The View From The Mountain

Once upon a time, Warner Brothers released Batman Vs Superman , and while it was a financial hit, the movie took a critical drubbing from both professional critics, as well as the viewing public. Warner Brothers’ executives, running scared, decided that everybody didn’t like BVS because it was “too dark” (apparently missing the fact that the movie just wasn’t very good overall) and thus decided to overhaul Suicide Squad , its other big superhero movie that was coming out later that same year. The studio reportedly took the film away from its director, David Ayer, and had it recut by a firm that normally cuts trailers for movie studios. Hey, what could go wrong? The behind the scenes story of Suicide Squad (which is chronicled in this fascinating article by the Hollywood Reporter) is actually better than the film itself, which is about a group of super villains that are recruited to fight a great evil. Based on the second version of the Suicide Squad that debuted in 1987 under crea...