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Jared Leto Teases a Plethora of Joker Deleted Scenes as David Ayer Talks Editing 'Suicide Squad'

HaydnSpurrell HaydnSpurrell With the Joker being heavily publicised for the upcoming film, Jared Leto has been open about his process and his love for the role. The actor has now confirmed that there might be plenty more of the Joker than what we see on the big screen.

“Oh there are a lot of [deleted] scenes, yeah, there are a lot of scenes that didn’t make it to the final film. And hopefully they’ll see the light of day … who knows?”

David Ayer spoke with Collider regarding the deleted scenes, and the director confirmed that there will be a lot of them on the bu-ray release. “We have a chunk, there’s definitely over 10 minutes of material on there.

"But this cut of the movie is my cut, there’s no sort of parallel universe version of the movie, the released movie is my cut. And that’s one of the toughest things about writing, shooting, and directing a film, is you end up with these orphans and you fucking love them and you think they’d be amazing scenes and do these amazing things but the film is a dictatorship (laughs), not a democracy, and just because something’s cool and charismatic doesn’t mean it gets to survive in the final cut.

"The flow of the movie is the highest master.” He goes on to talk about a supposed myth of filmmaking, whereby everything goes according to a tight plan.

“I think there’s a misunderstanding about filmmaking where you can somehow have this crystal ball and understand exactly how everything is going to work together and assemble together. Because remember scripts type word on a page, a black and white page, and when you’re on set you’re dealing with shots and you’re dealing with dailies, and so you have this 7-minute shot and maybe only 10 seconds of that shot is gonna end up in the movie.

"There’s infinite combinations, infinite knock-on effects, and it’s this strange alchemy that happens and things that you thought during the writing phase breaking your back trying to explain and needs three pages to explain it, you realize it works with just a look on camera in the assembly.”

Source: Collider

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