How did Suicide Squad turn out so awful? Ayer made the movie Fury, right? That movie is fucking amazing. More "spinless execs" like Justice league?
Ayer finished his cut, WB tested his version in front of audiences but then decided they wanted it to be Guardians of the Galaxy and had a trailer company edit it and turn it into the movie released.
His cut was closer in tone to the SDCC trailer:
The difference between his cut and the theatrical is the tone and there is A LOT more Joker, the Joker/Harley relationship in his cut is very blatantly abusive, and there's a whole action scene in the subway with the squad vs the Joker.
Again, it's like 99% complete as the public test screening only had a couple shots without final effects. Would cost them nothing to put it on HBO Max.