{"id":45229,"date":"2018-11-26T14:58:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=45229"},"modified":"2018-11-26T14:58:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T19:58:45","slug":"original-version-suicide-squad-justice-league-steppenwolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/26\/original-version-suicide-squad-justice-league-steppenwolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Original Version Of SUICIDE SQUAD Featured JUSTICE LEAGUE Villain Steppenwolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/steppenwolf-justice-league.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/steppenwolf-justice-league.jpg\" alt=\"steppenwolf-justice-league\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/steppenwolf-justice-league.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/steppenwolf-justice-league-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s common knowledge that David Ayer&#8217;s 2016 <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong> went through an extensive period of reshoots months after principal photography had ended. But it wasn&#8217;t known until this weekend exactly how extensive those reshoots were. It turns out that the film had an entirely different main villain and army of henchmen than we saw on the big screen. And that main villain? The New God Steppenwolf, whom we did see the following year in Zack Snyder&#8217;s <strong>Justice League<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation came to light this past weekend, when a fan tweeted out two pieces of concept art from <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong>&#8216;s Conceptual Artist Christian Lorenz Scheurer, noting that the art shows Steppenwolf, his army of Parademons, the demon-like shock troopers of Steppenwolf&#8217;s father Darkseid and boomtubes, the teleporter-like technology used by the New Gods to transport themselves between worlds.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">Boom tube <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReleaseTheSnyderCut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReleaseTheSnyderCut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ReleaseTheAyerCut?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ReleaseTheAyerCut<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wbpictures?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wbpictures<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y6Ca2EoWA9\">pic.twitter.com\/Y6Ca2EoWA9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Richard Bullivant (@BullyBullivant) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BullyBullivant\/status\/1066481016129445888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The images had actually been <a href=\"https:\/\/geeks.media\/from-boom-tubes-to-parademons-suicide-squad-concept-art-hints-at-what-could-have-been\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first published<\/a> a year ago, but in response to the tweets this weekend, Ayer hopped on to Twitter to confirm that yes, Steppenwolf had originally been intended to be his film\u2019s main villain. He also explained how the film&#8217;s story was originally supposed to go and how the removal of Steppenwolf, the parademons and the Mother Box changed what we saw in the final, released version.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is right. Enchantress was under the control of a mother box and Steppenwolfe was prepping an invasion with a boom tube. Had to lose that then the JL story arcs evolved. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pSAag9rpZq\">https:\/\/t.co\/pSAag9rpZq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAyerMovies\/status\/1066495270702145536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qst\" dir=\"ltr\">Yep <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6aZ9ckKLz\">https:\/\/t.co\/N6aZ9ckKLz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAyerMovies\/status\/1066514949327843328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exactly \u2014 Steppenwolf was the original boss fight. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p3lgrU77LB\">https:\/\/t.co\/p3lgrU77LB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAyerMovies\/status\/1066515202261213184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time that the director has hinted at changes that were made to Suicide Squad as the film was being made. Earlier in the year, Ayer explained how a plotline for Harley Quinn was drastically altered from what he had originally intended.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After Joker dropped HQ from the help and crashed, Enchantress made a deal with him. He was going to take Harley home and be \u201cKing of Gotham\u201d Harley stood up to him and refused to betray her new friends. The Squad turned on him and he escaped. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/unnOewEYBQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/unnOewEYBQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidAyerMovies\/status\/977549416008581121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is readily apparent from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/21\/suicide-squad-extended-cut-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extended cut of the film released on home video<\/a> that the <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong> reshoots had made some substantial changes to some elements and character arcs in the film. That much was obvious from. But where a normal reshoot period might be budgeted at anywhere between $6 and $10 million, the <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong> reshoots reportedly cost closer to $20 to $22 million. This obviously suggests that a larger part of the movie than normal was being restructured and we now know that it is because of the removal of Steppenwolf.<\/p>\n<p>While it is easy to understand that Warners would perhaps not want to use Steppenwolf as a villain in two films in a row, the question becomes why was Ayer allowed to use Steppenwolf in the first place and why was this permission revoked?<\/p>\n<p>To try and figure this out, we need to take a look at the timeline of not just <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong>&#8216;s production but for <strong>Justice League<\/strong> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Ayer was hired by Warner Brothers for <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong> in September 2014 and had to hit the ground running as he was also writing the film and had only six weeks to complete his work there in order to meet a tight production schedule with an unmovable release date for the film. Prior to Ayer\u2019s hiring, <strong>Man Of Steel<\/strong> screenwriter David S Goyer had been brought on to draft <strong>Justice League<\/strong> in June 2013. Thirteen months later, in July 2014, it was announced that Chris Terrio was coming on to do some rewrites.<\/p>\n<p>Now, presumably, Ayer was hired in part based on a story he pitched to the studio, a story that included the use of Steppenwolf, parademons and boom tubes. So were these elements also a part of the <strong>Justice League<\/strong> script that Goyer and Terrio had already been working on? If so, why was Ayer allowed access to them as well for <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong>? The only other possibility is that at some point <strong>Justice League<\/strong> underwent a massive change in its story and Snyder, who probably had a lot more power at the studio than Ayer did, could conceivably have demanded the use of Steppenwolf, et al, leaving Ayer in the lurch.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this latest reveal throws a bit more light on the seemingly creative chaos behind the scenes at Warner brothers and their attempts to create their own interlocking superhero film franchise. This kind of thing could have been avoided by having a stronger, overall creative vision for the franchise and the guts to stick with it. <strong>Justice League<\/strong> was already under scrutiny from studio executives who wanted a somewhat lighter film after <strong>Superman V Batman<\/strong> received criticism for its darker tone. And it sounds as if in the scramble to achieve that course correction, a major rewrite happened on the film, with <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong>&#8216;s own storyline being an unintended casualty.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe not-so-coincidentally, director Gavin O&#8217;Connor&#8217;s plans for a potential <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong> sequel were reportedly scuttled for being too similar to the storyline for <strong>Birds Of Prey (Or The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn)<\/strong>, which is about to go into production in a couple of months. More of the same issue of developing multiple too similar ideas? At least O&#8217;Connor wasn&#8217;t deep into production before Warners decided that things needed to go in a different direction.<\/p>\n<p>On the bright side though, James Gunn looks to be writing and possibly directing the next <strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong> film and I have a feeling that the studio won&#8217;t be so quick to impose last minute changes on him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Director David Ayer takes to Twitter to reveal a few things about the maligned comic book adaptation that sheds new light on Warner Brothers management of their whole DCEU franchise.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/26\/original-version-suicide-squad-justice-league-steppenwolf\/\" title=\"Original Version Of SUICIDE SQUAD Featured JUSTICE LEAGUE Villain Steppenwolf\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2725,1057],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45229","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-david-ayer","9":"tag-suicide-squad"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45229"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=45229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}