But as we learned during our time on the Suicide Squad set, Fury didn’t just prove to the studio that Ayer had a comic book blockbuster in him – it convinced him, too.
That was even before the marketing seemed to promise one of the most entertaining movies of the summer, period.
At the time, Ayer was coming off of the critically acclaimed World War II-era drama Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Michael Pena, Shia LaBeouf, and Jon Bernthal as a tightly-knit tank crew.
But the marketing for Squad alone has implied the pairing of the Training Day scribe and DC Comics’ band of misfit villains is a match made in Heaven.