Squad 2And now, he is finally talking about what happened behind the scenes.

In a candid conversation with Collider, O’Connor opened on how much he entered the script before the carpet was pulled out of under him.

“It’s another example of the dysfunction of our sector,” he said. “I had a very specific version. They wanted to do it. I think I was probably three quarters in the script when they brought a new regime and all the DC people with whom I was working had disappeared.

“I was writing on the lot, I had a small bungalow there; my writing partner and I met and wrote every day.”

It was then that the new dc brass, hypothesized to be Walter HamadaHe came to knock.

“There was a knocking on the door, and he was the new president of the DC. He said:” So where are you with the script? “I said” is almost done “and he said” can I read it? “And I said:” Well, you can read it when it is over. ”

“A couple of weeks later, I gave it to him and he said” can you do a comedy? “And I said,” That’s not what I wrote, and this is not the agreement I have with the study. “He wanted me to do it in a comedy, and I was like, that’s fine, I guess I will not work here.”

That was the end of that.

The story of O’Connor would have placed Will SmithThe front and center of Deadshot, focusing on a personal arch. “It was really a father-daughter story with Deadshot and his daughter.”

Despite his difficult reviews, Ayer Suicide Squad He brought a huge $ 749.2 million to the global box office. Warner Bros. would not have abandoned the IP, but when Gunn’s Suicide Launched during the peak of the pandemic, he managed only $ 169 million all over the world, although he has gained much more critical love.

Since then Gunn has eliminated characters like Waller in other projects and launched Commandos creature To expand the strangest corners of the DCU. But for now, that original version of Suicide Squad 2With his gritty, emotional and -free mandates, he is only another victim of Shakeup in the studio.

It is only another moment “what could have been” in the chaotic film sequence of the DC.